Talk:Square packing

It would be cool to have the images for the first numbers, from 1 to 10. I know how n= 1, 4, and 9 looks, but cannot imagine how 3 or 7 look. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.94.46.129 (talk) 09:06, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

Why is there a a table on the Square packing in a square for circle packing in a square, but not for square packing in a square? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.24.78.18 (talk) 14:40, 22 February 2023 (UTC)

Sequence for identifying the non-aligned cases
It appears to me that the numbers $$n$$ where $$n < \lfloor \sqrt n \rfloor \lceil \sqrt n \rceil$$ may give the values where packed unit squares in the shortest side square are not orthogonal. Jason Quinn (talk) 08:53, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

Problem description
The articles describes the problem as being to pack as many quares into a given larger form. Actually it seems to be rather the other way round: How small can the larger form be to pack n squares into it?

This is the way Packing_problems describes it too.

I suggest to adjust the description or at least add an alternative version. Meillo (talk) 12:31, 12 February 2024 (UTC)


 * These two questions are the same, in the sense that the complete answer to one can be easily translated to give the complete answer to the other. --JBL (talk) 23:55, 13 February 2024 (UTC)