I’ve just (re)seen a famous geometry teaser and decided to share it with you. Just take a look at the image below. What happens is that in both cases you build a large triangle out of the same pieces, but in one case a square is missing. How is that possible?
January 16, 2007 at 11:38 am
if it only wasn’t so old:)
January 16, 2007 at 2:21 pm
Didn’t I say that? watch the diagonal line, is it really covering the same amount of the little squares in both images? No??
September 22, 2008 at 5:56 pm
It’s actually quite simple if you start seeing beyond the implied hypotheses that the large figures are single triangles. They are not.
http://www.marktaw.com/blog/TheTriangleProblem.html