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This is driving me crazy! How can the area of each shape be different when they are made of equally sized shapes?
I never was any good at maths!
Weird maths puzzle.
by dmouse 3 Replies latest jw friends
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RunningMan
The pieces that are sliced by the diagonal lines in different directions, are not exactly the same size. They are very, very, close, but a little bit smaller. Your eye can't detect the variances in a drawing of this scale when the pieces are reassembled with slight overlaps.
The newly assembled rectangle doesn't actually fit perfectly. But it fits close enough to look perfect on a small scale.
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Aztec
Whoa! Is that origami cause I can make a mean paper crane?
~Aztec
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Panda
AHA! That's a Chinese math puzzle! And if you actually do this yourself with a grid paper yu'll see that they aren't exactly equal.