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Darren New wrote:
> There's another cool one, I don't remember what it's called, that proves
> you can chop up a filled-in circle (I.e., a 2D slice thru a ball,
> whatever you call that) and then put it back together again as a perfect
> square, with no overlaps and no gaps.
>
> Personally, I can't imagine how that can be possible, but you can
> apparently do it with sufficiently many cuts.
Yes - wasn't that proven only recently?
The remarkable thing, in case anyone didn't glean it from Darren's
description, is that this can be done with a *finite* number of cuts. I
recall it was a huge number, though.
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