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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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Length times width, right? Then I believe you could just fold the paper in half twice.

Posted by Brittany on 2004-04-12 02:18:22

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