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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Proof via "just look at it"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I feel like the pixalation on the rotated squares is enough to say this picture is not proof.

Again I am not saying they are wrong, just that it would be extremely easy make a picture where it looks like all the squares are all the same size.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I was joking about the proof but there's a non-pixelated version in the comments here

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

Visual proofs can be deceptive, e.g. the infinite chocolate bar.