• PapaStevesy@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Maybe you couldn’t, I absolutely could. The space just looks smaller because there’s a diagonal square butting into it. Doesn’t matter anyway, making the squares smaller was my original comment that sparked this conversation, so I’m right both ways.

    • my_hat_stinks@programming.dev
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      5 hours ago

      No, you’re not. It’s square packing, this is the optimal arrangement of 17 squares inside another square as far as we’re currently aware with a side length of 4.6756 inner squares. You cannot fit 5 squares in the space of 4.7 squares of the same size.

      It’s also a well-known meme and this is a science meme community.