Parallelogram Slide

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This three-piece dissection converts one parallelogram to another with the same angles but a different base. Harry Lindgren calls this technique a parallelogram slide or a P-slide.

Contributed by: Izidor Hafner (March 2011)
Based on work by: Greg N. Frederickson
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


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G. N. Frederickson, Dissections: Plane & Fancy, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997, 2002 pp. 32–33.



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