Re: Divide a shape into four equal parts

On Tue, 1 Jul 2025 19:01:29 +0000, Richard Tobin wrote:

A well-known puzzle is to divide an L-shape - a square with one square
quarter removed - into four identical pieces.
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But what about a square where the quarter removed is an isosceles
right-angled triangle with one of the sides as its hypotenuse?
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This problem was set in Peter Parley's Annual, 1877, but I fear that
they are no longer available to provide the answer:
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https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/BZUAAOSwPqVlS8OY/s-l1600.jpg
or
https://web.archive.org/web/20250701185837/https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/BZUAAOSwPqVlS8OY/s-l1600.jpg
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-- Richard

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