120-Year-Old Math Mystery Finally Solved – Dudeney’s Dissection Proven Optimal!

Now I can finally sleep at night!...........................

Ping?.........................

What a relief!

I always just used a blender.

Wake me when bureaucrats accept that Milton Friedman had the optimal solution to debt & inflation.

I don’t feel so bad. I’m still working on my algebra homework.

Glad this is solved.
Now for that single red sock that is missing from my laundry.

[[Mathematicians have proven that Henry Dudeney’s 1907 four-piece dissection of an equilateral triangle into a square is optimal]]

Pffft, I coulda told them that decades ago, but no one bothered to ask me! (I kid, I am terrible at maths)

Had a dog that routinely ate socks. Get a new pair.

Tangrams were always fun...

Yeah, wth, it seems optimal to throw four pieces of equilateral caution to the winds and ping it.

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Mathematicians have proven that Henry Dudeney’s 1907 four-piece dissection of an equilateral triangle into a square is optimal.

I can't tell you how many bar bets I've won because I knew this.

I don’t feel so bad. I’m still working on my algebra homework.

Well, my dog ate my homework.

A square has 4 corners. If you cut up an equilateral triangle trying to make a square you have to have at least four pieces.How else are you going to arrive at 4 corners?

I can't tell you how many bar bets I've won because I knew this.

Zero?

More winning from Trump!

I can't tell you how many bar bets I've won because I knew this.

Zero?

Wow! Right on the nose!

How else are you going to arrive at 4 corners?

an equilateral triangle cut in to two pieces will produce 1 piece with 4 corners and 1 piece with 3 corners (one case - bisected - will produce to congruent triangles - each with 3 corners).