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Mathematical Research Letters
Volume 1 (1994)
Number 5
Tiling a square with silimar rectangles
Pages: 547 – 558
DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.4310/MRL.1994.v1.n5.a3
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Abstract
In 1903 M. Dehn proved that a rectangle can be tiled (or partitioned) into finitely many squares if and only if the ratio of its base and height is rational. In this article we show that a square can be tiled with finitely many similar rectangles of eccentricity $r$ if and only if $r$ is an algebraic number and each of its conjugate roots has positive real part.
Published 1 January 1994