🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 28 Feb 2018 16:12:32 -0600, Charles Richmond wrote:

> 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???

Yes.

  https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1979-11?q=pentominoes



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