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Planar Sections

Friday, May 28th, 2010 by lucas

Here’s another one that we never solved.

Does a polyhedron exist with all of its plane sections triangular?

[Engel, Problem Solving Strategies 12.3.2 #60]

Tags: Geometry, Unsolved
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Bugs on a Polyhedron

Thursday, May 20th, 2010 by lucas

“Associated with each face of a solid convex polyhedron is a bug which crawls along the perimeter of the face, at varying speed, but only in the clockwise direction. Prove that no schedule will permit all the bugs to circumnavigate their faces and return to their initial positions without incurring a collision.” [Peter Winkler, Mathematical Puzzles, p. 82.]

Tags: Unsolved
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