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Anton Petrunin
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A question about tilings of the plane

Let C be a compact subset of the Euclidean plane E whose boundary is a Jordan curve J. If C tiles the plane, can J be such that it has a unique tangent line at each point and none of its sub-arcs is a straight line segment with distinct end-points? If so, can you give an example? J does not need to be convex and the tiling need not be regular. The only requirement is that the plane E be a countable union of congruent copies of C, no two of which have a common interior point.