Timeline for Dissecting a square
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| May 26, 2011 at 13:47 | comment | added | Colin D Wright | You're getting closer to the solutions I have. I have three infinite families and a sporadic. The challenge is to show that these are all, and the question is what techniques people might suggest for approaching this. | |
| May 26, 2011 at 13:44 | history | edited | Beni Bogosel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 26, 2011 at 13:37 | history | edited | Beni Bogosel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 26, 2011 at 13:36 | comment | added | Colin D Wright | Draw a semicircle with one end at the centre and the other touching the side of the square in the middle. Rotate 180 degrees. Now you have a sort of Ying-Yang in a square. | |
| May 26, 2011 at 13:35 | comment | added | Joseph O'Rourke | @Beni: Do you mean, literally, "must contain a segment of this length"? | |
| May 26, 2011 at 13:29 | comment | added | Beni Bogosel | Present one of your many more solutions, to see where my answer is wrong. | |
| May 26, 2011 at 13:26 | comment | added | Colin D Wright | That's what I originally thought, but there are many, many more. Hence asking about how to prove the completeness of the enumeration. | |
| May 26, 2011 at 13:19 | history | answered | Beni Bogosel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |