Rationality of certain triangle tilings
Combinatorics
2026-04-03 v1
Abstract
We consider tilings of a triangle by congruent copies of a triangle that has one angle equal to , has non-commensurable angles (that is, not all angles are rational multiples of ), and is not similar to . We prove that any such tiling has commensurable sides, meaning that the side lengths can be taken to be integers after scaling. As a consequence, we show that outside of a couple of special cases, a triangle (allowing all angles) tiling must either have commensurable angles or commensurable sides (that is, all sides have rational ratios).
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@article{arxiv.2604.01314,
title = {Rationality of certain triangle tilings},
author = {Michael Beeson and Yan X Zhang},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.01314},
year = {2026}
}