27 Apr
2014
27 Apr
'14
6:56 a.m.
In fact, the definition of scissors congruence, and the statement of a theorem implying what Gareth said, is in the freely readable portion of this 1963 paper: < http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02759727#page-1 >. --Dan Gareth McCaughan wrote: << Simon Plouffe wrote: << Apparently there is a way to take a circle and CUT it into pieces a finite number of times and then recombine all this into a circle.
Only if you define "cut" in the usual Banach-Tarski-ish way (i.e., = "decompose"). You can't do it with the kinds of cut you would get from scissors.