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Macaulay's Triangle and Trapezoid Hinged Dissection

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The Demonstration shows Macaulay's hinged dissection of a triangle to another triangle of equal base and height, and its generalization to trapezoid-to-trapezoid dissection.

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, Hinged Dissections: Swinging & Twisting, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002 p. 29.

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