Nietzsche meets mathematics in this brain-melting puzzle! The tweet references the famous "God is dead" philosophical quote while introducing us to the mind-boggling square-packing problem that apparently finished the job. Mathematicians spent CENTURIES trying to efficiently pack squares into a square with minimal wasted space. John Bidwell's 1997 solution for packing 17 squares (with that weirdly precise 4.675+ efficiency) is basically mathematical blasphemy - it's so elegantly chaotic it could kill a deity! The universe might run on math, but even cosmic beings would get a headache from this one!
When Math Problems Turn Existential
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