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How did Gauss characterize the metrical relations in the uniform (4 4 4) tiling of the hyperbolic unit disk?
My purpose is to verify an historical hypothesis I have on Gauss's tesselation of the unit disk as described in John Stilwell "Mathematics and its history". Looking at the relevant pages in ...
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How to divide a square into three similar rectangles
Preparing some exercises for my High School pupils I came across this question: How can you tile a square into three similar (ie., same shape, different size) rectangles?
With a bit of algebra it can ...
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