347.--COUNTING THE RECTANGLES.

From Amusements in Mathematics by Henry Ernest Dudeney.

Can you say correctly just how many squares and other rectangles the chessboard contains? In other words, in how great a number of different ways is it possible to indicate a square or other rectangle enclosed by lines that separate the squares of the board?

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