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| I admit that this puzzles me, but then again, it's the end of the working day. (URL) (25 years ago, 14-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) [Spoiler space added] Hmm, haven't checked all figures, but the two triangles are not similar (same shape): the green triangle has a slope of 2/5, the red triangle is 3/8. So the two aggregate figures (which appear to be triangles, but are (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| Steve Bliss <blisses@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message news:376526fe.117992...net.com... (...) Bingo. That is the answer to the problem. I had one similar to this in a gometry class once. It is a sort of optical illusion. The angles are close, but (...) (25 years ago, 16-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| (...) A very similar one is in my mothers' bundle of Lewis Carroll works, originally published before WWII... Jasper (25 years ago, 18-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| Kevin B wrote in message ... (...) Cool problem. I am actually visually able to see the fact that the "hypotenuse" of the combined area is not straight. I see the top hypotenuse as concave, and the lower as convex. It sometimes amazes me at the (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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