Post #596065
2026-01-22 17:29 UTC
Fresh start on this this morning, from the little bit of rambling I did last night:
Let's play with the question of how you can divide a square up into n sub-rectangles each of which has sides of a 2:1 ratio. The really simple case is n=2: we'll just fill up a square with two 2:1 rectangles, easy peasy!
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@joshmillard@mastodon.social 2026-01-22 17:30
Reiterating for context: this was put in my head by this nice Numberphile video on the subject, which covers some ground I'll summarize briefly but is a nice watch that talks through the idea well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VZ25tZ9z6uI
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@domotorp@mathstodon.xyz 2026-03-01 05:17
@joshmillard@mastodon.social This was problem 4 (out of 5) on the 2016/17 Hungarian Varga Tamás Mathematical Competition for 7th graders (12-13-year-olds).