Pentagon tiling

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In geometry, a pentagon tiling is a tiling of the plane by pentagons. There are fourteen known types of convex pentagon that tile the plane; it is not known if this list is complete.

[edit] See also

• Cairo pentagonal tiling
• Floret pentagonal tiling
• Prismatic pentagonal tiling

[edit] References

• Grünbaum, Branko; Shephard, G. C. (1987). "Tilings by polygons", Tilings and Patterns. New York: W. H. Freeman and Company. ISBN 0-7167-1193-1. 
• Gardner, Martin (1988). "Tiling with Convex Polygons", Time travel and other mathematical bewilderments. New York: W. H. Freeman and Company. ISBN 0-7167-1925-8. 

[edit] External links

• Eric W. Weisstein, Pentagon Tiling at MathWorld.