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Minimum number of distinct triangles for tesselating the sphere

Consider sequences of tesselations of the sphere. For instance, one such sequence might start with an icosahedron and proceed by subdividing each triangle face into 4 triangles and projecting the new ...
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Tiling space with supertile of hypercube unfoldings

Two students in my class asked and answered what might be a novel question. It is well known that the cube has exactly $11$ edge-unfoldings (or "nets"), as shown below:         (Image from ...
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Tiling with one of each 3D shape

Encouraged by the positive solutions to my question, Tiling with one of each shape, I'd like to pose the $\mathbb{R}^3$ equivalent: Q. Is there a tiling of $\mathbb{R}^3$ by (bounded) polyhedra, one ...
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