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Curry Triangle (mathworld.wolfram.com)
38 points by lemonspat on Dec 26, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 9 comments


Can this link be updated to the Wikipedia page?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_square_puzzle

It has much clearer explanations, both written and visual. Really it's a stretch to say the Wolfram page explains anything at all, it just states it can't be how it appears.


The Wolfram page says they are similar, so can't have areas with that relation. But isn't it that they aren't similar, so can? Wikipedia seems to say the opposite of Wolfram, but I could have misread.


Agreed. The Wolfram page is crap compared to Wiki




When I saw this thread this is exactly what I was expecting (read: craving).


My first thought was to Rusholme



Simple explanation: small and large triangles pieces don't have the same angles, so the assembled triangles are not pure triangles




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