• BlueFootedPetey@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    Is this confirmed? Like yea the picture looks legit, but anybody do this with physical blocks or at least something other than ms paint?

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        1 month ago

        I feel like the pixalation on the rotated squares is enough to say this picture is not proof.

        Again I am not saying they are wrong, just that it would be extremely easy make a picture where it looks like all the squares are all the same size.

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      1 month ago

      It is confirmed. I don’t understand it very well, but I think this video is pretty decent at explaining it.

      https://youtu.be/RQH5HBkVtgM

      Mathematicians would be very excited if you could find a better way to pack them such that they can be bigger.

      So it’s not like there is no way to improve it. It’s just that we haven’t found it yet.