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This is a link post Crating chocolate out of nothing
Makes me crazy crazy crazy hrgh.
(I helped save b3ta! Rafi took last proton-pump inhibitor on, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 10:53, , Reply)
This is a normal post Yay maths!

(I helped save b3ta! flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:17, , Reply)
This is a normal post No matter how many times I see this,
I can't quite get my head around it.

That, I suspect, is why I'm not a mathematician. Or maybe because. Or both.
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This is a normal post Magnets?

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This is a normal post this is how they make chocolate bars smaller every year

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This is a normal post This actually makes me physically uncomfortable
Someone explain before I'm sick.
 (I helped save b3ta! Fishcat Difficult difficult lemon difficult., Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:48, , Reply)
This is a normal post Look at the size of the blocks along the diagonal break
They are smaller after the rearranging of the pieces. The total area missing is that one extra block he took out.

Something along those lines anyway
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This is a normal post They aren't obviously smaller as far as I can see...

(I helped save b3ta! Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:58, , Reply)
This is a normal post They are a 5th of a block smaller, each.
that is all.
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This is a normal post The word 'obviously' is key here!
Our eye finds it hard to spot that kind of small difference in a regular pattern, especially when it's broken up along a line.

There are other similar cut-and-rearrange paradoxes that break the missing square into a long thin diamond shape as well, but this one is particularly neat.
 (I helped save b3ta! flatfrog Staring vacantly into space, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:24, , Reply)
This is a normal post Stop cutting up chocolate bars and eating the spare pieces

(I helped save b3ta! wakeupandsmellthebacon, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:51, , Reply)
This is a normal post But I've got an infinite chocolate machine now!
What else am I supposed to do?
 (I helped save b3ta! Fishcat Difficult difficult lemon difficult., Tue 1 Oct 2013, 11:59, , Reply)
This is a normal post It's a bit weird that you've
given your bumhole a nickname.
 (I helped save b3ta! Tab Hunter Make this useless process end and so, begin again, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:19, , Reply)
This is a normal post It's a variation of the "Missing square puzzle"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_square_puzzle
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This is a normal post But that one is because of a bent hypotenuse
Any yet... these ones still fit together along the diagonal line, meaning it is presumably straight. But it can't be. And my brain hurts.

I'm clearly too dense for this shit.

Edit: Actually there is a gap. Ish. Yeah?
 (I helped save b3ta! Fishcat Difficult difficult lemon difficult., Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:09, , Reply)
This is a normal post ^This^
This book is full of lovely stuff like that. Well worth £7.
www.amazon.co.uk/Mathematics-Magic-Mystery-Dover-Books/dp/0486203352/ref=sr_1_12?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1380626649&sr=1-12&keywords=maths+magic
 (I helped save b3ta! Fray Brentos *mega-belms*, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 12:29, , Reply)
This is a normal post Here
Similar version in a handy graphic
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This is a normal post Pah, it's not even real chocolate
I feel cheated.
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This is a normal post I bummed a rabbit

(chompedhomas, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 15:22, , Reply)
This is a normal post Misleading video name
he didn't 'make' chocolate, and he 'made' it out of chocolate.

Worse yet, he tainted the chocolate with a bit of maths. YUCK!
 (I helped save b3ta! gaijintendo Regular Member, Tue 1 Oct 2013, 18:39, , Reply)