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- From: pete@bignode.equinox.gen.nz (Pete Moore)
- Subject: Re: Game of pentominos
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- Date: 17 Dec 92 15:22:28 +1200
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- Torben AEgidius Mogensen (torbenm@diku.dk) wrote:
- >martel@marvin.mr.sintef.no (Paulo Martel) writes:
-
- >>After several tries I gave up a combinatorial analysis of the game of
- >>pentominos. Would someone point me to a reference, or briefly explain
- >>how one could compute the total number of solutions for a grid of a
- >>given size (6x10, 5x12, 4x15, 3x20).
-
- >I saw a paper once that reported the number of solutions to each of
- >these rectangle sizes. It used a heavily optimized machine code
- >program to exhaustively search for all solutions. I remember that for
- >the 3x20 case there are only two solutions barring reflections and
- >rotations. These are quite easy to find by hand. The number of
- >solutions for the 6x10 case was quite large, but I don't recall the
- >number. I also don't recall the title or author of the paper.
-
- I can't give an authoritative reference, but according to
- some notes I made back in my young & innocent days when I used to note
- information without references, there are:
- 2 3x20 solutions
- 2339 6x10 solutions
- 1010 5x12 solutions
- 368 4x15 solutions
-
- If your pentominoes are 3-dimensional (i.e. each could be constructed by
- joining 5 cubes together) rather than 2-dimensional, you can also form a
- 3x4x5 rectangular prism from the 12 pentominoes.
-
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