Thursday 17 May 2012

SOLVED: Challenge Question 1

If you are the first to solve this problem I will give you complete set of the Richard Feynman Lectures on Physics (read up upon the Feynman Lectures on Physics).

Question:
Take a square of arbitrary side length and construct four new squares with a side length half of the original positioned in the corners a quarter of the way down and across the two sides creating the corner. This would look like:


Then in each of the new squares in the furthest corner from the first square create a new square with half the side length a quarter of the way down and across the two sides creating the corner. Repeat this step for each newly constructed square to it infinity. To help visualise this I have created another graphic:


The question is, what proportion of the total area of the squares are overlapping with another square?

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1 comment:

  1. I want to know how to work out the new co-ordinates for a point when rotated by an angle relative to another point. help me with math

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