27 Apr
2014
27 Apr
'14
3:28 a.m.
On 27/04/2014 02:00, Simon Plouffe wrote:
I did not know that such a construction was possible.
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. (And of course exactly one instance of "circle" there should be "square".) -- g