MHB Solve the ANUTter Puzzle: 5 Matches & 2 = 6

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5 matches arranged to show 2 = 6:
|| = \/|

Move 1 match only such that both sides are equal...
 
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|| ≠ \/
 
[sp]$11=\text{XI}$[/sp]
 
Olinguito, you cheated :)

Klass, good try...but not mine...
 
$$1 = \sqrt{1}$$
 
Right on, buddy!
 

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Seemingly by some mathematical coincidence, a hexagon of sides 2,2,7,7, 11, and 11 can be inscribed in a circle of radius 7. The other day I saw a math problem on line, which they said came from a Polish Olympiad, where you compute the length x of the 3rd side which is the same as the radius, so that the sides of length 2,x, and 11 are inscribed on the arc of a semi-circle. The law of cosines applied twice gives the answer for x of exactly 7, but the arithmetic is so complex that the...
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