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The Pisa experiment

Four squares and an altitude to the top vertex form a right yellow traingle. What is the proportion yellow : green?

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Solution

Yellow : green is 64 : 65.

Solution by Rony Sarker.

Poem

The Pisa tower
The tower is leaning
A strange sensation for this building
Moving on an underlying
Silt
A frightening sensation
Leaning or collapsing
May be one day crashing
The italians worry
For their tower and it’s history
It’s surely not perfection
Compared to a big cake

Bella

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