These Shapes are the Same

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Thanks to Dima Smirnov and Zivvy Epstein for letting us use their program to help visualize dissection. You can try it for yourself!

http://dmsm.github.io/scissors-congru...

Further Reading:

http://press.princeton.edu/chapters/s...

http://web.mit.edu/tabbott/www/papers...

Hinged Dissections: Swinging and Twisting, by Greg N. Frederickson

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