Squares in Squares

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56 points | by carlos-menezes 1 day ago

4 comments

  • sestep 3 hours ago
    The triangular table view is fascinating. It looks like the periodic table. I wonder if there are number-theoretic lemmas (or at least conjectures?) about what "family" the optimal packing for a given number falls into (like diamond, diagonal strip, two blobs, etc). I didn't see anything when skimming the survey paper linked at the bottom of the site, but I'm sure there's a lot more literature here.
  • gus_massa 1 day ago
    In case you want a challenge, 11 is the smaller that has a solution that has not been proven to be optimal.
  • NooneAtAll3 1 hour ago
    I love 130. "You thought I'm just a 2-wide strip? SIKE, here's 8-degree polynomial!"
  • razorbeamz 2 hours ago
    Looks like Hiroshi Nagamochi did all the boring work.