New answers tagged dissection
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Dissect this figure into four pieces which can be reassembled to form a square
Bad drawn simple solution with holes:
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Dissect this figure into four pieces which can be reassembled to form a square
A very ugly and unorthodox solution
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Dissect this figure into four pieces which can be reassembled to form a square
An infinite number of less symmetric solutions without holes also exist.
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Dissect this figure into four pieces which can be reassembled to form a square
A solution to the original question, without holes.
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Dissect this figure into four pieces which can be reassembled to form a square
A mildly unorthodox way:
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Dissect this figure into four pieces which can be reassembled to form a square
Quite simple solutions (with holes):
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Dissect this figure into four pieces which can be reassembled to form a square
Here's an obvious way... but you will probably prefer something without holes.
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Dissecting a square
A near miss for $D=5$ and $N=7$, with $12$ polyominoes and largest area $8$ instead of $\le 7$:
The underlying $5$-regular connected planar graph is the icosahedral graph.
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