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Cutting planes with polygons (Posted on 2006-09-06) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Into how many regions can you partition the plane with m n-sided regular polygons?

For example, with two squares you can achieve up to 10 regions by choosing the right size and position of your squares.

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Hmmm, it seems that you would be able to do 2n+2 regions with 2 n-sided polygons, in the same way as with squares (putting them on top of each other and then rotating one slightly).

For three squares, i'm guesstimating from a sketch that you can get 22 regions.


  Posted by vswitchs on 2006-09-06 13:24:27
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