Sujet : Re: Divide a shape into four equal parts
De : carlgnews (at) *nospam* microprizes.com (Carl G.)
Groupes : rec.puzzlesDate : 04. Jul 2025, 16:47:04
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On 7/1/2025 7:36 PM, IlanMayer wrote:
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
SPOILER <snipped>
Ilan,
I had considered writing a computer program to solve this puzzle and similar puzzles. Did you write a program to solve this puzzle? If so, what algorithm did it use?
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Divide a shape into four equal parts
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