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Modern Puzzles by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $132$
- The Garden Bed
- Here is quite a simple little puzzle.
- A man has a triangular lawn of the proportions shown,
- and he wants to make the largest possible rectangular flower-bed without enclosing the tree.
- This will serve to teach the uninitiated a simple rule that may prove useful on occasion.
- For example, it would equally apply to the case of a carpenter who had a triangular board
- and wished to cut out the largest possible rectangular table-top without including a bad knot in the wood.
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Sources
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Geometrical Problems: Various Geometrical Puzzles: $132$. -- The Garden Bed
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Geometrical Problems: Triangle, Square & Other Polygon Puzzles: $262$. The Garden Bed