// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhy was tiling with rectangles popular? It was a square deal.

A tiling with rectangles is a tiling which uses rectangles as its parts. The domino tilings are tilings with rectangles of 1 × 2 side ratio. The tilings with straight polyominoes of shapes such as 1 × 3, 1 × 4 and tilings with polyominoes of shapes such as 2 × 3 fall also into this category.

Congruent rectangles

Some tiling of rectangles include:

Stacked bond

Running bond

Basket weave

3×3 Basket weave

Herringbone pattern

Tilings with non-congruent rectangles

The smallest square that can be cut into (m × n) rectangles, such that all m and n are different integers, is the 11 × 11 square, and the tiling uses five rectangles.

The smallest rectangle that can be cut into (m × n) rectangles, such that all m and n are different integers, is the 9 × 13 rectangle, and the tiling uses five rectangles.

See also

• Square tiling
• Squaring the square
• Tessellation
• Tiling puzzle