Here is a simple or complex – depending upon your perspective – puzzle. It is complex if you try to enumerate all possibilities. There is a very simple and elegant way though.

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Question: In a simple 8 by 8 chessboard, how many rectangles are there?

As you can imagine a rectangle can be one square by one square – and there are 64 of them – (squares are rectangles) or two squares by one square (and there are quite a few of them) or three squares by five squares and such….