Inside this regular octagon sit two squares of area 8. What’s the area of the shaded rectangle?pic.twitter.com/FgdfcoY1aj
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I really like the way these A-size rectangles and half-squares can tile together. Lots of interesting things to see. What size regular octagons can we make?pic.twitter.com/Esi7y1YSHb
My whole goal was to identify the correct building blocks for the figure. Once I had done so, everything about it seemed straightforward. And how did I identify these correct building blocks? By symmetrizing the figure, of course. Clearly it needed four squares, not two.
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