Updates to Chapter 8, "Stepping Around",
in Hinged Dissections: Swinging & Twisting, by Greg N. Frederickson

A different dissection of hexagons for 1 : 2 : 2 :: 3

Robert Reid's 7-piece dissection of hexagons for 1 : 2 : 2 :: 3 leaves the 1-hexagon uncut and cuts each of the 2-hexagons. It is possible to find a 7-piece dissection in which one of the 2-hexagons is uncut:



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