Some Curious Cut-Ups

Jeremiah Farrell; Ivan Moscovich

Some Curious Cut-Ups

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Abstract

We have noticed a certain kind of n-gon dissection into triangles that has a wonderful property of interest to most puzzlists. Namely that any two triangles have at least one edge in common yet no two triangles need be congruent. In an informal poll of specialists at a recent convention, none of them saw immediately how this could be accomplished. But in fact it is very straightforward.

Original language	American English
Journal	Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Volume	1
State	Published - Jan 1 2009

Keywords

curious cutups
g4g9
gathering for gardner
geometry
puzzles
puzzlists
trigonometry

Disciplines

Geometry and Topology
Mathematics
Other Mathematics

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Some Curious Cut-Ups

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