Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!decvax!cca!ima!inmet!porges From: porges@inmet.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: re: Canadians - (nf) Message-ID: <1821@inmet.UUCP> Date: Sun, 18-Nov-84 01:21:37 EST Article-I.D.: inmet.1821 Posted: Sun Nov 18 01:21:37 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Nov-84 02:39:42 EST Lines: 15 #R:watrose:-710200:inmet:4500164:000:418 inmet!porges Nov 16 13:28:00 1984 >From llmiller@watrose: > >> Oh come on! >> >> To divide a square into 8 squares you just cut it in half, >> cut the halves in half, then slice them all horizontally. > >You must have written the recipe! Do you recall the definition >of a "square" from high-school geometry? -- not so fast. By horizontally, he means "parallel to the table". You end up with eight squares, each half as deep as the original four.