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Article #621063Re: BYTE Magazine Pentomino Article
From: Charles Richmond
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 07:17
Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2018 07:17
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On 2/28/2018 5:51 PM, Peter Flass wrote: > Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote: >> 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 >> > > Looking at the TOC reminded me how much I used to like Byte in the old > days, before they went over to the dark side. > Yes! BYTE was wonderful and stimulating when it had substantive content instead of just advertising pieces. Although it was kind of good to download source code, the cessation of printing source code with the articles was a step away from substantive programming articles. -- numerist at aquaporin4 dot com
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