Chord-bisecting Chords

A circle of radius 5 has chord AB with length 6.  A second chord is drawn here and is bisected by AB.

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Sierpinski Pyramid

Let’s remove the central portion of a regular tetrahedron such that what remains are 4 tetrahedrons each with half of the side length of the original.

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Nonlinear Dots

Here’s a way to put 6 dots into a 3x3 grid such that no 3 dots form a straight line.

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Point in a Polygon

For any point inside a square, the sum of the distances from this point to the four sides is half of the perimeter.

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Squares in Squares

Let’s draw a smaller square inside a unit square by dividing out a fixed fraction of each side and connecting the dividing point to an opposite angle.

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3D Sudoku

Imagine instead of a two dimensional grid, we are now filling a 3D grid made up of nxnxn unit cubes with numbers 1 to n such that every row, column, and depth has exactly one of each number.

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Triangles in a Square

This problem is inspired by this geometry puzzle on Twitter. The original problem asks to find the ratio between two equilateral triangles fitted into a square.  Let’s generalize it.

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Numbers of Polycubes

Let’s define polycubes as three dimensional shapes made up of unit cubes connected by shared faces.

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Flattening Cubes

We want to flatten the outer shell of a cube without tearing or stretching the surface.

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Cube Solids

For all questions in this problem, let’s ignore the effects of gravity, which means higher unit cubes can float in space without lower unit cubes to support them.

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