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‘The hat’: 50-year-old geometry mystery
April 11 , 2023
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- A group of four scientists have discovered an entirely new shape which has 13 sides and has named it “the hat”.
- It is the first ‘einstein’ tile to have been found.
- It is a shape which cover a plane without overlapping, leaving gaps, or repeating patterns.
- The shape is a polykite with the edges of eight kites to make it.
- This shape is the first time a single aperiodic tile has been found to cover a plane.
- There are a limited number of aperiodic tiles that have been found over the years since the first tile sets, consisting of 20,000 shapes, were created in 1960s.
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