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[–] 14 points 1 year ago (7 children)

It's important to note that while this seems counterintuitive, it's only the most efficient because the small squares' side length is not a perfect divisor of the large square's.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    What? No. The divisibility of the side lengths have nothing to do with this.

    The problem is what's the smallest square that can contain 17 identical squares. If there were 16 squares it would be simply 4x4.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    this is regardless of that. The meme explains it a bit wierdly, but we start with 17 squares, and try to find most efficient packing, and outer square's size is determined by this packing.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Did you comment this because you think the people here are stupid?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Bro, the people here, like the people everywhere, ARE stupid.

    It's always better to be explicit. I'm one of the stupid people who learned some things reading the comments here and I've got a doctoral degree in aero astro engineering.

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