By George Hart for the Museum of Mathematics

If youre a cabinet maker, geometry is essential to all of the lengths and angles that you calculate. The cabinet shown here goes further and presents the solution to a rather difficult dissection problem. This is the simplest perfect squared square. The entire area is a square and it is divided into squares of distinct integer sizes.

There are twenty one different squares, with the sizes indicated below, covering a 112 by 112 area.

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Images captured by five Axis IP cameras recently led to the arrest of thieves that broke into one of Scotland’s leading refrigeration and catering equipment suppliers. The Glasgow-based HiTec Refrigeration was first notified of the break-in by their alarm system. However, when security personnel arrived the thieves were long gone.

Lucky for the company, the thieves’ crime spree was captured on camera despite their efforts to disable the Axis cameras. Security personnel were able to provide the police with high-quality footage the clearly revealed the identity of the thieves. Bas

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Matthew Davidsons brother built him an “>enclosure for his modular synthesizer. It looks very slick!

ve been slowly building my modular over the last 10 years or so. It started with a 6U Doepfer Basic System I bought used from Germany, with the details of the transaction hashed out via bablefish. Back then, the euro format was supported by three small companies and their presence in the United States was minimal at best.

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Axis recently announced a new PTZ dome camera with HDTV quality video and 360-degree panoramic view. Featuring two different lenses, the P5544 is part of Axis’ collection of Panopsis cameras.

This unique network camera offers powerful surveillance features like mechanical pan, tilt and 18x zoom. It’s an ideal solution for applications that require the best of both words: sharp, detailed images and wide, overall surveillance. Having two lenses enables the camera to maintain image quality even when zooming in to identify people or other fine details.

The P5544 meets HDTV quality standards and offers 1280×720 resolution, autofocus and day/night functionality.

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As bedroom is the most relaxing corner of any house, it must be equipped with the best furniture. You can adorn it with various wooden bedroom furniture pieces that are carved in various designs and come in stylish, elegant and long lasting finish.

You should consider few factors while designing or selecting furniture for your bedroom including various other aspects. The size of the furniture being used in bedroom is the foremost thing to be considered. It is better to have an idea of the size of the space available while you head for shopping. Even when you are going for upgrading your bedroom furniture, make sure that your bedroom does not become too full with bulky furniture pieces.

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