{"id":924,"date":"2019-04-14T09:13:19","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T13:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josmfs.net\/?p=924"},"modified":"2024-04-14T10:37:35","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T14:37:35","slug":"two-block-incline-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/2019\/04\/14\/two-block-incline-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Block Incline Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-922\" src=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Two-Block-Incline-fig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"163\" \/>Since everyone by now who has any interest has gone directly to Catriona Shearer\u2019s Twitter account for geometric puzzles, I was not going to include any more. But this one with its one-step solution is too fine to ignore and belongs with the \u201c5 Problem\u201d as one of the most elegant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo squares sit on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle. What\u2019s the angle?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Two-Block-Incline-Answer.jpg\">Answer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Two-Block-Incline-Puzzle-190414a.pdf\">Two Block Incline Puzzle<\/a> for a solution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>(Update 4\/26\/2019)<\/strong><!--more-->Yikes! Another mental hiccup (though there is a more colloquial phrase). I just happened to reread the solution and discovered a misleading typo, which I have corrected. Proof-reading is clearly not one of my skills. I shudder to think of all the other mistakes in my postings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since everyone by now who has any interest has gone directly to Catriona Shearer\u2019s Twitter account for geometric puzzles, I was not going to include any more. But this one with its one-step solution is too fine to ignore and belongs with the \u201c5 Problem\u201d as one of the most elegant. \u201cTwo squares sit on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,13],"class_list":["post-924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles-and-problems","tag-catriona-agg","tag-plane-geometry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3856,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924\/revisions\/3856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josmfs.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}