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Leoman of the Flails wrote:Dear Mr Esmah,

Can you explain this puzzle to me?




(maybe if you arrange the blocks in another way it spells out "mathematicians should go outside!")

Curry's Paradox: How Is It Possible?

A New York city amateur magician Paul Curry invented the following paradox in 1953:

A right triangle with legs 13 and 5 can be cut into two triangles (legs 8, 3 and 5, 2, respectively). The small triangles could be fitted into the angles of the given triangle in two different ways. In one case a a 5×3 rectangle of area 15 is left over. In the other case, we get an 8×2 rectangle of area 16.

Which is a wonder in its own right.

Paul Curry has observed that (for n = 5) a 5×3 rectangle can be cut into two shapes that after a rearrangement fill an 8×2 rectangle with one square left out.

Curry himself has been interested in rearrangements that create holes entirely inside the resulting figure. But the variant with a square hole on the perimeter of the figure seems to me more popular nowadays.

Esmer wrote:

Leoman of the Flails wrote:Dear Mr Esmah,

Can you explain this puzzle to me?




(maybe if you arrange the blocks in another way it spells out "mathematicians should go outside!")

Curry's Paradox: How Is It Possible?

A New York city amateur magician Paul Curry invented the following paradox in 1953:

A right triangle with legs 13 and 5 can be cut into two triangles (legs 8, 3 and 5, 2, respectively). The small triangles could be fitted into the angles of the given triangle in two different ways. In one case a a 5×3 rectangle of area 15 is left over. In the other case, we get an 8×2 rectangle of area 16.

Which is a wonder in its own right.

Paul Curry has observed that (for n = 5) a 5×3 rectangle can be cut into two shapes that after a rearrangement fill an 8×2 rectangle with one square left out.

Curry himself has been interested in rearrangements that create holes entirely inside the resulting figure. But the variant with a square hole on the perimeter of the figure seems to me more popular nowadays.

Emotional Leper wrote:Esmer, how can the Emotional Leper perform penance for his sins, which are many, varied, and oft repeated?

A detached man, who knows he has no possibility of fencing off his death, has only one thing to back himself with: the power of his decisions. He has to be, so to speak, the master of his choices. He must fully understand that his choice is his responsibility and once he makes it there is no longer time for regrets or recriminations. His decisions are final, simply because his death does not permit him time to cling to anything.
And thus with an awareness of his death, with his detachment, and with the power of his decisions a warrior sets his life in a strategical manner. The knowledge of his death guides him and makes him detached and silently lusty; the power of his final decisions makes him able to choose without regrets and what he chooses is always strategically the best; and so he performs everything he has to with gusto and lusty efficiency. Don Juan Matus

Montressor wrote:Esmer, if you could, would you?

Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.

sgt.null wrote:is?

.is is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Iceland. Foreign entities have to appoint a local representative in Iceland and may ...
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I"s (アイズ Aizu) is a teenage romance manga by Masakazu Katsura. Originally serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump in Japan from 1997 to 1999, the series was collected into 15 volumes (tankōbon), the first of which was released in the United States by VIZ Media in March 2005.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I¨s

A system that provides forwarding functions or relaying functions or both for a specific ATM connection. OAM cells may be generated and received.
www.e-ratecentral.com/resources/help/glossary/i.asp

Intermediate System (ATM)
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(carcinoma in situ)
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(RFC 1983). An OSI system which performs network layer forwarding. It is analogous to an IP router.
filibusta.crema.unimi.it/docs/rfc/glossary.htm

Information Services, a portion of the NSF Cooperative Agreement awarded to General Atomics in 1993. IS is one of three services comprising the InterNIC.
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the price of a factor of production used in producing final output. Cost, together with the final price and quantity of output, is a key factor in economic decision-making. ...
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It is a system that learns during its existence. (In other words, it learns, for each situation, which response permits it to reach its objectives.) It continually acts, mentally and externally, and by acting reaches its objectives more often than pure chance would indicate. ...
www.intelligent-systems.com.ar/intsyst/glossary.htm

Information Services Details about program broadcast Set Top Box applications
www.st.com/stonline/press/news/glossary/i.htm

Image Stabilization. This is Canon's term for a lens which uses "vibration-detecting gyro sensors" to move the image-stabilizing lens group in parallel, counter-acting Camera Shake, so that you get a blur-free image when taking photos at low-shutter speeds.
www.digitaldingus.com/reference/definit ... ionsil.php

A collection of hardware and software components and interconnections, as well as the information contained within that collection and the facilities that contain and protect them.
securityviews.com/blog/it-security-glossary-and-acronyms/

A combination of information, information technology, and personnel resources that collects, records, processes, stores, communicates, retrieves, and displays either manually or with varying degrees of automation.
www.desc.dla.mil/DCM/Files/data%20dictionary.doc

AI's central office in London, England where research information is collected and where the movement's day-to-day campaigning is organized and monitored.
www.amnesty.ca/youth/youth_action_toolk ... across.php

Network.jpg (7532 bytes) Any equipment or interconnected system or subsystems of equipment that is used in the automatic acquisition, storage, manipulation, management, movement, control, display, switching, interchange, transmission, or reception of data and that includes computer software ...
https://ia.gordon.army.mil/iaso/lesson01.htm

The kind of software developed for use in general business operations, such as payroll software, accounting software, and billing software. Compare Applications programs, Real-time software, Shrink-wrap software, and Systems software.
www.construx.com/Page.aspx

a set of people, procedures and resources that collects, transforms and disseminates information in an organization; a system that accepts data resources as input and processes them into information products as output; a system that uses the resources of hardware, software and people to perform ...
www.321site.com/greg/courses/mis1/glossary.htm

the clear and simple use of this idiom ("The book is about space travel") has been distorted in the media. Beware of abusing it, as in the following examples:
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An optical or digital system built in to a lens for removing or reducing camera movement, most effective with telephoto or telephoto zoom lenses. Can be found on most of Canon's "L" range of lenses as well as mid-range lenses such as the EF 28-125 IS USM
www.all-things-photography.com/digital-dictionary.html

The minimum switching current is the minimum amount of current, normally expressed in amperes (A), that, when conducted by a standard PTC thermistor, is required to cause it to switch to its high resistance state.
www.rtie.com/ntc/glossary.htm

A range of devices that have been specifically developed for use in hazardous areas where an explosive mixture of air and gas or vapour is or may be present. ...
www.apollo-fire.co.uk/resources/glossary.htm

[is]. When the nominative is a noun' is' is used for plural as well as singular in the present tense of 'to be' :-The men is good. It is used in the same way with 'these', and with 'them' when 'them' means 'those': -These is good. Them is good. ...
www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fullte ... 4/pt_i.htm

force or presence, is a Greek word that could be used in periphrasis when talking about a person, just like kara, 'head'. "Greetings, Oedipus!" might be expressed as "Greetings, head of Oedipus!" Latin cortina, cauldron, is 'power of the horns', in-, and kerata, horns. ...
www.quantavolution.org/vol_13/firenotblown_27.htm

A system for managing and processing information, usually computer-based. Also, a functional group within a business that manages the development and operations of the business’s information
www.georgetown.edu/uis/ia/dw/GLOSSARY0816.html

Isotropic Steel: strip steel with both chemistry and manufacturing processes specifi cally designed to give the same mechanical properties in any direction along the length or across the width of the strip.
www.corusautomotive.com/en/reference/pu ... /glossary/

yahalom. It occurs only in these places, and cannot be identified; it is generally held not to be what is now known as the diamond. In Jer. 17: 1 the word is shamir. This is translated 'adament' in Ezek. 3: 9. ...
www.stempublishing.com/dictionary/186_214.html

basic minimum income for individual or families when the claimant and their partner are not in full-time paid work, ie less than 16 hours a week for the claimant and less than 24 hours a week for the partner and are not available for work. ...
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Emotional Leper wrote:Esmer:

tldr.

Brevity, sir, brevity!

sgt.null wrote:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ ... onPaul.jpg????

Zenlunatic wrote:How do you spell relief?

Loremaster wrote:Esmer, how do I know if you're real?