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Pointing upwards

A square containing two equilateral triangles. What’s the proportion blue : orange?

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Solution

Blue : orange is (2+√3)/4.

Solution by ricardpe.

Poem

Pointing upwards
The arrow shoots up
Light
Lace of stones
All the way up
No sounds
No noises
Only the immensity
Of the sky vault
Encounter between the visible
And the invisible
Pointing to the sky
A poem carved in stone

Bella

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