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No Rotation Dissection (Posted on 2004-10-19) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Take a square and cut it as you wish into a finite number of pieces. Rearrange the pieces without rotating or flipping any of them to form an new square that is rotated 45-degrees compared to the original.

No Solution Yet Submitted by Brian Smith    
Rating: 3.3333 (9 votes)

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Oops! | Comment 14 of 25 |

Jer you are, of course, right. I should have worked out the measurements before posting. On a 1x1 square, my "solution" would have an area of about 1.12 sq units (except that it isn't actually a square). It sure looked close in Visio, though.

 

Oh well, at least it makes a nice optical illusion.

Back to the drawing board.

 


  Posted by SteveH on 2004-10-20 13:57:47
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