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- noun mathematics A
polyform constructed fromquadrilaterals obtained from thesuperimposition of atriangular andhexagonal grid
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Identified by David Smith, a nonprofessional mathematician who describes himself as an “imaginative tinkerer of shapes,” and reported in a paper posted online March 20 at arXiv.org, the hat is a polykite — a bunch of smaller kite shapes stuck together.
Mathematicians have finally discovered an elusive ‘einstein’ tile E-mail 2023
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