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I am delighted to have the opportunity to contribute to this Collection honouring Martin Gardner. I once wrote a paper for his column in Scientific American, about dissections of rectangles into squares [7]. Perhaps another article on dissections would be appropriate here.
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Tutte, W.T. (1981). Dissections into Equilateral Triangles. In: Klarner, D.A. (eds) The Mathematical Gardner. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6686-7_15
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