Inventory015: Best fitting rectangle to a triangle (proposed by Floor van Lamoen; 12/5/01).

Given a Triangle, with interior T, identify the rectangle(s), with interior R, such that the area of the symmetric difference union(T,R) \setminus intersection(T,R) is minimal.
 

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