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Smallest tile to tessellate the hyperbolic plane

Is it known what the smallest tile (in terms of area) that can tessellate the hyperbolic plane is? In particular, it should tessellate the plane by itself. I think it will be a Triangle group, but I'...
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Smallest tile to *isohedrally* tessellate the hyperbolic plane

Is there a smallest tile (in terms of diameter) that isohedrally tessellates the hyperbolic plane? In this question, we ask the same question without the isohedral requirement, and the answer was no. ...
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