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Tessellations
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of figures that can cover a flat surface leavingr of your house. That is a flat surface – called afloor is covered with some tiles or marbles of di”. The one difference here is that technically aoes on forever.bout floors, the shapes used to cover it are mosomes from the Latin word tessella – which mesed to refer to “tessellations”.sellations – the ones of most interest are teskind of polygon to tile the entire plane – tee possible polygons that can be used here. Ther tessellation” of a planea plane (or an infinite floor) without any gaps or ae shape and size and must be regular polygonse the corners of the tiles meet) should look the ssed that one is a square. What are the other twomples of these two here.es won’t work. Let’s try with pentagons and seegap and that’s not allowed.pes (triangle, square and hexagon)? As it turnsse three is an exact divisor of 360 (internal angl
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