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wu :: forums    riddles    medium (Moderators: Icarus, Eigenray, william wu, towr, SMQ, Grimbal, ThudnBlunder)    3x1 rectangle to square « Previous topic | Next topic » Pages: 1 2  Reply Notify of replies Send Topic Print    Author  Topic: 3x1 rectangle to square  (Read 7190 times) JocK Uberpuzzler     Gender: Posts: 877 Re: 3x1 rectangle to square   « Reply #25 on: Feb 14th, 2005, 11:19am » Quote Modify Nice concerted effort for the easier problem (all squares allowed to be differently sized). Only one case can be improved I think.     IP Logged solving abstract problems is like sex: it may occasionally have some practical use, but that is not why we do it. xy - y = x5 - y4 - y3 = 20; x>0, y>0. towr wu::riddles Moderator Uberpuzzler Some people are average, some are just mean.     Gender: Posts: 13730 Re: 3x1 rectangle to square   « Reply #26 on: Feb 14th, 2005, 2:02pm » Quote Modify duh, yeah.. 7 = 3+4 Cut the square in 4, then cut one of the smaller squares in 4 again. IP Logged Wikipedia, Google, Mathworld, Integer sequence DB Pages: 1 2  Reply Notify of replies Send Topic Print Forum Jump: ----------------------------- riddles -----------------------------  - easy => medium   - hard   - what am i   - what happened   - microsoft   - cs   - putnam exam (pure math)   - suggestions, help, and FAQ   - general problem-solving / chatting / whatever ----------------------------- general -----------------------------  - guestbook   - truth   - complex analysis   - wanted   - psychology   - chinese « Previous topic | Next topic »

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