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Tessellations with Pentagons

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

J. A. Dunn
J. A. Dunn*
Affiliation:
The Education Centre, The New University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland
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Every triangle can be used to tile or tessellate a plane because the 3 angles add up to 180° and so can be arranged to form a straight line. In a similar way every quadrilateral will tessellate because the 4 angles can be grouped round a point.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 55 , Issue 394 , December 1971 , pp. 366 - 369
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1971

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