Sphinx tiling

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title: Sphinx tiling
text: In geometry, the sphinx tiling is a tessellation of the plane using the "sphinx", a pentagonal hexiamond formed by gluing six equilateral triangles together. The resultant shape is named for its reminiscence to the Great Sphinx at Giza. A sphinx can be dissected into any square number of copies of itself, some of them mirror images, and repeating this process leads to a non-periodic tiling of the plane. The sphinx is therefore a rep-tile. It is one of few known pentagonal rep-tiles and is the on
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description: Type of tessallation
original url: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx_tiling
date created: 2012-03-23T01:08:28Z
date modified: 2024-08-28T05:31:25Z
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