Guillotine and diagonal rectangulations
The two pictures above are examples of rectangulations of size 7. Each one is a tiling of a rectangle by 7 smaller rectangles so that no four of the rectangles meet at a point. The rectangulation on the right is an example of a diagonal rectangulation, which means that cutting the large rectangle in a straight line from top left to bottom right will cut…
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