In our second meeting we look at aspects of computer algebra.
See this Wolfram blog post about the Elkies puzzle.
See also the following
youtube short
at the occasion of the Pythagorean triple day 9/16/25, the day of our third
meeting! As for now, it seems that I was the only realizing that the day 9/16/25
was so special.
Wolfram blog post gives also code for proving this.
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Historically there has been an other decomposition into 8 pieces. It is
the Lindgren puzzle (Thanks for Noam Elkies for the reference).