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Created by evlPanda > 9 months ago, 9 Apr 2012
evlPanda
NSW, 9207 posts
10 Apr 2012 12:08AM
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Triangle made up of different building blocks.
Rearrange the blocks and a hole appears. Same triangle.

decrepit
WA, 12887 posts
9 Apr 2012 10:17PM
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Panda you're truly evil!!!!

cisco
QLD, 12365 posts
10 Apr 2012 12:33AM
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Pythagoras would not be impressed!!!!

elbeau
WA, 988 posts
9 Apr 2012 10:39PM
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I love this. Years ago I made a cardboard copy of this inside a drawn triangle. Mind boggling and very strange.

decrepit
WA, 12887 posts
9 Apr 2012 10:47PM
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total area = 13 x 5 /2 =32.5

red triangle = 8 x 3 /2 = 12
blue = 5 x 2 /2 = 5
yellow = 5 + 2 = 7
green = 5 + 3 = 8
total of parts = 32


Hmmmmmm????????

Mark _australia
WA, 23715 posts
9 Apr 2012 10:52PM
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Looks like Benetton sponsored the local kite competition
Seeing as though they need ramps and PVC rail slider doo-hickeys to copy every other kewl-OMG-I'm-so-sik sport

Oh yeah geometry. Sorry.......

Anway it is not a hole, a hole is enclosed on all sides.... it is a cut-out or checkout or groove, not a hole

That's why I didn't get it

decrepit
WA, 12887 posts
9 Apr 2012 10:58PM
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Mark _australia said...

>>>>>
Anway it is not a hole, a hole is enclosed on all sides.... >>>>


You could start an even deeper philosophical argument here Mark, does a hole have to be completly "enclosed"????

Mark _australia
WA, 23715 posts
9 Apr 2012 11:02PM
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decrepit said...

Mark _australia said...

>>>>>
Anway it is not a hole, a hole is enclosed on all sides.... >>>>


You could start an even deeper philosophical argument here Mark, does a hole have to be completly "enclosed"????


Of course it does.
Drill a hole in a flat board, it is a hole.
As soon as it contacts the edge and breaks through it is a checkout, groove, whatever, but not a hole
Pedantic - but nevertheless my excuse for not 'getting' the triangle puzzle

Squid Lips
WA, 708 posts
9 Apr 2012 11:04PM
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The red and blue triangles are not "similar", therefore the hypotenuse of the overall triangle is not a straight line

Mark _australia
WA, 23715 posts
9 Apr 2012 11:14PM
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Squid Lips said...

The red and blue triangles are not "similar", therefore the hypotenuse of the overall triangle is not a straight line



I had no idea then looked closer. Blue triangle is exactly 2:5 gradient.
Red triangle is about 1.8 or 1.9 :5

Well spotted! - not the same triangle

(and it is not a hole )

decrepit
WA, 12887 posts
9 Apr 2012 11:17PM
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Yeah when you draw the big triangle on graph paper, the red and blue triangles aren't exactly 8 x 3 or 5 x 2, it's slightly less than 2 and slightly more than 3.

So the hypotenuse either bends up or down.
Amazing how little is needed to give you an extra square.

Subsonic
WA, 3427 posts
9 Apr 2012 11:19PM
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Squid Lips said...

The red and blue triangles are not "similar", therefore the hypotenuse of the overall triangle is not a straight line




What he said, the hypotenuse on the red and blue triangles follow ever so slightly different angles I suppose this means technically theyre not true triangles?

Mark _australia
WA, 23715 posts
9 Apr 2012 11:21PM
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So u slide one along and it changes the angle slightly.

'panda has invented a variable rocker jig.

evlPanda
NSW, 9207 posts
10 Apr 2012 2:10PM
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Squid Lips said...

The red and blue triangles are not "similar", therefore the hypotenuse of the overall triangle is not a straight line




Correct. This trick was invented my a magician, so... well it's just some forum fun.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_square_puzzle

GreenPat
QLD, 4107 posts
10 Apr 2012 2:13PM
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Subsonic said...


What he said, the hypotenuse on the red and blue triangles follow ever so slightly different angles I suppose this means technically theyre not true triangles?


Blue is a true triangle, red is a true triangle, there are no other true triangles drawn there.

Poida
WA, 1922 posts
10 Apr 2012 1:03PM
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maths does not lie, but you can bend it

Subsonic
WA, 3427 posts
10 Apr 2012 7:53PM
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GreenPat said...

Subsonic said...


What he said, the hypotenuse on the red and blue triangles follow ever so slightly different angles I suppose this means technically theyre not true triangles?


Blue is a true triangle, red is a true triangle, there are no other true triangles drawn there.


yep, was referring to the two larger "triangles" not being triangles as one technically has four points and the other one has a fourth inverted point



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