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'Self-similar and perfect' partitions of planar regions

Definition: A partition of a planar figure into finitely many pieces that are all similar to itself and also mutually non-congruent may be called a self-similar perfect partition. A classical example ...
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Perfect squaring of rectangles

A perfect squaring of a rectangle may be defined as a partition of the rectangle into finitely many squares all of which are mutually non-congruent. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaring_the_square ...
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Cubing the cube - as 'perfectly' as possible

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaring_the_square A perfect cubing of a cube is a partition of the cube into some finite number of smaller cubes that are pair-wise non-congruent. The above page ...
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Squares as sum of squares

For which positive integers n is $n^2$ the sum of precisely n smaller positive squares? Of these n x n squares, which can be actually cut into n smaller squares?
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Tiling a square with rectangles

Is it possible to completely tile a square with different rectangles of integer sides but all with the same area? The original problem, not requiring integer sides for rectangles, was proposed by Joe ...
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Consecutive Integer Squared Square

Is it possible to construct a squared square out of consecutive integer squares? Be it 1,2,3,...n or k,k+1,k+2,...n.