Why can’t it be stacked up normally? I don’t understand.
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a_party_german@hexbear.net 3 weeks ago
https://kingbird.myphotos.cc/packing/squares_in_squares.html
Mathematics has played us for absolute fools
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
bilb@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
You could arrange them that way, but the goal is to find the way to pack the small squares in a way that results in the smallest possible outer square. If you pack them normally, the outer square will be bigger.
avattar@lemmy.sdf.org 3 weeks ago
If you can put the diagonal squares from the 17 solution in a 2-3-2 configuration, I can almost see a pattern. I wonder what other configurations between 17 and 132 have a similar solution?