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  2. Missing square puzzle - Wikipedia

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    Splitting the thin parallelogram area (yellow) into little parts, and building a single unit square with them. The key to the puzzle is the fact that neither of the 13×5 "triangles" is truly a triangle, nor would either truly be 13x5 if it were, because what appears to be the hypotenuse is bent.

  3. Varignon's theorem - Wikipedia

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    An arbitrary quadrilateral and its diagonals. Bases of similar triangles are parallel to the blue diagonal. Ditto for the red diagonal. The base pairs form a parallelogram with half the area of the quadrilateral, A q, as the sum of the areas of the four large triangles, A l is 2 A q (each of the two pairs reconstructs the quadrilateral) while that of the small triangles, A s is a quarter of A ...

  4. Quadrilateral - Wikipedia

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    Rhomboid: a parallelogram in which adjacent sides are of unequal lengths, and some angles are oblique (equiv., having no right angles). Informally: "a pushed-over oblong". Not all references agree; some define a rhomboid as a parallelogram that is not a rhombus. [4] Rectangle: all four angles are right angles (equiangular). An equivalent ...

  5. Area of a triangle - Wikipedia

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    The oriented relative area of a parallelogram in any affine space, a type of bivector, is defined as ⁠ ⁠ where ⁠ ⁠ and ⁠ ⁠ are translation vectors from one vertex of the parallelogram to each of the two adjacent vertices. In Euclidean space, the magnitude of this bivector is a well-defined scalar number representing the area of the ...

  6. Kite (geometry) - Wikipedia

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    Like kites, a parallelogram also has two pairs of equal-length sides, but they are opposite to each other rather than adjacent. Any non-self-crossing quadrilateral that has an axis of symmetry must be either a kite, with a diagonal axis of symmetry; or an isosceles trapezoid , with an axis of symmetry through the midpoints of two sides.

  7. Equable shape - Wikipedia

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    For example, if shape has an area of 5 square yards and a perimeter of 5 yards, then it has an area of 45 square feet (4.2 m 2) and a perimeter of 15 feet (since 3 feet = 1 yard and hence 9 square feet = 1 square yard). Moreover, contrary to what the name implies, changing the size while leaving the shape intact changes an "equable shape" into ...

  8. Golden rectangle - Wikipedia

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    The parallelogram between the pair of upright grey triangles has perpendicular diagonals in ratio ⁠ ⁠, hence is a golden rhombus. If the triangle has legs of lengths 1 and 2 then each discrete spiral has length φ 2 = ∑ n = 0 ∞ φ − n . {\displaystyle \varphi ^{2}=\sum _{n=0}^{\infty }\varphi ^{-n}.}

  9. Honeycomb conjecture - Wikipedia

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    A regular hexagonal grid This honeycomb forms a circle packing, with circles centered on each hexagon. The honeycomb conjecture states that a regular hexagonal grid or honeycomb has the least total perimeter of any subdivision of the plane into regions of equal area.