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Freese's Two Dissections of a Regular Pentagon into Five

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This Demonstration shows two of Freese's dissections of a regular pentagon into five smaller regular pentagons.

Contributed by: Izidor Hafner (May 2018)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

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The photo is from [1, plate 52]. The plate contains three dissections. The first dissection is in [2].

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[1] G. N. Frederickson, Ernest Irving Freese's Geometric Transformations: The Man, the Manuscript, the Magnificent Dissections!, New Jersey: World Scientific, 2018.

[2] I. Hafner, "Hinged Dissection of One Pentagon to Five Pentagons," from the Wolfram Demonstrations Project—A Wolfram Web Resource. demonstrations.wolfram.com/HingedDissectionOfOnePentagonToFivePentagons.

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