Pentagon-to-Near-Square Dissection

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to parallelogram
step 1
to rectangle
step 2
to near-square
step 3
This Demonstration shows a pentagon-to-near-square dissection.

Details

The dissection was derived by Lindgren (1953) while analyzing comments by Dudeney (1917).

References

[1] G. N. Frederickson, Dissections: Plane & Fancy, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002 pp. 275–276.

External Links

Dissection of a Pentagon to Almost a Square
Brodie's Pentagon-to-Square Dissection

Permanent Citation

Izidor Hafner
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​"Pentagon-to-Near-Square Dissection"​
​http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/PentagonToNearSquareDissection/​
​Wolfram Demonstrations Project​
​Published: May 9, 2012