[HN Gopher] The Quest to Find Rectangles in a Square ___________________________________________________________________ The Quest to Find Rectangles in a Square Author : gumby Score : 43 points Date : 2023-02-07 13:38 UTC (9 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.nytimes.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.nytimes.com) | andrejguran wrote: | https://archive.ph/qouZA | xianshou wrote: | All these squares make a circle. | | All these squares make a circle. | | All these squares make a circle... | ikesau wrote: | Ian Henderson's own post on the process is probably more | interesting for most people here. | | http://ianhenderson.org/similar-rectangles/ | panic wrote: | Hey, that's me! Though I mention it in the post, I also want to | give a shoutout here to libcalcium, which handles the somewhat | magical task of representing and comparing exact algebraic | numbers: https://fredrikj.net/calcium/index.html. | JKCalhoun wrote: | I tried and came up with three of the eleven, ha ha. One of mine | isn't among the eleven though. I'm too thick though to figure out | if I made a mistake with it. I tried computing the ratio with | algebra but I'm a little rusty. | layer8 wrote: | Is this an OEIS sequence yet? | tromp wrote: | It is, as of today! https://oeis.org/A359146 | [deleted] | ColinWright wrote: | Oh. Gosh. I've been mentioned by name in the NY Times. | zafka wrote: | Congrats Colin!! Next thing you know, late night TV will be | calling :) ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2023-02-07 23:00 UTC)