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    4 days ago

    The posted arrangement is the tightest known packing of 17 squares. The outer square has a side length of 4.6756 times a small sqare’s. So unless you’ve just found one no mathematician has thought of since 1998 yours is slightly larger.

    Edit:
    I found this tool to play around and your packing is 4.7 https://markorastas.github.io/PackingProblem/

    Edit edit:
    I’m a dummy you just need pythagoras, yours is 4+√0.5≈4.7071