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A perfect rectangle is a rectangle dissected into two or more squares of pairwise different sizes. An imperfect squared rectangle has a dissection in which some size is repeated. The order of a dissection is the number of constituent squares. A dissection is simple if no proper subset of two or more constituent squares forms a rectangle.

Up to symmetry, the numbers of simple perfect squared rectangles of orders 8, 9, 10, ... are 0, 2, 6, 22, 67, 213, 744, 2609, ... (OEIS A002839). The corresponding numbers of simple imperfect squared rectangles are 0, 1, 0, 0, 9, 34, 104, 283, ... (OEIS A002881). These counts include squares as special cases of rectangles (Anderson).

Anderson maintains an online database of perfect rectangles at https://www.squaring.net/.


See also

Mrs. Perkins's Quilt, No-Touch Dissection, Nowhere-Neat Dissection, Perfect Square Dissection, Rectangle Tiling

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References

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Perfect Rectangle." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/PerfectRectangle.html

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