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Pinwheel tiling


In geometry, pinwheel tilings are non-periodic tilings defined by Charles Radin and based on a construction due to John Conway. They are the first known non-periodic tilings to each have the property that their tiles appear in infinitely many orientations.

Let be the right triangle with side length , and . Conway noticed that can be divided in five isometric copies of its image by the dilation of factor .


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