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Another better lower bound for n=17 square packing

16 pointsby gus_massatoday at 4:50 PM1 commentview on HN

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scuppernongtoday at 5:55 PM

Some of these point arrangements superficially resemble Chladni figures (https://chalkdustmagazine.com/regulars/on-the-cover/cover-ch...) coming from the vibrations of a square drum.

Orthogonally, I wonder if these arrangements are generalizable to give lower bounds for N = n^2 + 1