Comment on Just one more square bro
Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 week agoThis comes from a math problem where the squares size is fixed and you try to minimize the area they fit in
Comment on Just one more square bro
Zwiebel@feddit.org 1 week agoThis comes from a math problem where the squares size is fixed and you try to minimize the area they fit in
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Yeah I know, but it’s terrible waffle design, there’s big flat chunks without syrup squares. It’s a huge amount of wasted area unable to hold syrup in any meaningful volume. It’s sad, really.
my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 1 week ago
You can’t fit 25 squares of the same size in that space. If you check the top row there’s 4 squares and space for slightly less than one more square, you can’t fit a 5x5 grid there unless you have smaller squares or a bigger waffle
PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Maybe you couldn’t, I absolutely could. The space just looks smaller because there’s a diagonal square butting into it. Doesn’t matter anyway, making the squares smaller was my original comment that sparked this conversation, so I’m right both ways.
my_hat_stinks@programming.dev 6 days 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.