Timeline for Tiling a rectangle with a hint of magic
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| Jun 15, 2010 at 1:41 | history | edited | Gerry Myerson | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
improved formatting
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| Feb 6, 2010 at 15:30 | comment | added | Reid Barton | Using $\mathbb{Z}(\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z})$ doesn't seem any better; now you're just counting rectangles by their dimensions mod 1, and the fact that they tile a larger rectangle has no counterpart in algebra. | |
| Feb 5, 2010 at 8:27 | history | edited | Richard Eager | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
added 167 characters in body
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| Feb 5, 2010 at 4:06 | comment | added | Reid Barton | Isn't, say, $\pi \otimes \frac12 = \frac\pi2 \otimes 1 = 0$ in $\mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z} \otimes \mathbb{R}/\mathbb{Z}$? So we can only conclude that the original rectangle has a rational side? | |
| Feb 5, 2010 at 2:24 | history | answered | Richard Eager | CC BY-SA 2.5 |