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formulas for calculating the area of parallelograms and triangles Figure 11: Construction for the dissection of parallelograms (see text). Figure 13: Constructions for the equivalence by dissection of (left) squares and (right) parallelograms (see text). Figure 12: Construction for the proof of equivalency of parallelograms by dissection (see text). vector parallelogram for addition and subtraction
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