Henry Ernest Dudeney/Puzzles and Curious Problems/194 - Cutting the Veneer
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Puzzles and Curious Problems by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $194$
- Cutting the Veneer
- A cabinetmaker had a perfect square of beautiful veneer
- which he wished to cut into $6$ pieces to form three separate squares, all different sizes.
- How might this have been done without any waste?
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Sources
- 1932: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Puzzles and Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Geometrical Problems: Dissection Puzzles: $194$. -- Cutting the Veneer
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Geometrical Problems: Dissection Puzzles: $357$. Cutting the Veneer