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In response to this CompSciTheory (cstheory) question, A simple problem whose decidability is not known, I posted that:

It is unknown whether or not it is decidable to determine if a given shape can tile the plane,

referring to an earlier cstheory question. This is even open for polyomino tiles.


          [![Tiling][1]][1]
          (Image from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyomino#Tiling_the_plane_with_copies_of_a_single_polyomino).)

In response to this CompSciTheory question, A simple problem whose decidability is not known, I posted that:

It is unknown whether or not it is decidable to determine if a given shape can tile the plane,

referring to an earlier cstheory question. This is even open for polyomino tiles.

In response to this CompSciTheory (cstheory) question, A simple problem whose decidability is not known, I posted that:

It is unknown whether or not it is decidable to determine if a given shape can tile the plane,

referring to an earlier cstheory question. This is even open for polyomino tiles.


          [![Tiling][1]][1]
          (Image from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyomino#Tiling_the_plane_with_copies_of_a_single_polyomino).)
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Joseph O'Rourke
  • 150.8k
  • 36
  • 358
  • 958

In response to this CompSciTheory question, A simple problem whose decidability is not known, I posted that:

It is unknown whether or not it is decidable to determine if a given shape can tile the plane,

referring to an earlier cstheory question. This is even open for polyomino tiles.