Date: 24/08/2015 13:28:12
From: CrazyNeutrino
ID: 765473
Subject: Attack on the pentagon results in discovery of new mathematical tile
Attack on the pentagon results in discovery of new mathematical tile
Joy as mathematicians discover a new type of pentagon that can cover the plane leaving no gaps and with no overlaps. It becomes only the 15th type of pentagon known that can do this, and the first discovered in 30 years
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Date: 24/08/2015 13:31:22
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 765477
Subject: re: Attack on the pentagon results in discovery of new mathematical tile
Interesting stuff, thanks.
Date: 24/08/2015 15:12:19
From: mollwollfumble
ID: 765520
Subject: re: Attack on the pentagon results in discovery of new mathematical tile
Until I followed the link I didn’t believe it. I had thought this puzzle had been definitively solved.
For quite a few years I was playing around with tessellations in 2-D and honeycombs in n-D. I even tried unsuccessfully to write a computer program to compute them with arbitrary combinations of polygons, not just convex ones.