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#1 2008-07-07 15:17:29
- ZHero
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Squares from sticks..
How do you make six squares, each of area
, out of twelve given sticks each of length ??If two or more thoughts intersect, there has to be a point!
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#2 2008-07-07 15:24:28
- JaneFairfax
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Re: Squares from sticks..
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#3 2008-07-07 21:48:01
- ZHero
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Re: Squares from sticks..
JaneFairfax wrote:
OMG!
This of course was easy!
But wasn't quite obvious/practical for me (was it?)!
Thanks JaneFairFox!
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#4 2008-07-08 02:03:35
- Kurre
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Re: Squares from sticks..
How do you make four equilateral triangles with sides l, using 6 sticks with length l?
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#5 2008-07-08 02:44:10
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Re: Squares from sticks..
Kurre wrote:
How do you make four equilateral triangles with sides l, using 6 sticks with length l?
The answer, i believe, would be to make a regular 'TetraHedron' (on the same grounds as JaneFairFax)!
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