• BlueFootedPetey@sh.itjust.works
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    8 months ago

    Is this confirmed? Like yea the picture looks legit, but anybody do this with physical blocks or at least something other than ms paint?

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      8 months ago

      It is confirmed. I don’t understand it very well, but I think this video is pretty decent at explaining it.

      https://youtu.be/RQH5HBkVtgM

      The proof is done with raw numbers and geometry so doing it with physical objects would be worse, even the MS paint is a bad way to present it but it’s easier on the eyes than just numbers.

      Mathematicians would be very excited if you could find a better way to pack them such that they can be bigger.

      So it’s not like there is no way to improve it. It’s just that we haven’t found it yet.