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Cutting polygons (Posted on 2006-09-24) Difficulty: 3 of 5
Describe how every simple polygon can be tranformed into any other simple polygon with the same area by dissecting it with straight cuts and rearranging the pieces.

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re: spoiler | Comment 4 of 9 |
(In reply to spoiler by Art M)

I can transform a triangle into a rectangle, that's fine.

My rectangle is now something like 10^x times its width.  How do I transform this into a square?

I also realise that this spoiler is intended for a 'one-stop' situation.
After explaining this, how do I use this idea to step from an e-gon to an s-gon?

I suspect JLo is asking for a general case where the order may be smaller or larger than the polygon in focus.

Edited on September 26, 2006, 3:08 am
  Posted by brianjn on 2006-09-26 02:56:20

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