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Two Proofs of the Equality of the Volumes of a Box and a Parallelepiped

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This Demonstration gives two proofs of equality of the volume of a box and a parallelepiped with the same base and height, by dissection and by Cavalieri's principle.

Contributed by: Izidor Hafner (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

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