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    Tangram Paradox

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    Definition

    A dissection fallacy discovered by Dudeney. The same set of tangram pieces can apparently produce two different figures, one of which is a proper subset of the other. This seems true only at a first glance: in reality the area is the same in both cases, since in the left picture the missing foot is compensated by a larger body.

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