Figure 1: The layout problem: You are given a 16×16 square. You want to fill it with rectangles and triangles. Available rectangles: 2×2, 4×3, 7×5, 16×3.
(8)×
(32),
(18)×
(8),
(288)×
(32). All triangles are right isosceles triangles. For every rectangle with an irrational side, there is a triangle with a hypotenuse that matches that side. For every integral side of a rectangle, there is a triangle one of with a nonhypotenuse side that matches it. So, there may be multiple triangles of 2×2×
(8), 4×4×
(32), 3×3×s
(18), 7×7×
(98), 5×5×
(50), 16×16×
(512), and 12×12×
(288).
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