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| Title: | Mathematics at DEC | 
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| Moderator: | RUSURE::EDP | 
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| Created: | Mon Feb 03 1986 | 
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Number of topics: | 2083 | 
| Total number of notes: | 14613 | 
565.0. "<><><>   Gaining or losing a unit of area   <><><>" by THEBUS::KOSTAS (Wisdom is the child of experience.) Fri Aug 15 1986 12:12
    Well,
    
        I will not be around (for the next 4 weeks) to see the 
    solution to this problem but I will enter it any way:
    
       An  8  by  8  square, area  64, is cut and rearranged 
       as a rectangle,  5  by  13,  area  65, or as a bouble-flag,
       area 63. What is the explanation?
    
    
    Enjoy,
    
    Kostas G
    
    
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name
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| 565.1 | I don't understand the question | MODEL::YARBROUGH |  | Fri Aug 15 1986 13:24 | 1 | 
|  |     What is a bouble-flag?
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| 565.2 | Where's the extra unit? | SMURF::DIKE |  | Fri Aug 15 1986 13:39 | 7 | 
|  |     I think I saw this question before in this file, but I don't remember
    where.   Any way, the answer is...
    
    ...the extra unit is hidden in a little slice of empty space that
    runs the length of the diagonal of the figure.
    				Jeff
    
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