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Tetrad (geometry puzzle)

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The solutions with four congruent tiles include some with five sides. However, their placement surrounds an uncovered hole in the plane. Among solutions without holes, the ones with the fewest possible sides are given by a hexagon identified by Scott Kim as a student at Stanford University. It is not
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Kim's solution has 16 vertices, while some of the pentagon solutions have as few as 11 vertices. It is not known whether fewer vertices are possible.
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disjoint planar regions in the plane, each pair sharing a finite portion of common boundary. It was named by Michael R. W. Buckley in 1975 in the
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Application of IT in Mathematical Proofs and in Checking of Results of Pupils’ Research
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known whether five-sided solutions without holes are possible.
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Tetrad with one central region and 3 surrounding ones
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Puzzles
Jigsaw piece
Guessing
Riddle
Situation
Logic
Dissection
Induction
Logic grid
Self-reference
Mechanical
Combination
Construction
Disentanglement
Lock
Go problems
Folding
Stick
Tiling
Tour
Sliding
Chess
Maze
Logic maze
Word
Number
Crossword
Sudoku

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