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by pozorvlak 5510 days ago
puzzles

Oh, right - you can vary the shape of the diagonal lines, provided each "arm" has rotational symmetry about its mid-point.

OK, so we've got three infinite families and the trivial solution (only one piece - is that your sporadic solution?). I think that might be all: each piece can contain 4, 2, 1 or 1/2 of the original square's corners, since (lacuna) all pieces must contain the same number of corners and further subdividing the corners (into 1/3s, say) would mean some pieces don't touch the centre (another lacuna).

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OK, that's now the set of solutions I've got. You've also gone some way to showing them to be complete.

More to do, though.

And now do it for an equilateral triangle.

OK - I've now seen a "solution" with 16 "pieces."

My head hurts.