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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