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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7tRr49qZfo

So, how do you account for this well known trick?

you really can't work it out for yourself

Nice one. I think I've worked it out:

No you havent.

I presume lines that are supposed to be parallel aren't.

http://andyburns.uk/misc/chocolate-trick.png

Ah, the difference is that the combined length is shorter. I hadn't
spotted that. I wondered whether the difference was that the diagonal
edges of the two pieces were not quite parallel, and that the area of the
extra piece was the area of a triangular air gap between the pieces. But I
was wrong.

there is a similar trick where that's the answer

but not this one

tim