Cutting a cube
How many straight cuts does it take to separate a cube into 27 unit cubes, even if you can rearrange the pieces?
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What is the area of the shaded square?
Four congruent right triangles. Two marked lengths.
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Four equal regions: two bisections and a turn
Two easy bisections leave one imbalance. A quarter-turn suggests how to remove it—but we must account for the jumps in a point count.
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Strong Measurability and Adapted Approximations with Applications to Non-Markovian Control
Measurability and adapted approximation tools for metric-space-valued maps, with applications to path-dependent stochastic control.
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University of Calgary
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