# Weird triangles!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/weird-triangles/187878>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [May 2, 2006, 10:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/weird-triangles/187878 "2006-05-02T22:53:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 1\
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**Author:** ![Kyri](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@Kyri](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Kyri)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2006, 10:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/weird-triangles/187878/1 "2006-05-02T22:53:00Z")

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![](http://forum.kirupa.com/uploads/kirupa/2433/7cc9774a1edacd93.gif)

How the heck is that possible? If you add up all the areas of the individual pieces, shouldn’t it be the same as the area of the large triangle…?