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In this paper, we show that an equilateral triangle cannot be dissected into finitely many smaller equilateral triangles, no two of which share two vertices. We do this without the use of Electrical Networks.

History and Overview · Mathematics 2014-12-18 Timothy Chu

We enumerate all dissections of an equilateral triangle into smaller equilateral triangles up to size 20, where each triangle has integer side lengths. A perfect dissection has no two triangles of the same side, counting up- and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-04-06 Ales Drapal , Carlo Hamalainen

Given a collection of N rectangles such that the side ratio of each one is a quadratic irrationality, we find all rectangles which can be tiled by rectangles similar to one of the given ones. It means that each possible shape can be used…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-06 Fyodor Sharov

We prove the theorem in the title, and prove the theorem for 11 as well as 7. By previous work of others, the problem reduces to a number of cases. The cases not solved already are solved here.

History and Overview · Mathematics 2019-06-18 Michael Beeson

Let $ABC$ be an equilateral triangle. For certain triangles $T$ (the "tile") and certain $N$, it is possible to cut $ABC$ into $N$ copies of $T$. It is known that only certain shapes of $T$ are possible, but until now very little was known…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-30 Michael Beeson

We study the dissection of a square into congruent convex polygons. Yuan \emph{et al.} [Dissecting the square into five congruent parts, Discrete Math. \textbf{339} (2016) 288-298] asked whether, if the number of tiles is a prime number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Hui Rao , Lei Ren , Yang Wang

Starting with any nondegenerate triangle we can use a well defined interior point of the triangle to subdivide it into six smaller triangles. We can repeat this process with each new triangle, and continue doing so over and over. We show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-07-15 Steve Butler , Ron Graham

We give a formula for counting the triangles in a picture consisting of the three sides of a triangle and some cevians. This lets us prove statements that are claimed without proof in the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences and some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-28 Jim Propp , Adam Propp-Gubin

We prove that, for sufficiently large $n$, every graph of order $n$ with minimum degree at least $0.852n$ has a fractional edge-decomposition into triangles. We do this by refining a method used by Dross to establish a bound of $0.9n$. By a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-17 Peter J. Dukes , Daniel Horsley

We show that any surface of infinite type admits an ideal triangulation. Furthermore, we show that a set of disjoint arcs can be completed into a triangulation if and only if, as a set, they intersect every simple closed curve a finite…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2021-02-19 Alan McLeay , Hugo Parlier

We show that for any n divisible by 3, almost all order-n Steiner triple systems have a perfect matching (also known as a parallel class or resolution class). In fact, we prove a general upper bound on the number of perfect matchings in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-29 Matthew Kwan

We present a, hopefully, elementary mathematical treatment of the computational aspects of congruent numbers, such that an amateur could understand the problem and perform their own calculations.

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-04 Allan J. MacLeod

We define a triangle design as a partition of the set of lines of a projective space into triangles, where a triangle consists of three pairwise intersecting lines with no common point. A triangle design is balanced if all points are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Minjia Shi , Xiaoxiao Li , Denis S. Krotov

A tiling is a decomposition of a polygon into finitely many non-overlapping triangles. We prove that if a regular n-gon, $n \geq 5$, $n \neq 28$, can be tiled with similar right triangles, then one of the angles of these triangles is in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-23 Ivan Vasenov

We give three new proofs of the triangle inequality in Euclidean Geometry. There seems to be only one known proof at the moment. It is due to properties of triangles, but our proofs are due to circles or ellipses. We aim to prove the…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2020-01-30 Norihiro Someyama , Mark Lyndon Adamas Borongan

Given a set $P$ of $n$ points in the plane, its separability is the minimum number of lines needed to separate all its pairs of points from each other. We show that the minimum number of lines needed to separate $n$ points, picked randomly…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Sariel Har-Peled , Mitchell Jones

We consider the problem of optimizing the product of the distances from a given point in a triangle to each vertex. There are two possible cases in general. For isosceles triangles, we explicitly show exactly when both cases occur.

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Tommy Murphy , Kevin Tran

In this paper, we deal with a simple geometric problem: Is it possible to partition a rectangle into $k$ non-congruent rectangles of equal area? This problem is motivated by the so-called `Mondrian art problem' that asks a similar question…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-21 C. Dalfó , M. A. Fiol , N. López , A. Martínez-Pérez

We study side-lengths of triangles in path metric spaces. We prove that unless such a space X is bounded, or quasi-isometric to line or half-line, every triple of real numbers satisfying the strict triangle inequalities, is realized by the…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2014-11-11 Michael Kapovich

An equilateral triangle cannot be dissected into finitely many mutually incongruent equilateral triangles [Tutte 1948]. Therefore Tuza [Tuza 1991] asked for the largest number $s=s(n)$ such that there is a tiling of an equilateral triangle…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-03-26 Christian Richter
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