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Going one Better in Geometric Dissections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

H. Lindgren
H. Lindgren*
Affiliation:
Patent office, Canberra
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Methods have been described that facilitate the discovery of economical dissections. They are summarized in §§ 1 and 2 that follow.

1. Each of the figures to be dissected is made an element of a strip with parallel sides; 1 and 2 show strips formed from a Latin or tau cross and a pentagon. The first is a P-strip (prototype parallelogram), in which all elements are the same way up. The second is a T-strip (prototype trapezium), in which alternate ones are inverted. Points such as A and B in 1 are called congruent, a term copied from Whittaker and Watson's Modern Analysis, p. 430.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 45 , Issue 352 , May 1961 , pp. 94 - 97
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1961

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