A standard piece of wood (one that can be found at just about any wood store), is cut with two straight cuts. After being cut, the wood will fit perfectly through three holes: circle, square, and triangle. What piece of wood was used, and how was it cut?

Are you saying that this piece of wood has 3 "profiles" with these three shapes? (Viewed from a point on some line passing through the center of the piece, the "shadow" of the piece of wood makes a shape which I am calling its "profile.)

Or are you saying that there are three holes such that the cut piece of wood will fit through them with two or more pionts grazing the edges?

Or Something else, altogether?

The first can be accomplished with one cut, The second seems to be missing key information, and the third.....

Posted by TomM on 2002-05-30 11:13:09