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Article #621058Re: BYTE Magazine Pentomino Article
From: Bob Eager
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 01:00
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 01:00
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On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 16:58:48 -0600, Charles Richmond wrote: > Back in the 1980's (and well within the purview of this newsgroup) there > was an article in BYTE magazine on solving a pentomino puzzle The > article contained a 6502 assembly language program for solving the exact > puzzle mentioned. Can anyone point me to which issue of BYTE contained > this article??? > > A pentomino (or 5-omino) is a polyomino of order 5, that is, a polygon > in the plane made of 5 equal-sized squares connected edge-to-edge. ... > When reflections are considered distinct, there are 18 one-sided > pentominoes. When rotations are also considered distinct, there are 63 > fixed pentominoes. > > I've done a lot of Googling to no avail... I'm hoping that someone here > recalls this magazine article! I found an article on polyominoes, but only up to order 4. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org
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