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An enumeration of equilateral triangle dissections

Combinatorics 2010-04-06 v2

Abstract

We enumerate all dissections of an equilateral triangle into smaller equilateral triangles up to size 20, where each triangle has integer side lengths. A perfect dissection has no two triangles of the same side, counting up- and down-oriented triangles as different. We computationally prove W. T. Tutte's conjecture that the smallest perfect dissection has size 15 and we find all perfect dissections up to size 20.

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@article{arxiv.0910.5199,
  title  = {An enumeration of equilateral triangle dissections},
  author = {Ales Drapal and Carlo Hamalainen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.5199},
  year   = {2010}
}

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