On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 23:58:25 -0500, Mueen Nawaz <m.n### [at] ieeeorg>
wrote:

>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.

Do you mean that someone has managed to square the circle?
I thought that it had been proved to be impossible in the 19th century
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Regards
     Stephen

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