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Similar: Unlucky tiling: Arrange thirteen right isosceles triangles into a square

Five graded difficulty isosceles right triangle into square tilings

Two difficult "Seventeen right isosceles triangles into a square" tilings

The challenge is to fit the smallest $20$ integer-sided scaled right isosceles triangles into a square with diagonal $46$

For convenience, I list the areas of the triangles:

$1, 2, 4, 8, 9, 16, 18, 25, 32, 36, 49, 50, 64, 72, 81, 98, 100, 121, 128, 144$

There are four ways of doing it (not two as originally posted). A brave person it would be who tackled this by hand.

By way of illustration/clarification, here are the right isosceles triangles of area

$1, 2, 4, 9, 16, 18, 50$

arranged into a $10\times 10$ square:

10x10_7

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Here are at least two solutions (up to reflection and rotation)

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The trapezoid outlined in red can be flipped.
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This is presumably the other "substantially different" solution (not counting the above trapezoid flip as different).

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  • $\begingroup$ Your second solution is the same as one of mine. Your first is not... which means my software butchered something. I'm re-running it finding all 32 solutions, ie I turned off the code that rejects R&R solutions. Originally it found 4 solutions, ie rejected 7 out of every 8. But two of them were reflections. There should be four solutions, I'll have to ID them by hand. Meanwhile I'm awarding your answer... $\endgroup$
    – theonetruepath
    May 23, 2018 at 8:49
  • $\begingroup$ OK my R&R code needs fixing for triangle solving... there are 4 solutions, my two and your three (with an overlap of 1). I'll post the full set in my graphic style for completeness. $\endgroup$
    – theonetruepath
    May 23, 2018 at 10:52
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Here are the four solutions. In the first diagram, there is a flippable area bottom centre so two solutions from that, as noted by @Phenomist:

46_3_4 46_1_2

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