The Weaver

The Eight-Triangle Alternating-Pivot Square-Root Ribbon: An Open Mathematical Challenge

The Weaver & Wit — Open Mathematical Mischief, No. 1. We propose a chain of right triangles with unit legs and successive hypotenuse lengths √2, √3, … . After each group of eight triangles, the construction swaps which endpoint is the pivot and reverses the perpendicular turn. In...