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Nederlands How to square a square?
How can you devide a square into smaller square which are all different?
Seems simple. We had seen an old solution from 1956 ...
but still it took us 15 years to find the first few ourselves.
While working on imperfect squares, we expected to find the perfect ones automaticly. Via the perfect rectangles (which algorithm is more accurate for this purpose) we finally did. Hard to believe that there will exist probably infinite solutions! The 110-square is the smallest known, but not proven yet to be the smallest possible. We are quite certain that the smallest possible is at least 104x104, 104 until 109 has not yet been searched completely by us. Unfortunately our algorithm is still much too slow for the larger puzzles (above 130).
110x110 puzzle, 22 squares.
110x110 puzzle, also 22 squares.
110x110 puzzle, met 23 squares.
Mathematicians proved that a solution should exist of at least 21 squares (with only one solution). All other solutions will have 22+ squares.
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