A path from A to B consists of several piecewise straight segments (where b \neq A). A flea starts from point P and for each segment, it performs the following operation:
If the segment starts at X and ends at Y, and the flea is currently at Z, the flea will jump to the point Z' such that XZYZ' is a parallelogram (in that order).
The flea starts from P and performs the operation on the segments sequentially until it is done with the last segment, where the flea is now in Q. Prove that APBQ is a parallelogram.
Thursday, November 12, 2009
Path and Parallelogram
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Combinatorics,
flea,
Geometry,
jump,
parallelogram,
path,
piecewise,
segment
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