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Paradox

October 4th, 2008
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13 Responses to “Paradox”

  1. c00t3r Says:
    August 15th, 2009 at 7:47 pm

    Omfg.
    I’m sitting here for like 20 minutes and still don’t get it O.o

  2. dj Says:
    August 23rd, 2009 at 3:25 pm

    its the angle of the triangles. if you look closely, the second triangle is just a little shorter. the smaller triangle in either of them has a slightly different angle A and B, however it’s not very noticeable

  3. TheGrayK Says:
    September 10th, 2009 at 7:07 pm

    That was tripping me out but Dj is correct
    oh man i was all like thats impossible lol

  4. bhatooth Says:
    September 27th, 2009 at 12:52 am

    or look at the red triangle the picture below takes more space at the top than the picture above and thats where the box goes

  5. Zach Says:
    November 13th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    If you actually look at it you will see that it is not a paradox. The pieces all work.

  6. orc001 Says:
    November 16th, 2009 at 10:42 am

    http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TriangleDissectionParadox.html

  7. fallout Says:
    December 11th, 2009 at 7:31 am

    definitely not a paradox.
    the triangles are symmetric and can be rearranged to look similar.
    It’s more of an illusion caused by the grids on the paper. Take the grid out, place one on top of the other, and you will see they are not the same size (or more mathematically, they do not take up the same area).

  8. Rachael Says:
    April 22nd, 2010 at 11:23 am

    Both the triangles are the same size and if you placed them on top of each other they would fit exactly. but have a look at the hypotenuse of the top triangle, it’s ever so slightly curved, and that is the secret.

  9. Meridith Rott Says:
    May 23rd, 2010 at 10:06 pm

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    June 11th, 2010 at 9:58 pm

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  11. jhay Says:
    September 28th, 2010 at 1:42 pm

    hmpt.guys there is no significant difference between the angLe but take a look at the red triangLe it was not exactLy as above >>>>>>>

  12. damian Says:
    November 22nd, 2010 at 7:43 pm

    It is not a triangle, it is just fourangle.

  13. Ben Says:
    October 23rd, 2011 at 11:46 pm

    +1 dj

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