• 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.