>>>Get 20 spheres of styrofoam or something similar, and paste them together, into four pieces, like this:
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>>Hilmar,
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>>Is this it?
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>>1 long, 2 short on the bottom
>>1 long verticle in the center
>>2 short across
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>>Renoir
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>place 2 short ones at right angles to each other
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> 0 0
> x x x
> 0 0
> x x x
> 0 0
>
>(difficult to draw)
Yes, that is the key to the solution. In your drawing, I changed the "o"-s of one figure to "x"-s, to distinguish the figures.
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