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-This is one
of many hinged dissections of one regular polygon into another.
See Greg Frederickson's book, "Hinged Dissections: Swinging and
Twisting".
-This object
is made from mahogany and brass.
-According
to Martin Gardner, Dudeney presented a similar mahogany and brass
model to the Royal Society in 1905.
-For more
information on dissections, see
M. Gardner, The 2nd Scientific American
Book of Mathematical Puzzles & Diversions, 1st ed.,
Simon and Schuster, New York, 1961, pp. 32-36.
M. Gardner,
The Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical
Diversions, 1st ed., Simon and Schuster, New York, 1986, pp.
43-51.
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