Timeline for Uniqueness of an equilateral triangle decomposition into three similar polygons, exactly two congruent
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| May 25, 2014 at 1:05 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | @GerryMyerson: Posted some fractal solutions. Cool! | |
| May 25, 2014 at 0:44 | history | edited | Gerry Myerson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 25, 2014 at 0:42 | comment | added | Peter Dukes | Wow... suddenly I feel proud I found this same solution on my own! (didn't even seem that hard) Anyway, my question was about uniqueness of this solution. Thank you for the context, though, and I like the fractal solution! | |
| May 25, 2014 at 0:41 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | @Joseph, OP specifically asks for polygons. At the link, Schere also gives a solution in which the pieces are fractals. | |
| May 25, 2014 at 0:36 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | Nice, Gerry! I have no confidence this is the unique solution, especially in light of its unexpectedness. Perhaps this is the unique 5-vertex polygonal solution, but it is not even clear to me a solution must be polygonal... | |
| May 25, 2014 at 0:02 | history | answered | Gerry Myerson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |