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    In geometry, a domino tiling of a region in the Euclidean plane is a tessellation of the region by dominoes, shapes formed by the union of two unit squares...
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  • rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols. Domino Tiles is a Unicode block containing characters for representing game situations...
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    if a finite set of Wang tiles can tile the plane, then there also exists a periodic tiling, which, mathematically, is a tiling that is invariant under...
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    Dominoes (redirect from Domino game)
    Dominoes is a family of tile-based games played with gaming pieces. Each domino is a rectangular tile, usually with a line dividing its face into two...
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  • played with domino tiles or similar equipment. The most typical domino games are layout games, i.e. games in which the players add matching tiles from their...
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    Mutilated chessboard problem (category Tiling puzzles)
    cover all of these squares? It is an impossible puzzle: there is no domino tiling meeting these conditions. One proof of its impossibility uses the fact...
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    that the number of domino tilings of the Aztec diamond of order n is 2n(n+1)/2. The Arctic Circle theorem says that a random tiling of a large Aztec diamond...
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    without gaps). Some tiling puzzles ask players to dissect a given shape first and then rearrange the pieces into another shape. Other tiling puzzles ask players...
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    play. Each tile has a back (undifferentiated) side and a face side. Domino tiles are usually rectangular, twice as long as they are wide and at least...
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  • Look up Domino, domino, or dominó in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A domino is a tile used in a family of games called dominoes. Domino(es) may also...
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  • and domino tilings. I", Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics, 1 (2): 111–132, doi:10.1023/A:1022420103267, MR 1226347 Mendelsohn, N. S. (2004), "Tiling with...
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    climb (12 m) Smallest domino tile (7 mm) Largest domino tile (4.8 m) Longest domino wall (16 m) Largest domino structure (25,000 tiles) Fastest topple of...
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    aims of the game are to domino, i.e. be first to shed all one's hand tiles, and, during play, to score points by playing a tile that makes the total number...
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    Domino Day on 14 November 2005. With only four days to go until Domino Day 2005, the bird flew into the building and landed on several domino tiles,...
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  • using a similar domino tiling strategy occupying every square except the one containing the first player's first move. The domino tiling strategy works...
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    bar. domino To play all the tiles in a hand, usually ending play for the round. Hence 'dominoed' or 'dominoer'. An individual piece in a domino set. According...
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    came from the direction of domino tilings. Taking a spanning tree of G and adding to it its planar dual one gets a domino tiling of a special derived graph...
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  • d-dimer TH-dimer Dimer model, an item in statistical mechanics, based on domino tiling Julius Dimer (1871–1945), German chess master Dimery (botany), having...
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    Penrose tiling is an example of an aperiodic tiling. Here, a tiling is a covering of the plane by non-overlapping polygons or other shapes, and a tiling is...
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    Tessellation (redirect from Periodic tiling)
    wallpaper groups. A tiling that lacks a repeating pattern is called "non-periodic". An aperiodic tiling uses a small set of tile shapes that cannot form...
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    no mention of dominoes in her compendium of games. In China, early "domino" tiles were functionally identical to playing cards. An identifiable version...
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  • Solid". mathworld.wolfram.com. Retrieved 2020-08-21. Weisstein, Eric W. "Domino Tiling". mathworld.wolfram.com. Retrieved 2020-08-21. "Sloane's A059756 : Erdős-Woods...
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    aperiodic tiling is a non-periodic tiling with the additional property that it does not contain arbitrarily large periodic regions or patches. A set of tile-types...
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    Double-eighteen (13 players, 190 tiles) Many domino sets use color-coded pips or numerals for the values to help players select matching domino values; however, the...
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    who picks the highest double (a domino with both ends showing the same number of spots), each player gets five tiles, with the leftover ones set aside...
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    Domino Tiles[1][2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF)   0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F U+1F03x 🀰 🀱 🀲 🀳 🀴 🀵 🀶 🀷 🀸 🀹 🀺 🀻 🀼 🀽 🀾...
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  • A tiling with rectangles is a tiling which uses rectangles as its parts. The domino tilings are tilings with rectangles of 1 × 2 side ratio. The tilings...
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    combinatorics, and number theory. He has written highly cited papers on domino tiling of Aztec diamonds, topological quantum computing, and on the representation...
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    Conway criterion; hence, every pentomino is capable of tiling the plane. Each chiral pentomino can tile the plane without being reflected. The earliest puzzle...
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  • called #P-complete). This result is used to calculate the number of domino tilings of a rectangle, the partition function of Ising models in physics, or...
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