Curry Triangle Paradox

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When reassembling the four pieces in the figure to another triangle, one square is left empty. How is this possible? This problem was invented by Paul Curry in 1953.

Contributed by: Arne Eide (May 2012)
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In the solution, you can see a very narrow parallelogram of area 1.



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