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The Eleven Holes Puzzle<br />9 December, 2009Tofique Fatehi tofiquef@yahoo.comhttp://tofique.fatehi.us<br />Introduction<br />The Eleven Holes Puzzle is a neat jig-saw like puzzle with surprises in store. It has virtually nothing of mathematics in it, and yet, a lot of mathematics has gone into it in the making. Even if you are not mathematically-oriented, you can still enjoy the puzzle for its own sake, and if it stirs up your curiosity enough, you can go into some elementary concepts and learn them in a fun sort of a way. For those who are in for recreational mathematics in a more serious way, this can be a store house of inter-related ideas - beyond the elementary stage.  In short, there is something for everybody.<br />Let the Fun Begin<br />Open figure 1 of the diagram file. It shows a rectangle (50 X 31 in size). The rectangle has been dissected into 59 pieces which fit completely inside the rectangle. If you wish, you may take a printout of this figure and neatly cut out the 59 pieces. Use a thick, stiff paper or some thin cardboard. Preferably, have one face of the paper/ cardboard coloured with a different colour to distinguish the top and bottom sides of the pieces. Have a separate “board” of 50x 31 size to play on. Draw a diagonal across this board. Now arrange the pieces on the board as in figure 1.<br />Next, rearrange the pieces on the board as shown in figure 2. The 59 pieces still cover the entire board, but leaves one square “hole”. Where did the extra area for the “hole” come from?<br />Rearrange the pieces as shown in figure 3, and two holes appear. Go on to figure 4 and 5 and 6 ---and on till the last figure. Each successive figure has one more hole than the previous, till finally there are eleven holes. And note that all the 59 pieces are on the board in all of these figures. No piece has been removed to create a hole. How is that possible?<br />Let the Mathematics Begin<br />This puzzle has been “manipulated” by me based on Curry's Paradox.  I need not go into a full-fledged explanation on why or how this works, as this has already been done and is available on a number of internet sites. A good place to begin is: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_square_puzzle See also the related links towards the end of the above link page.<br />Let My “Manipulations” Begin<br />In creating this puzzle, I have used the Curry's Paradox over and over and over again. With some ingenious manipulations!<br />,[object Object]
There are 5 triangles of different sizes.
There are 24 identical pieces of one shape.
There are 30 identical pieces of another shape.The board has a diagonal across it. It has a rise of 31 in 50 i.e. a slope of 31/50 = 0.62<br />This is very close to the inverse of the “Golden Ratio”.<br />(For definitions of the Golden Ratio and Fibonacci Series see:  http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.golden.ratio.html It will be useful further on.)<br />I will use the slope of the diagonal of 0.62 as a “standard” for this puzzle.<br />The 5 triangles have been derived from a segment of the Fibonacci Series - 5, 8, 13, 21, … which would give me triangles of (5, 8), (8, 13) and (13, 21).<br />Now I have scaled some triangles in order to create 11 holes.  Thus my triangles, in order of magnitude are:<br />,[object Object]
(10, 16) which is (5, 8) scaled to twice the size (10/16 = 0.625 - more than standard)
(13, 21) as it is (13/21 = 0.619048… less than standard)
(15, 24) which is (5, 8) scaled to thrice the size (15/24 = 0.625 - more than standard)
(16, 26) which is (8, 13) scaled to twice the size (8/13 = 0.615285… less than standard)This being so, when a triangle is placed along the diagonal with one corner exactly on the diagonal, the other corner either “undercuts” or “overshoots” the diagonal by a wee bit that is hardly perceptible to a naked eye (unless you zoom in). Now, at any point on the diagonal, if the triangles on either side of the diagonal are both “undercutting” a small gap is created, whereas if they both are “overshooting” there is a small overlap of the two triangles. And it is precisely these gaps/overlaps that create extra or intra areas for the holes! (Hmmm... intra? is that a dictionary word? As long as it conveys the sense - who cares?)<br />It may appear at first sight that the gaps/overlaps could have the ability to create as many as 11 holes without being “detected” by the naked eye. But just consider - 11 holes have an area of 11 square units. And this is spread over the length of the diagonal which is more than 58.8 units, giving an average width of 0.187 units. The maximum may be at the most twice this figure, but it is not so, as half the time there is a gap and half the time there is an overlap. Furthermore, the total area of the full board is 50x31 = 1550 … and 11 is not even close to 1% of that area!<br />The remaining 54 “stepped” pieces required a lot of ingenious manipulation so as to get the least number of varieties of shapes. I have managed with just two varieties of shapes. This would be quite useful, if these are to be mass produced as a toy. Not too many dies to be made. <br />Except as otherwise expressly permitted under copyright law, no copying, redistribution, retransmission, publication or commercial exploitation of this material will be permitted without the express permission of the copyright owner. In the event of any permitted copying, redistribution or publication of copyright material, no changes in or deletion of author attribution, trademark legend or copyright notice shall be made. You acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by downloading this copyrighted material.<br />190500<br />
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The Eleven Holes Puzzle

  • 1.
  • 2. There are 5 triangles of different sizes.
  • 3. There are 24 identical pieces of one shape.
  • 4.
  • 5. (10, 16) which is (5, 8) scaled to twice the size (10/16 = 0.625 - more than standard)
  • 6. (13, 21) as it is (13/21 = 0.619048… less than standard)
  • 7. (15, 24) which is (5, 8) scaled to thrice the size (15/24 = 0.625 - more than standard)
  • 8. (16, 26) which is (8, 13) scaled to twice the size (8/13 = 0.615285… less than standard)This being so, when a triangle is placed along the diagonal with one corner exactly on the diagonal, the other corner either “undercuts” or “overshoots” the diagonal by a wee bit that is hardly perceptible to a naked eye (unless you zoom in). Now, at any point on the diagonal, if the triangles on either side of the diagonal are both “undercutting” a small gap is created, whereas if they both are “overshooting” there is a small overlap of the two triangles. And it is precisely these gaps/overlaps that create extra or intra areas for the holes! (Hmmm... intra? is that a dictionary word? As long as it conveys the sense - who cares?)<br />It may appear at first sight that the gaps/overlaps could have the ability to create as many as 11 holes without being “detected” by the naked eye. But just consider - 11 holes have an area of 11 square units. And this is spread over the length of the diagonal which is more than 58.8 units, giving an average width of 0.187 units. The maximum may be at the most twice this figure, but it is not so, as half the time there is a gap and half the time there is an overlap. Furthermore, the total area of the full board is 50x31 = 1550 … and 11 is not even close to 1% of that area!<br />The remaining 54 “stepped” pieces required a lot of ingenious manipulation so as to get the least number of varieties of shapes. I have managed with just two varieties of shapes. This would be quite useful, if these are to be mass produced as a toy. Not too many dies to be made. <br />Except as otherwise expressly permitted under copyright law, no copying, redistribution, retransmission, publication or commercial exploitation of this material will be permitted without the express permission of the copyright owner. In the event of any permitted copying, redistribution or publication of copyright material, no changes in or deletion of author attribution, trademark legend or copyright notice shall be made. You acknowledge that you do not acquire any ownership rights by downloading this copyrighted material.<br />190500<br />