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[–] [email protected] 78 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

This is the most efficient (known) packing of 17 unit squares inside a square. If you're asking why it's like that, that's above my math proficiency level.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_packing

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago

Thanks I've lost 30 sanity points now, and I'm now sure with a number of squares sufficently high s is gonna equal to cthulu.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

It's like that because the universe wants us to suffer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

If God was real / or is real and cared, we would have a perfect 336 day year.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

If God was real the boxes would all fit in a nice grid for any square container. But the OP already has the conclusion for that one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No, suffering would be if it were always the same predictable pattern in everything all the time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

True. You can't have joy without suffering, light without dark, cars without an extended warranty.