How many squares can you find? • Hacker News Board

Re: How many squares can you find?

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Post by FiddlerNero » Wed, Aug 01, 2012, 1:50 PM UTC

I've got 40 too :-)

Re: How many squares can you find?

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Post by 430gj9j » Wed, Aug 01, 2012, 1:58 PM UTC

This made me think: do browsers assume square pixels? So that an N by N pixel image will appear square when displayed? Or is that the responsibility of the OS?

Re: How many squares can you find?

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Post by vstm » Wed, Aug 01, 2012, 2:08 PM UTC

bussetta wrote: post #7

i see dead people

There are four lights.

Re: How many squares can you find?

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Post by frankphilips » Wed, Aug 01, 2012, 2:58 PM UTC

bussetta wrote: post #9

40 http://media-geeks.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/27/squares...

This is awesome. Exactly how I did it in my head.

Re: How many squares can you find?

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Post by frankphilips » Wed, Aug 01, 2012, 2:58 PM UTC

mapleoin wrote: post #5

frankphilips wrote: post #2

I see 40

me too, are you crowd-sourcing an IQ test?

LOL! That's funny :)

It's just something cool I saw on Facebook, thought I'd post it.

Re: How many squares can you find?

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Post by longfeltwant » Wed, Aug 01, 2012, 4:18 PM UTC

This isn't much of a brain teaser, if a dum-dum like me can get 40 without even trying very hard.

Re: How many squares can you find?

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Post by dantotheman » Sat, Aug 11, 2012, 12:10 AM UTC

IvoGeorgiev wrote: post #8

40 - starting with a 4x4 grid, that makes 16+9+4+1 = 30, and adding 8+2 for the inner ones Can someone explain where is the 41th, if there is one?

Thats how I counted them too. Start off with cell in top left corner and count 4x4 (16). Then make a 2sq cell and see that you can fit 3 of these across by shifting one cell at a time to make 3x3 (9). Same with 3sq cells (4) and 4sq cells (1) as the total size. Adding the inner ones is straightforward from there.