Saturday, 21 May 2016

geometry - Unlucky tiling: Arrange thirteen right isosceles triangles into a square


Link to next puzzle in this series:Five graded difficulty isosceles right triangle into square tilings


Two difficult "Seventeen right isosceles triangles into a square" tilings


V.hard problem, 20 right isosceles triangles into a square


This problem has only one solution, and will be challenging by hand, but probably more satisfying. Computers allowed, probably challenging too. Not for the computer, but for the programmer.


The challenge is to arrange thirteen right isosceles triangles of the following areas into a $36\times 36$ square with no gaps or overlaps.


$2, 4, 8, 18, 32, 64, 72, 98, 128, 144, 196, 242, 288$


By way of illustration/clarification, here are the right isosceles triangles of area


$1, 2, 4, 9, 16, 18, 50$


arranged into a $10\times 10$ square:



10x10_7


If you can solve this with scalene right triangles of the correct area... I'll accept that too.



Answer



Solution:



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Based on the size of the pieces and the board, I saw that the area 288, 144 and 72 pieces would fit together nicely along one side, so I assumed this would be a correct placement. A solver filled in the rest to confirm my assumption.

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