A Dudeney's triangle made with four pieces: three quadrilaterals and one right(-angled) triangle.
A Dudeney's square made with four pieces: three quadrilaterals and one right(-angled) triangle.

Henry Dudeney was an English author and mathematician who specialised in logic puzzles and mathematical games. He introduced the hinged dissection of a triangle into a square in his 1907 book The Canterbury Puzzles. He exhibited a model in mahogany at the Royal Society of London in 1905.

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