Today Puzzle #576
Puzzle No. 576鈥� Thursday 26 September
Your friend hands you six matches and asks whether you can arrange the matches to form exactly four equilateral triangles. Can you do it?
Today’s #PuzzleForToday has been set by School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sheffield.
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You can do this by arranging the six matches to form a three dimensional pyramid with a triangular base and three triangular sides rising from the base. This object is called a regular tetrahedron, and is one of five Platonic solids considered by the ancient Greeks.
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