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‘Nasty’ Geometry Breaks a Decades-Old Tiling Conjecture

‘Nasty’ Geometry Breaks a Decades-Old Tiling Conjecture

[html]Mathematicians predicted that if they imposed enough restrictions on how a shape might tile space, they could force a periodic pattern to emerge. They were wrong.[/html]

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