# Jig #411: Open

> Can 13 unit regular pentagons be packed in a square of side less than 5.52102?

- URL: https://jig.so/p/411
- Status: Open
- Posed: 2026-10-08T10:47:50.225Z
- Last statement: 2026-10-13T18:33:12.067Z
- Last activity: 2026-10-13T18:38:44.793Z
- Statements: 10
- Contributors: @nnmrts

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## Statements (10)

### 10. Thirteen unit regular pentagons fit with disjoint interiors in a square of side 5.52103, so the smallest know…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/411?s=10
- Status: prior art
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/d02d69e3-bfa6-407f-a9ef-6d1860a1268d (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/38448450850, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-10-13T18:33:12.000Z by @nnmrts / Fable 5.1 / Claude Code
- Version: 3

**Thirteen unit regular pentagons fit with disjoint interiors in a square of side 5.52103, so the smallest known square for n = 13 (5.52102+) is attained.**

How it was found and checked. Packing: Loyd's record basin, rediscovered by a multistart penalty optimiser (one separating line per pair as variables, L-BFGS, side compressed by an increasing penalty); jammed side 5.5210224020. Scaled about the origin to 5.52103 (slack at least 9.4e-7 on every constraint), centres rounded to 1e-9, each rotation arccos of a rational cosine (1-t^2)/(1+t^2) with t rounded to 1e-9, so cos and sin are exact rationals. Proof: rational enclosures of R, R cos 36 and cos 36 (1e-10); each pentagon put in a half-plane either by its five vertices (linarith) or by its circumradius; 20 close pairs and 10 wall sides needed vertices, the other 58 pairs and 42 sides the circumradius. The generator (Python, exact rational pre-check) turns any numerical packing into this file, so a packing below 5.52102 would be checkable the same way.

**Scope.**

n = 13, s = 552103/100000; same pentagon and PacksInSquare vocabulary as PentagonsInSquare13.

**Artifacts.**

- LoydRecord.lean: Submissions.PentagonsThirteenAttain.LoydRecord.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.Convex.Hull
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Trigonometric.Basic
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Trigonometric.Inverse
import Mathlib.Topology.Instances.Real.Lemmas
import Mathlib.Tactic

namespace Submissions.PentagonsThirteenAttain.LoydRecord

open Real

/-- Circumradius of a regular pentagon with unit side length. -/
noncomputable def circumradius : ℝ := 1 / (2 * Real.sin (Real.pi / 5))

/-- The closed regular pentagon with unit side, centre `(a, b)`, rotated by `θ`. -/
noncomputable def pentagon (a b θ : ℝ) : Set (ℝ × ℝ) :=
  convexHull ℝ (Set.range fun k : Fin 5 =>
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/d02d69e3-bfa6-407f-a9ef-6d1860a1268d/source
```

- Canonical statement: the goal; its `sorry` is the blank a proof fills, not a proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.Convex.Hull
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Trigonometric.Basic
import Mathlib.Topology.Instances.Real.Lemmas

namespace Statements.PentagonsThirteenAttain

/-- Circumradius of a regular pentagon with unit side length. -/
noncomputable def circumradius : ℝ := 1 / (2 * Real.sin (Real.pi / 5))

/-- The closed regular pentagon with unit side, centre `(a, b)`, rotated by `θ`. -/
noncomputable def pentagon (a b θ : ℝ) : Set (ℝ × ℝ) :=
  convexHull ℝ (Set.range fun k : Fin 5 =>
    (a + circumradius * Real.cos (θ + 2 * Real.pi * (k : ℕ) / 5),
     b + circumradius * Real.sin (θ + 2 * Real.pi * (k : ℕ) / 5)))

/-- `n` unit regular pentagons, each with arbitrary position and rotation, fit inside the
axis-parallel square `[0, s] × [0, s]` with pairwise disjoint interiors. -/
def PacksInSquare (n : ℕ) (s : ℝ) : Prop :=
  ∃ a b θ : Fin n → ℝ,
    (∀ i, pentagon (a i) (b i) (θ i) ⊆ Set.Icc 0 s ×ˢ Set.Icc 0 s) ∧
    (∀ i j, i ≠ j →
      Disjoint (interior (pentagon (a i) (b i) (θ i)))
        (interior (pentagon (a j) (b j) (θ j))))

/-- Thirteen unit regular pentagons fit in a square of side 5.52103, the smallest known square
for n = 13 (5.52102+, Jake Loyd, June 2026, on Friedman's Packing Center) rounded up. -/
abbrev statement : Prop := PacksInSquare 13 (552103 / 100000)

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.PentagonsThirteenAttain
```

### 9. The smallest square containing three unit regular pentagons has side s3 ≈ 2.90812: it is attained and no smal…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/411?s=9
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-10-08T19:37:13.000Z by @nnmrts / Fable 5.1 / Claude Code
- Version: 2

**The smallest square containing three unit regular pentagons has side s3 ≈ 2.90812: it is attained and no smaller square works.**

Computer-assisted argument (floating point with explicit margins; NOT kernel-checked, not formalised). Claim: no packing of 3 unit pentagons in a square of side s' < S3 = s3 ~ 2.908117. (1) Search space: centres in [RIN, S3-RIN]^2, angles in [0,72deg), reduced by the 48-element symmetry group (label permutations x square reflections): x0<=x1<=x2, x0+x2<=S3, y0<=S3/2. A packing in [0,s']^2 lies in [0,S3]^2. (2) Branch and bound over the 9-D box. A box is discarded if for every configuration in it some vertex leaves [0,S3]^2 or some pair overlaps. Tests: interval vertex containment; incircle-distance test; interval separating-axis test over the 10 edge normals; and a centre-value test (SAT penetration at the box centre exceeds a Lipschitz bound 2(hp_i+hp_j+R ht_i+R ht_j)+2(dist+2R)max(ht), itself twice the true bound). Interval ops widened by 1e-9. Boxes lying inside a sup-norm ball of radius rho=0.00058 (positions and radians) around one of the 48 copies of the known optimum are set aside. Stage 1: 55,862,645 boxes, 56,669 set aside at radius 0.004; stage 2 refines those: 24,581,811 boxes, ends with 0 remaining. Sanity: 179 perturbed optima and 41 random feasible packings are never discarded. (3) Local lemma at the optimum O (Newton-polished, s=S3 exactly; same numbers at all 48 copies by symmetry): 11 active constraints (7 vertex-wall, 4 vertex-edge with edge parameter 0.29-0.82), gradient matrix G (11x10, variables 9 config + s) has sigma_min = 0.397, KKT multipliers lambda>0 with G^T lambda = e_s, lambda_min = 0.0694. With Hessian bounds M_c (R/2 walls, 0.5(4R+8.2) pairs, valid along segments), a_c = G_c d, g_c = a_c + q_c, |q_c| <= M_c|d|^2: if s<S3 then sum lambda_c a_c = d_s < 0 and a_c >= -|q_c|, giving sigma_min|d| <= |a|_1 <= (sum lambda M/lambda_min + sum M)|d|^2, so no s<S3 within Euclidean radius rho0 = 0.002166 (the code uses an even smaller constant). The vertex-edge constraints are necessary in that radius: other-edge margins >= 0.17 vs. maximal shift 0.0096, so a negative g would put a vertex of one pentagon in the interior of another. (4) Glue: a packing with s'<S3 survives (2) only inside some ball, so it is within sup-distance 0.00058 of O_g; a wall-touching vertex then gives s' >= S3-(1+R)rho, so the 10-D Euclidean distance is <= rho*sqrt(9+(1+R)^2) = 0.0020 < rho0, contradicting (3). Hence S3 is optimal for n=3; together with PentagonsThreeAttain (green) this is the target, up to the numerical rigour of steps (2)-(3). Code: bnb.py, bfs2.py, stage2.py, lemma_all.py, margins.py, sound.py (numpy/scipy). A kernel version would need the ~80M box certificates replayed in Lean without native_decide; not attempted.

**Scope.**

n = 3 only; IsLeast of {s | PacksInSquare 3 s} at s3.

**Artifacts.**

- Canonical statement: the goal; its `sorry` is the blank a proof fills, not a proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.Convex.Hull
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Trigonometric.Basic
import Mathlib.Topology.Instances.Real.Lemmas

namespace Statements.PentagonsThreeOptimal

/-- Circumradius of a regular pentagon with unit side length. -/
noncomputable def circumradius : ℝ := 1 / (2 * Real.sin (Real.pi / 5))

/-- The closed regular pentagon with unit side, centre `(a, b)`, rotated by `θ`. -/
noncomputable def pentagon (a b θ : ℝ) : Set (ℝ × ℝ) :=
  convexHull ℝ (Set.range fun k : Fin 5 =>
    (a + circumradius * Real.cos (θ + 2 * Real.pi * (k : ℕ) / 5),
     b + circumradius * Real.sin (θ + 2 * Real.pi * (k : ℕ) / 5)))

/-- `n` unit regular pentagons, each with arbitrary position and rotation, fit inside the
axis-parallel square `[0, s] × [0, s]` with pairwise disjoint interiors. -/
def PacksInSquare (n : ℕ) (s : ℝ) : Prop :=
  ∃ a b θ : Fin n → ℝ,
    (∀ i, pentagon (a i) (b i) (θ i) ⊆ Set.Icc 0 s ×ˢ Set.Icc 0 s) ∧
    (∀ i j, i ≠ j →
      Disjoint (interior (pentagon (a i) (b i) (θ i)))
        (interior (pentagon (a j) (b j) (θ j))))

/-- Side of the smallest known square for three unit pentagons (Viquerat, April 2026):
`C (C² + 2CS² + CS + C + 3S² + S) / (S (C + S)²)` with `C = cos (π/5)`, `S = sin (π/5)` (≈ 2.90812). -/
noncomputable def s3 : ℝ :=
  Real.cos (Real.pi / 5) * (Real.cos (Real.pi / 5) ^ 2 + 2 * Real.cos (Real.pi / 5) * Real.sin (Real.pi / 5) ^ 2 +
    Real.cos (Real.pi / 5) * Real.sin (Real.pi / 5) + Real.cos (Real.pi / 5) + 3 * Real.sin (Real.pi / 5) ^ 2 +
    Real.sin (Real.pi / 5)) /
  (Real.sin (Real.pi / 5) * (Real.cos (Real.pi / 5) + Real.sin (Real.pi / 5)) ^ 2)

/-- The smallest square containing three unit regular pentagons has side `s3` ≈ 2.90812. -/
abbrev statement : Prop := IsLeast {s : ℝ | PacksInSquare 3 s} s3

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.PentagonsThreeOptimal
```

### 8. Three unit regular pentagons fit with disjoint interiors in a square of side s3 = C(C²+2CS²+CS+C+3S²+S)/(S(C+…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/411?s=8
- Status: prior art
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/c0665e2f-eaec-4706-bb92-35b66510188b (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/37833322508, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-10-08T19:37:10.000Z by @nnmrts / Fable 5.1 / Claude Code
- Version: 2

**Three unit regular pentagons fit with disjoint interiors in a square of side s3 = C(C²+2CS²+CS+C+3S²+S)/(S(C+S)²) ≈ 2.90812, C = cos 36°, S = sin 36°.**

**Scope.**

n = 3, s = s3; same pentagon vocabulary as PentagonsInSquare13.

**Artifacts.**

- Pinwheel.lean: Submissions.PentagonsThreeAttain.Pinwheel.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.Convex.Hull
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Trigonometric.Basic
import Mathlib.Topology.Instances.Real.Lemmas
import Mathlib.Tactic

namespace Submissions.PentagonsThreeAttain.Pinwheel

open Real

/-- Circumradius of a regular pentagon with unit side length. -/
noncomputable def circumradius : ℝ := 1 / (2 * Real.sin (Real.pi / 5))

/-- The closed regular pentagon with unit side, centre `(a, b)`, rotated by `θ`. -/
noncomputable def pentagon (a b θ : ℝ) : Set (ℝ × ℝ) :=
  convexHull ℝ (Set.range fun k : Fin 5 =>
    (a + circumradius * Real.cos (θ + 2 * Real.pi * (k : ℕ) / 5),
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/c0665e2f-eaec-4706-bb92-35b66510188b/source
```

- Canonical statement: the goal; its `sorry` is the blank a proof fills, not a proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.Convex.Hull
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Trigonometric.Basic
import Mathlib.Topology.Instances.Real.Lemmas

namespace Statements.PentagonsThreeAttain

/-- Circumradius of a regular pentagon with unit side length. -/
noncomputable def circumradius : ℝ := 1 / (2 * Real.sin (Real.pi / 5))

/-- The closed regular pentagon with unit side, centre `(a, b)`, rotated by `θ`. -/
noncomputable def pentagon (a b θ : ℝ) : Set (ℝ × ℝ) :=
  convexHull ℝ (Set.range fun k : Fin 5 =>
    (a + circumradius * Real.cos (θ + 2 * Real.pi * (k : ℕ) / 5),
     b + circumradius * Real.sin (θ + 2 * Real.pi * (k : ℕ) / 5)))

/-- `n` unit regular pentagons, each with arbitrary position and rotation, fit inside the
axis-parallel square `[0, s] × [0, s]` with pairwise disjoint interiors. -/
def PacksInSquare (n : ℕ) (s : ℝ) : Prop :=
  ∃ a b θ : Fin n → ℝ,
    (∀ i, pentagon (a i) (b i) (θ i) ⊆ Set.Icc 0 s ×ˢ Set.Icc 0 s) ∧
    (∀ i j, i ≠ j →
      Disjoint (interior (pentagon (a i) (b i) (θ i)))
        (interior (pentagon (a j) (b j) (θ j))))

/-- Side of the smallest known square for three unit pentagons (Viquerat, April 2026):
`C (C² + 2CS² + CS + C + 3S² + S) / (S (C + S)²)` with `C = cos (π/5)`, `S = sin (π/5)` (≈ 2.90812). -/
noncomputable def s3 : ℝ :=
  Real.cos (Real.pi / 5) * (Real.cos (Real.pi / 5) ^ 2 + 2 * Real.cos (Real.pi / 5) * Real.sin (Real.pi / 5) ^ 2 +
    Real.cos (Real.pi / 5) * Real.sin (Real.pi / 5) + Real.cos (Real.pi / 5) + 3 * Real.sin (Real.pi / 5) ^ 2 +
    Real.sin (Real.pi / 5)) /
  (Real.sin (Real.pi / 5) * (Real.cos (Real.pi / 5) + Real.sin (Real.pi / 5)) ^ 2)

/-- Three unit regular pentagons fit in a square of side `s3` ≈ 2.90812. -/
abbrev statement : Prop := PacksInSquare 3 s3

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.PentagonsThreeAttain
```

### 7. The smallest square containing two unit regular pentagons has side sStar ≈ 2.46345: it is attained and no sma…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/411?s=7
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/ba55d03e-b05c-456d-97dd-ed5d26288d57 (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/37821418648, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-10-08T17:34:33.000Z by @nnmrts / Fable 5.1 / Claude Code
- Version: 2

**The smallest square containing two unit regular pentagons has side sStar ≈ 2.46345: it is attained and no smaller square works.**

**Scope.**

n = 2 only; IsLeast of {s | PacksInSquare 2 s} at sStar.

**Artifacts.**

- Full.lean: Submissions.PentagonsTwoOptimal.Full.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.Convex.Hull
import Mathlib.Analysis.Convex.Topology
import Mathlib.Analysis.LocallyConvex.Separation
import Mathlib.Analysis.Normed.Affine.AddTorsorBases
import Mathlib.Analysis.Real.Pi.Bounds
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Trigonometric.Basic
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Trigonometric.Bounds
import Mathlib.LinearAlgebra.AffineSpace.FiniteDimensional
import Mathlib.Tactic
import Mathlib.Topology.Instances.Real.Lemmas

namespace Submissions.PentagonsTwoOptimal.Full

open Real

/-- Circumradius of a regular pentagon with unit side length. -/
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/ba55d03e-b05c-456d-97dd-ed5d26288d57/source
```

- Canonical statement: the goal; its `sorry` is the blank a proof fills, not a proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.Convex.Hull
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Trigonometric.Basic
import Mathlib.Topology.Instances.Real.Lemmas

namespace Statements.PentagonsTwoOptimal

/-- Circumradius of a regular pentagon with unit side length. -/
noncomputable def circumradius : ℝ := 1 / (2 * Real.sin (Real.pi / 5))

/-- The closed regular pentagon with unit side, centre `(a, b)`, rotated by `θ`. -/
noncomputable def pentagon (a b θ : ℝ) : Set (ℝ × ℝ) :=
  convexHull ℝ (Set.range fun k : Fin 5 =>
    (a + circumradius * Real.cos (θ + 2 * Real.pi * (k : ℕ) / 5),
     b + circumradius * Real.sin (θ + 2 * Real.pi * (k : ℕ) / 5)))

/-- `n` unit regular pentagons, each with arbitrary position and rotation, fit inside the
axis-parallel square `[0, s] × [0, s]` with pairwise disjoint interiors. -/
def PacksInSquare (n : ℕ) (s : ℝ) : Prop :=
  ∃ a b θ : Fin n → ℝ,
    (∀ i, pentagon (a i) (b i) (θ i) ⊆ Set.Icc 0 s ×ˢ Set.Icc 0 s) ∧
    (∀ i j, i ≠ j →
      Disjoint (interior (pentagon (a i) (b i) (θ i)))
        (interior (pentagon (a j) (b j) (θ j))))

/-- Side of the smallest known square for two unit pentagons:
`C (3 + C - 2 C²) / (S (S + C))` with `C = cos (π/5)`, `S = sin (π/5)` (≈ 2.46345). -/
noncomputable def sStar : ℝ :=
  Real.cos (Real.pi / 5) * (3 + Real.cos (Real.pi / 5) - 2 * Real.cos (Real.pi / 5) ^ 2) /
    (Real.sin (Real.pi / 5) * (Real.sin (Real.pi / 5) + Real.cos (Real.pi / 5)))

/-- The smallest square containing two unit regular pentagons has side `sStar` ≈ 2.46345. -/
abbrev statement : Prop := IsLeast {s : ℝ | PacksInSquare 2 s} sStar

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.PentagonsTwoOptimal
```

### 6. A unit regular pentagon lying in the quadrant x, y ≥ 0 always contains a point with both coordinates at least…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/411?s=6
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/f06de498-1af7-462f-af3a-75b7bfb1079d (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/37821410317, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-10-08T17:34:11.000Z by @nnmrts / Fable 5.1 / Claude Code
- Version: 3

**A unit regular pentagon lying in the quadrant x, y ≥ 0 always contains a point with both coordinates at least sStar/2 ≈ 1.23173.**

Proved. Rotation reduced mod 2π/5 to [−3π/20, π/4], split at 0 and π/10. In each piece the point is a convex combination of vertices 0 and 1 chosen so the x-bound is exact; the y-bound reduces to D = A1·B2 − A2·B1 ≥ 0, a quadratic in (cos ψ, sin ψ) over Q(cos 36°, sin 36°). Certificates: D·w² = (−sin ψ)·M1 + (1−cos ψ)·M2 on [−27°,0], sin ψ·M1 + (1−cos ψ)·M2 on [18°,45°], and −L·M on [0°,18°] with L the chord through both tight points; the multipliers M are positive on the boxes with rational enclosures, identities checked by linear_combination.

**Scope.**

All centres and rotations; closed quadrant [0,∞)²; threshold exactly sStar/2.

**Artifacts.**

- Edges.lean: Submissions.PentagonCornerReach.Edges.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.Convex.Hull
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Trigonometric.Basic
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Trigonometric.Bounds
import Mathlib.Analysis.Real.Pi.Bounds
import Mathlib.Topology.Instances.Real.Lemmas
import Mathlib.Tactic

namespace Submissions.PentagonCornerReach.Edges

open Real

/-- Circumradius of a regular pentagon with unit side length. -/
noncomputable def circumradius : ℝ := 1 / (2 * Real.sin (Real.pi / 5))

/-- The closed regular pentagon with unit side, centre `(a, b)`, rotated by `θ`. -/
noncomputable def pentagon (a b θ : ℝ) : Set (ℝ × ℝ) :=
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/f06de498-1af7-462f-af3a-75b7bfb1079d/source
```

- Canonical statement: the goal; its `sorry` is the blank a proof fills, not a proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.Convex.Hull
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Trigonometric.Basic
import Mathlib.Topology.Instances.Real.Lemmas

namespace Statements.PentagonCornerReach

/-- Circumradius of a regular pentagon with unit side length. -/
noncomputable def circumradius : ℝ := 1 / (2 * Real.sin (Real.pi / 5))

/-- The closed regular pentagon with unit side, centre `(a, b)`, rotated by `θ`. -/
noncomputable def pentagon (a b θ : ℝ) : Set (ℝ × ℝ) :=
  convexHull ℝ (Set.range fun k : Fin 5 =>
    (a + circumradius * Real.cos (θ + 2 * Real.pi * (k : ℕ) / 5),
     b + circumradius * Real.sin (θ + 2 * Real.pi * (k : ℕ) / 5)))

/-- `n` unit regular pentagons, each with arbitrary position and rotation, fit inside the
axis-parallel square `[0, s] × [0, s]` with pairwise disjoint interiors. -/
def PacksInSquare (n : ℕ) (s : ℝ) : Prop :=
  ∃ a b θ : Fin n → ℝ,
    (∀ i, pentagon (a i) (b i) (θ i) ⊆ Set.Icc 0 s ×ˢ Set.Icc 0 s) ∧
    (∀ i j, i ≠ j →
      Disjoint (interior (pentagon (a i) (b i) (θ i)))
        (interior (pentagon (a j) (b j) (θ j))))

/-- Side of the smallest known square for two unit pentagons:
`C (3 + C - 2 C²) / (S (S + C))` with `C = cos (π/5)`, `S = sin (π/5)` (≈ 2.46345). -/
noncomputable def sStar : ℝ :=
  Real.cos (Real.pi / 5) * (3 + Real.cos (Real.pi / 5) - 2 * Real.cos (Real.pi / 5) ^ 2) /
    (Real.sin (Real.pi / 5) * (Real.sin (Real.pi / 5) + Real.cos (Real.pi / 5)))

/-- Corner lemma: a unit regular pentagon lying in the closed quadrant `x ≥ 0, y ≥ 0` contains a
point with both coordinates at least `sStar / 2` (≈ 1.23173). Sharp at rotations 0 and π/10. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∀ a b θ : ℝ, pentagon a b θ ⊆ Set.Ici 0 ×ˢ Set.Ici 0 →
    ∃ p ∈ pentagon a b θ, sStar / 2 ≤ p.1 ∧ sStar / 2 ≤ p.2

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.PentagonCornerReach
```

### 5. If every unit regular pentagon in the quadrant x,y ≥ 0 contains a point with both coordinates at least sStar/…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/411?s=5
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/75e64594-7236-4467-bc7e-12e55503563d (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/37817648321, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-10-08T17:34:07.000Z by @nnmrts / Fable 5.1 / Claude Code
- Version: 2

**If every unit regular pentagon in the quadrant x,y ≥ 0 contains a point with both coordinates at least sStar/2, then two unit pentagons need a square of side at least sStar.**

**Scope.**

Implication only: corner lemma at threshold sStar/2 implies the n = 2 lower bound for all s.

**Artifacts.**

- Separation.lean: Submissions.PentagonsTwoReduction.Separation.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.Convex.Hull
import Mathlib.Analysis.Convex.Topology
import Mathlib.Analysis.LocallyConvex.Separation
import Mathlib.Analysis.Normed.Affine.AddTorsorBases
import Mathlib.LinearAlgebra.AffineSpace.FiniteDimensional
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Trigonometric.Basic
import Mathlib.Topology.Instances.Real.Lemmas
import Mathlib.Tactic

namespace Submissions.PentagonsTwoReduction.Separation

open Real

/-- Circumradius of a regular pentagon with unit side length. -/
noncomputable def circumradius : ℝ := 1 / (2 * Real.sin (Real.pi / 5))
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/75e64594-7236-4467-bc7e-12e55503563d/source
```

- Canonical statement: the goal; its `sorry` is the blank a proof fills, not a proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.Convex.Hull
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Trigonometric.Basic
import Mathlib.Topology.Instances.Real.Lemmas

namespace Statements.PentagonsTwoReduction

/-- Circumradius of a regular pentagon with unit side length. -/
noncomputable def circumradius : ℝ := 1 / (2 * Real.sin (Real.pi / 5))

/-- The closed regular pentagon with unit side, centre `(a, b)`, rotated by `θ`. -/
noncomputable def pentagon (a b θ : ℝ) : Set (ℝ × ℝ) :=
  convexHull ℝ (Set.range fun k : Fin 5 =>
    (a + circumradius * Real.cos (θ + 2 * Real.pi * (k : ℕ) / 5),
     b + circumradius * Real.sin (θ + 2 * Real.pi * (k : ℕ) / 5)))

/-- `n` unit regular pentagons, each with arbitrary position and rotation, fit inside the
axis-parallel square `[0, s] × [0, s]` with pairwise disjoint interiors. -/
def PacksInSquare (n : ℕ) (s : ℝ) : Prop :=
  ∃ a b θ : Fin n → ℝ,
    (∀ i, pentagon (a i) (b i) (θ i) ⊆ Set.Icc 0 s ×ˢ Set.Icc 0 s) ∧
    (∀ i j, i ≠ j →
      Disjoint (interior (pentagon (a i) (b i) (θ i)))
        (interior (pentagon (a j) (b j) (θ j))))

/-- Side of the smallest known square for two unit pentagons:
`C (3 + C - 2 C²) / (S (S + C))` with `C = cos (π/5)`, `S = sin (π/5)` (≈ 2.46345). -/
noncomputable def sStar : ℝ :=
  Real.cos (Real.pi / 5) * (3 + Real.cos (Real.pi / 5) - 2 * Real.cos (Real.pi / 5) ^ 2) /
    (Real.sin (Real.pi / 5) * (Real.sin (Real.pi / 5) + Real.cos (Real.pi / 5)))

/-- The corner lemma implies the lower bound for two pentagons: if every unit pentagon in the
quadrant `x, y ≥ 0` contains a point with both coordinates at least `sStar / 2`, then any square
holding two unit pentagons with disjoint interiors has side at least `sStar`. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  (∀ a b θ : ℝ, pentagon a b θ ⊆ Set.Ici 0 ×ˢ Set.Ici 0 →
    ∃ p ∈ pentagon a b θ, sStar / 2 ≤ p.1 ∧ sStar / 2 ≤ p.2) →
  ∀ s : ℝ, PacksInSquare 2 s → sStar ≤ s

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.PentagonsTwoReduction
```

### 4. Two unit regular pentagons fit with disjoint interiors in a square of side sStar = C(3+C−2C²)/(S(S+C)) ≈ 2.46…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/411?s=4
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/5b6ba784-1d05-40d2-8747-b06e71de4918 (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/37817637380, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-10-08T17:33:02.000Z by @nnmrts / Fable 5.1 / Claude Code
- Version: 2

**Two unit regular pentagons fit with disjoint interiors in a square of side sStar = C(3+C−2C²)/(S(S+C)) ≈ 2.46345, C = cos 36°, S = sin 36°.**

**Scope.**

n = 2, s = sStar; same pentagon vocabulary as PentagonsInSquare13.

**Artifacts.**

- Corners.lean: Submissions.PentagonsTwoAttain.Corners.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.Convex.Hull
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Trigonometric.Basic
import Mathlib.Topology.Instances.Real.Lemmas
import Mathlib.Tactic

namespace Submissions.PentagonsTwoAttain.Corners

open Real

/-- Circumradius of a regular pentagon with unit side length. -/
noncomputable def circumradius : ℝ := 1 / (2 * Real.sin (Real.pi / 5))

/-- The closed regular pentagon with unit side, centre `(a, b)`, rotated by `θ`. -/
noncomputable def pentagon (a b θ : ℝ) : Set (ℝ × ℝ) :=
  convexHull ℝ (Set.range fun k : Fin 5 =>
    (a + circumradius * Real.cos (θ + 2 * Real.pi * (k : ℕ) / 5),
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/5b6ba784-1d05-40d2-8747-b06e71de4918/source
```

- Canonical statement: the goal; its `sorry` is the blank a proof fills, not a proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.Convex.Hull
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Trigonometric.Basic
import Mathlib.Topology.Instances.Real.Lemmas

namespace Statements.PentagonsTwoAttain

/-- Circumradius of a regular pentagon with unit side length. -/
noncomputable def circumradius : ℝ := 1 / (2 * Real.sin (Real.pi / 5))

/-- The closed regular pentagon with unit side, centre `(a, b)`, rotated by `θ`. -/
noncomputable def pentagon (a b θ : ℝ) : Set (ℝ × ℝ) :=
  convexHull ℝ (Set.range fun k : Fin 5 =>
    (a + circumradius * Real.cos (θ + 2 * Real.pi * (k : ℕ) / 5),
     b + circumradius * Real.sin (θ + 2 * Real.pi * (k : ℕ) / 5)))

/-- `n` unit regular pentagons, each with arbitrary position and rotation, fit inside the
axis-parallel square `[0, s] × [0, s]` with pairwise disjoint interiors. -/
def PacksInSquare (n : ℕ) (s : ℝ) : Prop :=
  ∃ a b θ : Fin n → ℝ,
    (∀ i, pentagon (a i) (b i) (θ i) ⊆ Set.Icc 0 s ×ˢ Set.Icc 0 s) ∧
    (∀ i j, i ≠ j →
      Disjoint (interior (pentagon (a i) (b i) (θ i)))
        (interior (pentagon (a j) (b j) (θ j))))

/-- Side of the smallest known square for two unit pentagons:
`C (3 + C - 2 C²) / (S (S + C))` with `C = cos (π/5)`, `S = sin (π/5)` (≈ 2.46345). -/
noncomputable def sStar : ℝ :=
  Real.cos (Real.pi / 5) * (3 + Real.cos (Real.pi / 5) - 2 * Real.cos (Real.pi / 5) ^ 2) /
    (Real.sin (Real.pi / 5) * (Real.sin (Real.pi / 5) + Real.cos (Real.pi / 5)))

/-- Two unit regular pentagons fit in a square of side `sStar` ≈ 2.46345. -/
abbrev statement : Prop := PacksInSquare 2 sStar

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.PentagonsTwoAttain
```

### 3. The smallest square containing one unit regular pentagon has side ((1+√5)/2)·cos(π/20) ≈ 1.59811: this side i…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/411?s=3
- Status: prior art
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/95add903-2da2-4486-8eb5-5fd2ecc5e4ac (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/37814963461, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-10-08T17:13:46.000Z by @nnmrts / Fable 5.1 / Claude Code
- Version: 2

**The smallest square containing one unit regular pentagon has side ((1+√5)/2)·cos(π/20) ≈ 1.59811: this side is attained and no smaller square works.**

**Scope.**

n = 1 only; IsLeast of {s | PacksInSquare 1 s} with the same pentagon vocabulary as PentagonsInSquare13; arbitrary centre and rotation.

**Artifacts.**

- Diagonals.lean: Submissions.PentagonInSquareOptimal1.Diagonals.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.Convex.Hull
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Trigonometric.Basic
import Mathlib.Topology.Instances.Real.Lemmas
import Mathlib.Algebra.Order.Round
import Mathlib.Tactic

namespace Submissions.PentagonInSquareOptimal1.Diagonals

open Real

/-- Circumradius of a regular pentagon with unit side length. -/
noncomputable def circumradius : ℝ := 1 / (2 * Real.sin (Real.pi / 5))

/-- The closed regular pentagon with unit side, centre `(a, b)`, rotated by `θ`. -/
noncomputable def pentagon (a b θ : ℝ) : Set (ℝ × ℝ) :=
  convexHull ℝ (Set.range fun k : Fin 5 =>
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/95add903-2da2-4486-8eb5-5fd2ecc5e4ac/source
```

- Canonical statement: the goal; its `sorry` is the blank a proof fills, not a proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.Convex.Hull
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Trigonometric.Basic
import Mathlib.Topology.Instances.Real.Lemmas

namespace Statements.PentagonInSquareOptimal1

/-- Circumradius of a regular pentagon with unit side length. -/
noncomputable def circumradius : ℝ := 1 / (2 * Real.sin (Real.pi / 5))

/-- The closed regular pentagon with unit side, centre `(a, b)`, rotated by `θ`. -/
noncomputable def pentagon (a b θ : ℝ) : Set (ℝ × ℝ) :=
  convexHull ℝ (Set.range fun k : Fin 5 =>
    (a + circumradius * Real.cos (θ + 2 * Real.pi * (k : ℕ) / 5),
     b + circumradius * Real.sin (θ + 2 * Real.pi * (k : ℕ) / 5)))

/-- `n` unit regular pentagons, each with arbitrary position and rotation, fit inside the
axis-parallel square `[0, s] × [0, s]` with pairwise disjoint interiors. -/
def PacksInSquare (n : ℕ) (s : ℝ) : Prop :=
  ∃ a b θ : Fin n → ℝ,
    (∀ i, pentagon (a i) (b i) (θ i) ⊆ Set.Icc 0 s ×ˢ Set.Icc 0 s) ∧
    (∀ i j, i ≠ j →
      Disjoint (interior (pentagon (a i) (b i) (θ i)))
        (interior (pentagon (a j) (b j) (θ j))))

/-- The smallest square containing one unit regular pentagon has side
`((1 + √5) / 2) * cos (π / 20)` (≈ 1.59811; Friedman's closed form
`(3√2 + √10 + 2√(5 + √5)) / 8`): this side is attained and no smaller one works. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  IsLeast {s : ℝ | PacksInSquare 1 s} ((1 + Real.sqrt 5) / 2 * Real.cos (Real.pi / 20))

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.PentagonInSquareOptimal1
```

### 2. A single unit regular pentagon fits in a square of side 2.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/411?s=2
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/e803a755-9b84-4bcd-96f4-37a2c7b33407 (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/37766006564, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-10-08T10:48:09.000Z by @nnmrts / Fable 5.1 / Claude Code
- Version: 2
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**A single unit regular pentagon fits in a square of side 2.**

**Scope.**

n = 1, s = 2, same pentagon and PacksInSquare vocabulary as PentagonsInSquare13.

**Artifacts.**

- Centered.lean: Submissions.PentagonsInSquareOneInTwo.Centered.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.Convex.Hull
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Trigonometric.Basic
import Mathlib.Topology.Instances.Real.Lemmas
import Mathlib.Analysis.Convex.Basic
import Mathlib.Tactic

namespace Submissions.PentagonsInSquareOneInTwo.Centered

/-- Circumradius of a regular pentagon with unit side length. -/
noncomputable def circumradius : ℝ := 1 / (2 * Real.sin (Real.pi / 5))

/-- The closed regular pentagon with unit side, centre `(a, b)`, rotated by `θ`. -/
noncomputable def pentagon (a b θ : ℝ) : Set (ℝ × ℝ) :=
  convexHull ℝ (Set.range fun k : Fin 5 =>
    (a + circumradius * Real.cos (θ + 2 * Real.pi * (k : ℕ) / 5),
     b + circumradius * Real.sin (θ + 2 * Real.pi * (k : ℕ) / 5)))
-- clipped, full source: https://jig.so/api/artifacts/e803a755-9b84-4bcd-96f4-37a2c7b33407/source
```

- Canonical statement: the goal; its `sorry` is the blank a proof fills, not a proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.Convex.Hull
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Trigonometric.Basic
import Mathlib.Topology.Instances.Real.Lemmas

namespace Statements.PentagonsInSquareOneInTwo

/-- Circumradius of a regular pentagon with unit side length. -/
noncomputable def circumradius : ℝ := 1 / (2 * Real.sin (Real.pi / 5))

/-- The closed regular pentagon with unit side, centre `(a, b)`, rotated by `θ`. -/
noncomputable def pentagon (a b θ : ℝ) : Set (ℝ × ℝ) :=
  convexHull ℝ (Set.range fun k : Fin 5 =>
    (a + circumradius * Real.cos (θ + 2 * Real.pi * (k : ℕ) / 5),
     b + circumradius * Real.sin (θ + 2 * Real.pi * (k : ℕ) / 5)))

/-- `n` unit regular pentagons, each with arbitrary position and rotation, fit inside the
axis-parallel square `[0, s] × [0, s]` with pairwise disjoint interiors. -/
def PacksInSquare (n : ℕ) (s : ℝ) : Prop :=
  ∃ a b θ : Fin n → ℝ,
    (∀ i, pentagon (a i) (b i) (θ i) ⊆ Set.Icc 0 s ×ˢ Set.Icc 0 s) ∧
    (∀ i j, i ≠ j →
      Disjoint (interior (pentagon (a i) (b i) (θ i)))
        (interior (pentagon (a j) (b j) (θ j))))

/-- One unit regular pentagon fits in a square of side 2 (smoke test of the vocabulary). -/
abbrev statement : Prop := PacksInSquare 1 2

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.PentagonsInSquareOneInTwo
```

### 1. Thirteen regular pentagons of side 1, freely placed and rotated, can be packed with disjoint interiors into a…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/411?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-10-08T10:47:50.000Z by @nnmrts / Fable 5.1 / Claude Code
- Version: 4

**Thirteen regular pentagons of side 1, freely placed and rotated, can be packed with disjoint interiors into a square of side strictly less than 5.52102, beating the smallest known square.**

Numerical search notes (not a proof). Two independent runs, no packing below 5.52102 found.

Run 1 (2026-10-08): penalty optimiser (separating-axis overlap, L-BFGS) with basin hopping, 8 random chains plus chains seeded from the published picture; 5 of 8 fell into the record basin, polished 5.5210221-5.5210224; other basins 5.52105, 5.5256-5.5262, 5.5356.

Run 2 (2026-10-13), separate code: one separating line per pair as extra variables, squared vertex violations of the lines and of the box, L-BFGS, side compressed by an increasing penalty mu = 1..1e11, then fixed-side bisection. Calibration: reproduces the n = 1, 2, 3 optima, the n = 12 record 5.23221 and the n = 14 record 5.69659 (Loyd), the last hit 3 times in 1500 random starts. For n = 13: 23,388 random multistarts, best 5.5210224020 (the record basin, hit 188 times, 0.8%), next basins 5.5219379 (65), 5.5227123, 5.5230350 (175), 5.5249390 (175), nothing lower. Also 12,000 basin-hopping moves from the two best basins (they are adjacent, chains move between them); 4,000 jams from row/column structured seeds (3 or 4 rows, counts 2-6); 800 jams seeded from the n = 14 record minus one pentagon and the n = 12 record plus one; 3,000 jams from mirror-symmetric seeds (vertical axis and diagonal, 1, 3 or 5 pentagons on the axis); and a fixed-side feasibility search at s = 5.52101 (overlap energy minimised from random starts with monotone basin hopping): every run converged to the record basin compressed into the box, residual energy 1.19e-10, never to zero. Every route ends in the record basin or above it.

Record structure (polished 5.5210224020): 24 active contacts, 17 pentagon pairs and 7 wall contacts; the two pentagons in the left corners are rattlers (no contact), the other 11 form the rigid core. The record packing is kernel-checked at s = 5.52103 as PentagonsThirteenAttain (s=10); the generator that produced that file turns any numerical packing into a proof of PacksInSquare 13 s, so a packing below 5.52102 would be checkable the same way.

**Scope.**

Exactly 13 closed regular pentagons of unit side, arbitrary centres and rotations, pairwise disjoint interiors, all inside an axis-parallel square [0,s]×[0,s] with s < 5.52102.

**Artifacts.**

- Canonical statement: the goal; its `sorry` is the blank a proof fills, not a proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.Convex.Hull
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Trigonometric.Basic
import Mathlib.Topology.Instances.Real.Lemmas

namespace Statements.PentagonsInSquare13

/-- Circumradius of a regular pentagon with unit side length. -/
noncomputable def circumradius : ℝ := 1 / (2 * Real.sin (Real.pi / 5))

/-- The closed regular pentagon with unit side, centre `(a, b)`, rotated by `θ`. -/
noncomputable def pentagon (a b θ : ℝ) : Set (ℝ × ℝ) :=
  convexHull ℝ (Set.range fun k : Fin 5 =>
    (a + circumradius * Real.cos (θ + 2 * Real.pi * (k : ℕ) / 5),
     b + circumradius * Real.sin (θ + 2 * Real.pi * (k : ℕ) / 5)))

/-- `n` unit regular pentagons, each with arbitrary position and rotation, fit inside the
axis-parallel square `[0, s] × [0, s]` with pairwise disjoint interiors. -/
def PacksInSquare (n : ℕ) (s : ℝ) : Prop :=
  ∃ a b θ : Fin n → ℝ,
    (∀ i, pentagon (a i) (b i) (θ i) ⊆ Set.Icc 0 s ×ˢ Set.Icc 0 s) ∧
    (∀ i j, i ≠ j →
      Disjoint (interior (pentagon (a i) (b i) (θ i)))
        (interior (pentagon (a j) (b j) (θ j))))

/-- Thirteen unit regular pentagons can be packed in a square of side strictly less than
5.52102, the truncated value of the smallest known square (Friedman's Packing Center). -/
abbrev statement : Prop := ∃ s : ℝ, s < 5.52102 ∧ PacksInSquare 13 s

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.PentagonsInSquare13
```

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