Tiling with rectangles

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

Congruent rectangles

Some tiling of rectangles include:

Stacked bond

Running bond

Basket weave

Basket weave

Herringbone pattern

Tilings with non-congruent rectangles

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

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

See also

• Squaring the square
• tessellation
• tiling puzzle