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(Message started by: H0dgey on Nov 12^th, 2002, 3:49am)

Title: Mysterious triangle area?
Post by H0dgey on Nov 12^th, 2002, 3:49am

Hey can anyone shed some light on this problem for me, its really confusing i dont understand how you can have the same area of triangle being composed of seperate shapes with areas that dont change and completely fill the same area of triangle in one arrangment but in another they dont completley fill the same area despite from the previous triangle seing there sum comes to that of the triangle area...
any helpmuch appreciated...thanks

Title: Re: Mysterious triangle area?
Post by James Fingas on Nov 12^th, 2002, 9:13am

There is already a thread on this topic. Please see:

http://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=riddles_easy;action=display;num=1033223667