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Re:A puzzle: dissect a square into congruent pieces, all tou... by vanishing on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @04:43PM (#2585469)
Ah, yes. You can also rotate the 8-fold solution by 22.5 degrees for another solution.
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Re:A puzzle: dissect a square into congruent pieces, all tou... by vanishing on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @04:46PM (#2585482)
Right. As I said, I'm weak in math.
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Re:A puzzle: dissect a square into congruent pieces, all tou... by ColinWright on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @04:58PM (#2585529)
You can't be that weak at what I call math, although your experiences with math education might be unhappy ones. You have found more solutions than I first found - that can't be bad.

Half my life is spent helping people discover that they're good at "proper math" even when they think they're bad at "school math."

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Re:A puzzle: dissect a square into congruent pieces, all tou... by ColinWright on Wednesday May 25, 2011 @04:44PM (#2585476)
Hmm. Don't think so.
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