This week’s Fiddler is about tiling a square with smaller squares. Suppose you have infinitely many 3-by-3 cm tiles and infinitely many 5-by-5 cm tiles. You want to use some of these tiles to precisely cover a square whose side length is a whole number of centimeters. Tiles may not overlap, and they must completely … Continue reading "Tiling squares" The post Tiling squares first appeared on Book Proofs.
