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Re:Discovery of a new irregular pentagon that can cover the ... by DanBC on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @02:13AM (#10046321)
That approach does work. From the article:

"We discovered the tile using using a computer to exhaustively search through a large but finite set of possibilities,” said Casey.

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Re:Discovery of a new irregular pentagon that can cover the ... by bradjohnson on Wednesday August 12, 2015 @04:37AM (#10046760)
Right? I love when people ask "Why don't they do X?" without even bothering to read the damn article. Does the parent think that people just randomly stumbled upon this shape?
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