Construct a right triangle of area 8 out of three other right triangles with areas 1, 3 and 4.

(In reply to ascii art by Robby Goetschalckx)

Yes, there does not seem to be a unicode character to represent 45º oblique lines, at least I have found one.

Yours might be edited such that the middle oblique does form a 'connected' straight line, pad out the horizontal and make the hypotenuse a line of "."  or "+", or similar.

But that's up to you, if you care to bother.

Posted by brianjn on 2008-12-09 08:06:06