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The complete characterization of tangram pentagons

Metric Geometry 2020-06-18 v1

Abstract

The old Chinese puzzle tangram gives rise to serious mathematical problems when one asks for all tangram figures that satisfy particular geometric properties. All 1313 convex tangram figures are known since 1942. They include the only triangular and all six quadrangular tangram figures. The families of all nn-gonal tangram figures with n6n \ge 6 are either infinite or empty. Here we characterize all 5353 pentagonal tangram figures, including 5151 non-convex pentagons and 3131 pentagons whose vertices are not contained in the same orthogonal lattice.

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@article{arxiv.2006.09698,
  title  = {The complete characterization of tangram pentagons},
  author = {Sarah Sophie Pohl and Christian Richter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.09698},
  year   = {2020}
}
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