MAKING A SQUARE.
‘Here is something I picked up in Chicago last' year,” ©aid Pilson, who was addicted, to travelling. “Can you cut' the figure into four pieces each of exactly the same size and ©hape that will fit together and form & perfect square?” They made various attempts, some confining themselves to diagram® and the less expert to rather hopeless trials with the penknife or scissors after cutting the figure out. (But in the end Wigham had to ©how them th© solution which as he said is “absurdly easy when you know how to -proceed.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1930, Page 11 (Supplement)
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95MAKING A SQUARE. Taranaki Daily News, 18 December 1930, Page 11 (Supplement)
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