Talk:Squaring the square
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[edit] How trivial is this?
"Squaring the square is a trivial task unless additional conditions are set." Has this been completely described? Given a square of sides 2.5 units, s-t-s is not trivial. Put a 2 square in, then what? You can't have .5 squares as they are non-integral. Am I missing something? Mr. Jones 19:14, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- Well, it's assumed that the square to be tiled itself has integral sides.....
[edit] "Squaring the square": problem?
Squaring the square problem would be the right title if this article were about squaring something called the "square problem". But it is not. It is about the problem of squaring the square. Hence Squaring-the-square problem, with hyphens, could be appropriate. But I think this simpler title is better because of its simplicity. As Einstein said, things should be as simple as possible, but not simpler. Michael Hardy 22:53 Mar 15, 2003 (UTC)
[edit] Squaring the plane
Quote: "It is still an unsolved problem, however, whether the plane can be tiled with a set of integral tiles such that each natural number is used exactly once as size of a square tile." This is not true: see http://maven.smith.edu/~jhenle/stp/stp.pdf
