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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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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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Tiling the plane with pairwise non-congruent rational triangles
A rational triangle is one in which all side lengths are rational numbers.
Question: Can we tile the Euclidean plane with rational triangles that are pairwise non-congruent? No further requirements on ...
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A puzzle with magic Egyptian tilings
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I've recently been devising a puzzle that incorporates elements from Egyptian fractions, magic squares, and tilings. The objective of the puzzle is to tessellate a square with sides of ...
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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 ...