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- From: torbenm@diku.dk (Torben AEgidius Mogensen)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Penrose Tiles / Beatty Seq's.
- Message-ID: <1992Oct12.114412.4762@odin.diku.dk>
- Date: 12 Oct 92 11:44:12 GMT
- References: <18008@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
- Sender: torbenm@freke.diku.dk
- Organization: Department of Computer Science, U of Copenhagen
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- shaw@toadflax.UCDavis.EDU (Rob Shaw) writes:
-
- >The are only a handful of Penrose (kite+dart) tilings as
- >shown by taking infinite strips across the tiling. These
- >strips come in a sequence containing "thin" and "thick"
- >strips. The sequence is a Beatty sequence.
-
- >Something like
-
- >10010101001010010010010...
-
- >Could be a Beatty sequence, since one of the two elements
- >always appears alone, and the other appears alone or in
- >pairs.
-
- >This book also described how successive powers of the
- >golden ratio, rounded up and down form complementary
- >Beatty sequences, and moreover, that one of these
- >sequences is something that was previously thought
- >to only be computable by some recursive method that
- >required calculating all the terms preceding the
- >desired one.
-
- The algorithm that uses powers of the golden ratio may not be any more
- efficient than the method calculating all preceeding terms, as you
- will ned progressively higher precision in the arithmetic, with
- progressively more computing time as a consequence.
-
- Torben Mogensen (torbenm@diku.dk)
-