New Pentagon Tiling Discovered

The first in 30 years!

With Discovery, 3 Scientists Chip Away At An Unsolvable Math Problem

Jennifer McLoud-Mann had almost come to believe that her last two years of work had been for naught.

 

"It had gotten to the point, where we hadn't found anything," she said. "And I was starting to believe I just don't know if we're going to find anything."

 

Armed with an algorithm, McLoud-Mann, along with her husband, Casey Mann, and David Von Derau all of the University of Washington, Bothell had been trying to help unravel one of math's long-standing unanswered questions.

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Pentagon tilings @Wikipedia: >>Pentagon tilings

The new tiling @Wiki.

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