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Pentagon Partitions (Posted on 2016-12-11)

Find a way to partition a square into convex pentagons.

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Symmetry preserving solution.

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Trisect each side of the square. Put a 'house' shape pointing in for the center of each side. Each corner pentagon is a square with part of a corner lopped off.

This leaves a block letter x in the center that is divided into four more houses.

Posted by Jer on 2016-12-13 10:24:57

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