This is a geometric puzzle though it might conceivably also define a special class of Pythagorean triples. A _perfect squared square_ is a square (as a plane figure) partitioned into smaller squares, each of a different size. There are other types of squared squares or squared rectangles that have been studied, see [link](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaring_the_square) Question. Is there a perfect squared square that can be split into two perfect squared squares? That is, could we use the building blocks (smaller squares) that form the given perfect squared square to form two smaller perfect squared squares? Of course if the given perfect squared square has side $c$ and the two smaller ones have sides $a$ and $b$ respectively, then the numbers $a$, $b$, $c$ would form a Pythagorean triple (since the areas of the two smaller squared squares sum up to the area of the given bigger squared squares). Question. Which Pythagorean triples (if any) could be represented in the above form? For some Pythagorean triples $(a,b,c)$ the numbers $(a^2,b^2,c^2)$ seem to sometimes appear as _the sides_ of neighboring smaller squares forming the partition of perfect squared square. For example, for the Pythagorean triple $(3,4,5)$ the squared numbers are $(9,16,25)$ and these appear as _the sides_ of three neighboring squares from the partition of the Lowest-order perfect squared square (same link as above). Could one say anything more about this (an explanation, or a description when it occurs, for which Pythagorean triples $(a,b,c)$)? Interestingly, a simple geometric argument shows that the analogue in three or more dimensions of squaring the square has no solutions, that is one cannot cube a cube into smaller cubes, no two congruent (see same link). One is tempted to make a wild guess that this might have something to do with Fermat's last theorem (however obvious it seems that there could be no actual relation). Incomplete history: Roland Sprague published in 1940 the first simple squared square [link](http://www.squaring.net/history_theory/sprague.html). He used squared rectangles found earlier by Zbigniew Moroń, plus additional squares. Another important early work was by R.L. Brooks, C.A.B. Smith, A.H. Stone and W.T.Tutte [link](http://www.squaring.net/sq/ss/spss/spss.html) who related the problem to electrical networks (graphs).