Square covering disk

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This question comes from TOT Fall 2017 Senior A Level.

Is it possible to cut the 1 × 1 square into two parts which can cover a disk of diameter greater than 1?

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The picture below gives a possible answer: the brown piece is cut out of the square and moved to a new position (gray) to cover the two small circle segments lying outside the square.

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On the rule, each figures never overlap.

Note 1 the number of circles are $1,4,9,16$ is optimal packing. enter image description here

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Those divisions include just circle with diameter 1. Therefore it's impossible.