Equidissection
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- History
- Monsky's theorem
- Generalizations
- Related problems
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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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