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- From: cet1@cus.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson)
- Subject: Re: Tiling problem
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- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 00:23:43 GMT
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- It occured to me that one could put more constraints on the problem by using
- periodic boundary conditions. This brings the probabilisticly suggested largest
- square down from about 17 to about 11, and so it might be more ammenable to
- a brute-force-and-ignorance computational attack.
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- This version could be stated as: colour the tiles of the infinite plane square
- lattice black and white, periodically with period N in both directions, such
- that the only (orthogonally oriented) squares with all four corners the same
- colour have both sides divisible by N.
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- Chris Thompson
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