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thumb|A 6-equidissection of a square

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  • Overview
  • Definitions
  • Preliminaries
  • Best results
  • History
  • Monsky's theorem
  • Generalizations
  • Related problems
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • External links

thumb|A 6-equidissection of a square

In geometry, an equidissection is a partition of a polygon into triangles of equal area. The study of equidissections began in the late 1960s with Monsky's theorem, which states that a square cannot be equidissected into an odd number of triangles. In fact, most polygons cannot be equidissected at all.

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