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3 Comments
Jacob · December 12, 2012 at 6:17 pm
Five hundred and thirty triangles in all, am I correct?
Thomas · December 13, 2012 at 10:19 am
What method did you do to get 530 triangles in total? I got 485 triangles instead as the total.
Jacob · December 13, 2012 at 6:12 pm
I must have miscounted somewhere. You’re right, I recounted.