# Equal perimeters of squares and right angled isosceles triangles

Consider a square ABCD having length l and breadth. Now start folding the sides AB and AC so that the figure becomes something like this 

All the vertical and horizontal folds/stairs are equal in length.

The perimeter of the figure is equal to the the perimeter of the square.

As we increase the number of divisions, the length of each fold/stair decreases. Let the number of stairs/folds be n. As $n\rightarrow\infty$ the figure becomes a right angled isosceles triangle BCD. The perimeter of triangle BCD should be equal to the perimeter of square ABCD since as we increase the number of folds/stairs the perimeter remains the same.

Can anyone please correct me where I have gone wrong?

• You are perfectly correct, except when you say that the perimeter of the limit is the limit of the perimeters. – AlainD Jun 7 '14 at 16:34

The question Is Pi equal to 4? Does the same thing, using a circle inside of a square and slowly removing rectangles from the sides of the square and then using $circumference=2\pi r$ to say that $\pi$ is equal to 4. The answers there will probably answer this quite well.
If a sequence of paths converges (even uniformly) to a path $P$, that doesn't mean that the sequence of their lengths converges to the length of $P$.