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Another better lower bound for n=17 square packing

25 pointsby gus_massatoday at 4:50 PM6 commentsview on HN

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doogliustoday at 8:44 PM

Responding to a couple comments here: there is no picture or new arrangement of squares because those are _upper_ bounds for the problem. The best known arrangement, i.e. the best known upper bound, has not changed.

scuppernongtoday at 5:55 PM

Some of these point arrangements superficially resemble Chladni figures (https://chalkdustmagazine.com/regulars/on-the-cover/cover-ch...) coming from the vibrations of a square drum.

Orthogonally, I wonder if these arrangements are generalizable to give lower bounds for N = n^2 + 1

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teddyhtoday at 7:46 PM

None of the images has any squares.

dist-epochtoday at 7:46 PM

The n=17 case is a famous math meme.

But where is the picture for this lower bound packing?

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