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Tiling Trial II (Posted on 2014-08-06)

A 20x21 rectangular floor needs to be tiled using square tiles that are uncuttable, non-overlapping and having integer sides.

What is the smallest total number of tiles to make this possible?

See The Solution Submitted by K Sengupta

Rating: 5.0000 (1 votes)

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re: Possible spoiler

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(In reply to Possible spoiler by Harry)

Harry's solution joins 6x21 and 14x21 rectangles, each tiled with squares.

Here's a nice display: http://int-e.eu/~bf3/squares/view.html#21,20

Posted by xdog on 2014-08-07 10:26:58

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