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Statement
If a triangle has a tiling by congruent triangles not similar to , its tile count cannot be square unless either
- is isosceles, or
- its angles can be labeled with and , where are positive integers and is a square.
This is a necessary exception list for a given non-reptiling, not a claim that every isosceles triangle has a square non-reptiling.
Source and scope. Beeson–Laczkovich–Zhang, arXiv:2604.03609v3, Theorem 3, p. 2; proof p. 21. Complete rewritten deduction from the linked same-paper results and their explicit external dependencies.
Proof
Assume is not isosceles. By Theorem 11 and Proposition 13, the tiling belongs to one of the six table rows. Rows 2, 3, 4, and 6 have nonsquare counts by Propositions 26, 28, 27, and 30, respectively. Row 1 is nonsquare by Proposition 31.
Thus a square count can occur only in row 5, where and . Proposition 29 identifies precisely its square criterion. In the notation , , it is the second exception above.
The proof does not depend on the secondary uniqueness claim in Theorem 32.
Bears on. Problem 633.