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  2. Missing square puzzle - Wikipedia

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    However, the blue triangle has a ratio of 5:2 (=2.5), while the red triangle has the ratio 8:3 (≈2.667), so the apparent combined hypotenuse in each figure is actually bent. With the bent hypotenuse, the first figure actually occupies a combined 32 units, while the second figure occupies 33, including the "missing" square.

  3. List of satellite map images with missing or unclear data

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    This is a list of satellite map images with missing or unclear data. Some locations on free, publicly viewable satellite map services have such issues due to having been intentionally digitally obscured or blurred for various reasons of this. [ 1 ]

  4. List of map projections - Wikipedia

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    Projects the globe onto eight octants (Reuleaux triangles) with no meridians and no parallels. 1909 Cahill's butterfly map: Polyhedral Compromise Bernard Joseph Stanislaus Cahill: Projects the globe onto an octahedron with symmetrical components and contiguous landmasses that may be displayed in various arrangements. 1975 Cahill–Keyes projection

  5. Dymaxion map - Wikipedia

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    Instead each triangle's three edges on the Dymaxion map match the scale along the corresponding arcs of great circles on the Earth (modeled as a sphere), and then the scale diminishes toward the middle of the triangle. [3] The transformation process was formally mathematically defined in 1978. [4] [5] [6] [7]

  6. Geodesics on an ellipsoid - Wikipedia

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    the inverse geodesic problem or second geodesic problem, given A and B, determine s 12, α 1, and α 2. As can be seen from Fig. 1, these problems involve solving the triangle NAB given one angle, α 1 for the direct problem and λ 12 = λ 2 − λ 1 for the inverse problem, and its two adjacent sides.

  7. Langley's Adventitious Angles - Wikipedia

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    In 2015, an anonymous Japanese woman using the pen name "aerile re" published the first known method (the method of 3 circumcenters) to construct a proof in elementary geometry for a special class of adventitious quadrangles problem. [7] [8] [9] This work solves the first of the three unsolved problems listed by Rigby in his 1978 paper. [5]

  8. Bellman's lost-in-a-forest problem - Wikipedia

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    Bellman's lost-in-a-forest problem is an unsolved minimization problem in geometry, originating in 1955 by the American applied mathematician Richard E. Bellman. [1] The problem is often stated as follows: "A hiker is lost in a forest whose shape and dimensions are precisely known to him.

  9. Solution of triangles - Wikipedia

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    Solution of triangles (Latin: solutio triangulorum) is the main trigonometric problem of finding the characteristics of a triangle (angles and lengths of sides), when some of these are known. The triangle can be located on a plane or on a sphere. Applications requiring triangle solutions include geodesy, astronomy, construction, and navigation.