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Re: can someone explain this? - 11-01-2006, 09:42 PM

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Originally Posted by donau
I'd agree with the first part of your solution. The gradients are different and therefore the two composite figures that look like triangles are not actually triangles at all. The hypotenuses are not straight lines but each have an angle to them, one inwards and the other outwards. Therefore there is a difference in the space used. And in this puzzle seems to be exactly 1 square.
After obsessing over this puzzle for about an hour, making my own diagrams etc. ...I totally agree with you donau.

I really like these types of mathematical puzzles. An interesting thread DocM
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