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Article #621059Re: BYTE Magazine Pentomino Article
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 22:12
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 22:12
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On 2/27/2018 7:00 PM, Bob Eager wrote: > 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. > Where did you find the article??? Was it in BYTE magazine??? -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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