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Half Squared (Posted on 2004-04-08)

Given a square piece of paper, show how by creasing and folding only, a square of half the area of the original can be obtained.

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What is a way to do this with the condition that one of the smaller square's corners must be at a corner of the larger square? How many folds would this take?

Posted by Gamer on 2004-04-08 09:12:54

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