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- From: torbenm@diku.dk (Torben AEgidius Mogensen)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Tiling problem
- Message-ID: <1992Dec18.111210.2852@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: 18 Dec 92 11:12:10 GMT
- References: <israel.723716857@unixg.ubc.ca> <israel.723837962@unixg.ubc.ca> <1gggutINN29q@access.usask.ca> <1gm373INNafn@access.usask.ca> <1992Dec18.002343.3944@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Sender: torbenm@thor.diku.dk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
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- cet1@cus.cam.ac.uk (C.E. Thompson) writes:
-
- >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.
- >
- >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.
-
- Well, since someone already posted a 13x13 solution, an estimate of 11
- is a bit on the low side. But the suggestion sounds interesting.
-
- Torben Mogensen (torbenm@diku.dk)
-