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A Problem Squared

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The Infinite Family of Patterns

Someone found an aperiodic tiling that only involves one shape, a single tile that repeats over and over and over again. Other people have gotten close in the past, but the tiles had to overlap or they were non-contiguous. The other thing that's interesting is they didn't just find one of these - there's infinitely many patterns that have their same property.

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