How To Find The Area Of A Square Inside A Square

In the figure # 5 in the middle consists of 4 congruent triangles, the whole figure of 8 ones. So the halving is clear. If the start square has the area 2, green square has the area 1 and the length sqrt(2). The importance of this figure is the fact that the outer square has a rational, the inner one an irrational length. Sequence of Squares The red square has the side length a and thus the area a. One the other side there is the sum of all inner squares: A= a/2 + a/4+a/8+a/16+... = a(1/2+1/4+1/8+1/16+...). The series in brackets is geometric. It has the limit 1. Result: The sum of the areas of the inner squares approaches the area of the whole square. The binomial and the Pythagorean theorems use squares. You find more on my page Illustrations of Formulas

Square inside a Square If you measure a line (red) starting in a corner and going in one direction you get four points. If you connect them you get a square. Proof: The four triangles are congruent because of the theorem side/angle/side. The angle is the right angle in the middle. Thus the hypotenuses are equal and they are the sides of the figure. Its angles are 90.

What is a Magic 3x3 Square? ..............8....1....6........................ You can assemble the numbers 1 to 9 in a square, so that the sum of the rows, the . ..............3....5....7........................ columns, and the diagonals is 15. . ..............4....9....2........................ If you take the numbers 1 to 9, you have the standard square. .
What is a Palindrome? A palindrome is a word, which reads backwards the same as it does forwards. Well known examples are Anna or radar. You can apply this principle to numbers. For instance 1001 or 69896 are palindromes. 11x11 = 121 111x111 = 12321

1111x1111 = 1234321 ... 111 111 111 x 111 111 111=12345678987654321 11x111 = 1221 111x1111 = 123321 1 111x11111 = 12344321 ... 111 111 111 x 1 111 111 111=123456789987654321

What are Triangular Numbers?

These are the first 100 triangular numbers:

The sequence of the triangular numbers comes from the natural numbers (and zero), if you always add the next number:

1 1+2=3 (1+2)+3=6 (1+2+3)+4=10 (1+2+3+4)+5=15

... You can illustrate the name triangular number by the following drawing: