Timeline for Dividing a square into 5 equal squares
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| Aug 24, 2010 at 12:49 | comment | added | Cam McLeman | Very nice answer! Will have to remember this next time I teach number theory. | |
| Jul 19, 2010 at 5:47 | vote | accept | sanz | ||
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| Feb 14, 2010 at 17:15 | comment | added | Douglas Zare | With one choice of fundamental domain, it can be the same as TonyK's construction. This shows why that type of construction works for divisions into 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10, or 61 squares, since these are norms of Gaussian integers, but doesn't adapt easily to divisions into 3, 6, 7, 11, or 91 squares, although other constructions work then. | |
| Feb 14, 2010 at 6:10 | comment | added | Darsh Ranjan | I think this is the best answer yet. It is basically computation-free! | |
| Feb 13, 2010 at 18:00 | history | answered | Douglas Zare | CC BY-SA 2.5 |