144.--THE CROSS AND THE TRIANGLE.

From Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney.

Cut a Greek cross into six pieces that will form an equilateral triangle. This is another hard problem, and I will state here that a solution is practically impossible without a previous knowledge of my method of transforming an equilateral triangle into a square (see No. 26, "Canterbury Puzzles").

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