Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles/109 - Squaring a Star/Solution/Historical Note
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Modern Puzzles by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $109$
Dudeney attributes this result to Edward Brind Escott.
Martin Gardner erroneously references the dissections illustrated by Harry Lindgren as Figures $3.3$ and $3.4$ in his Geometric Dissections, but these appear to be of the regular hexagon to the square.
Sources
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Solutions: $109$. -- Squaring a Star
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Answers: $332$. -- Squaring a Star