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===Principle=== [[File:Missing_square_puzzle_simple.svg|thumb|100px|More obvious using Fibonacci ratios 1:2 and 2:3]] According to [[Martin Gardner]],<ref> {{cite book |last= Gardner |first= Martin |title= Mathematics Magic and magic |year= 1956 |publisher= Dover |pages= 139β150 |isbn= 9780486203355 }}</ref> this particular puzzle was invented by a [[New York City]] amateur magician, [[Paul Curry]], in 1953. However, the principle of a dissection paradox has been known since the start of the 16th century. The integer dimensions of the parts of the puzzle (2, 3, 5, 8, 13) are successive [[Fibonacci numbers]], which leads to the exact unit area in the ''thin parallelogram''. Many other geometric [[dissection puzzle]]s are based on a few simple properties of the Fibonacci sequence.<ref>{{cite web |publisher=Math World |last=Weisstein |first=Eric |title=Cassini's Identity |url=http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CassinisIdentity.html}}</ref>
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