At a workshop it was suggested that it likely remains an open problem whether or not there is a 3- <strike>or 2</strike> -piece <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Dissection.html">dissection</a> of a square to an equilateral triangle. Can anyone confirm that this is unresolved? Four-piece dissections are known, the most famous being Henry Dudeney's century-old gem: <br /> <img src="https://i.sstatic.net/BHW7F.gif" /> <img src="https://i.sstatic.net/Bpbrv.gif" /> <br /> <sub> [Maple animation from this <a href="http://www.maplesoft.com/applications/view.aspx?SID=6499">link</a>.] </sub> <br /> _______________ *Update* (6Dec2024). Now proved impossible. "Dudeney's Dissection is Optimal." Erik D. Demaine, Tonan Kamata, Ryuhei Uehara. [arXiv abs](https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.03865). [1]: http://www.markus-goetz.de/puzzle/0041.html