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For questions about mathematical tiling.

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Chromatic number of rectangle tilings

Suppose we have a region of the plane tiled by finitely many rectangles. We want to color the rectangles so that two rectangles have different colors if they share a part of an edge or if they share …
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Does every polyomino tile R^n for some n?

@Tim: Thanks for posting the question. @All: I am allowing all translations and rotations. I am also allowing reflections, but that's irrelevant to the question, because you can always get a reflect …
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Does every polyomino tile R^n for some n?

@Erich: It's certainly not true that every polyomino tiles some hypercuboid. Here's one way to see this. Consider the $n_1\times\ldots\times n_d$ hypercuboid. Index the cells by $(x_1,\ldots,x_d)$ whe …
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