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Expressions · Superchallenge problem

Square tables seat one person on each open side. Tables are pushed together to make a rectangle 22 tables wide and nn tables long, and only the outside edges of the rectangle have seats. (Two tables alone, side by side, seat 66 people.) What is the smallest total number of tables needed to seat 100100 people this way?