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Tiling Rectangles with Rectangles

by F. R. K. Chung (Bell Laboratories) and E.N. Gilbert (Bell Laboratories) and R. L. Graham (Bell Laboratories) and J. B. Shearer (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) and J.H. van Lint (The Technical University of Eindhoven The Netherlands)

This article originally appeared in:
Mathematics Magazine
December, 1982

Subject classification(s): Trigonometry | Triangles | Plane Geometry | Geometry and Topology
Applicable Course(s): 4.9 Geometry | 2.2 Trigonometry

The authors investigate and discuss the complexities of tilings called `simple tilings`.

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