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Anyone interested in tiling and science fiction should absolutely read Anathem by Neal Stephenson, it’s an excellent book that does an unexpectedly deep dive into tiling mathematics.

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I finished re-reading Anathem last month. Unfortunately, AFAICT, the tiling problem depicted in the book is fictional. Though I keep wondering if it is possible to make a real puzzle conform to the (somewhat vaguely) specified problem in the book.

I just took a break from reading a scene from Anathem revolving around tiling and came across this thread. :)

This sort of “HN coincidence” has happened to me several times this week, is there a term for it I don’t know?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion perhaps?

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