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		DanBC on Aug 12, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Discovery of a new irregular pentagon that can cov... That approach does work. From the article: "We discovered the tile using using a computer to exhaustively search through a large but finite set of possibilities,” said Casey.

bradjohnson on Aug 12, 2015 [–]

Right? I love when people ask "Why don't they do X?" without even bothering to read the damn article. Does the parent think that people just randomly stumbled upon this shape?

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