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Consortium for Mathematics and its Applications

Product ID: Math Today
Supplementary Print
High School

Polyiamonds

Author: Christopher Larson, Joseph Malkevitch


Polyiamonds are geometric figures formed by attaching equilateral triangles edgeto- edge in the plane without creating holes. Two sample polyiamonds are shown in Figures 1 and 2. Figure 1 shows a polyiamond obtained from a simple (non-self-intersecting) polygon by subdividing it into equilateral triangles, while Figure 2 has "internal" vertices. Our goal will be to show some properties of polyiamonds and indicate how much is still not known about these easy-to-describe and "experiment with" geometric objects.

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Consortium 108
7 pages

Mathematics Topics:

Geometry

Application Areas:

Convex Polytopes

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