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January 30, 2020 05:08 pm PST
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How many triangles do you see?
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Sure, you can count them. I did, and, er, I missed a few. Or you can take one of the approaches suggested by the mathematics professors that Andrew Daniels interviewed in Popular Mechanics:
I would approach this just like one approaches any mathematical problem: reduce it and find structure, says Sylvester Eriksson-Bique, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow with the University of California Los Angeless math department.
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