Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles/121 - Paper Folding
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Modern Puzzles by Henry Ernest Dudeney: $121$
- Paper Folding
- This is a branch of puzzledom both instructive and interesting.
- I do not refer to folding paper into the forms of boxes, boats, frogs, and such things,
- for these are toys rather than puzzles,
- but to the solving of certain geometric problems with paper and fingers alone.
- I will give a comparatively easy example.
- Suppose you are given a perfectly square piece of paper,
- how are you going to fold it so as to indicate by creases a regular hexagon,
- as shown in the illustration, all ready to be cut out?
- Of course, you must use no pencil, measure, or instrument of any kind whatever.
- The hexagon may be in any position in the square.
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Sources
- 1926: Henry Ernest Dudeney: Modern Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Geometrical Problems: Paper-Folding Puzzles: $121$. -- Paper Folding
- 1968: Henry Ernest Dudeney: 536 Puzzles & Curious Problems ... (previous) ... (next): Geometrical Problems: Paper Folding Puzzles: $361$. Folding a Hexagon