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‘Nasty’ Geometry Breaks Decades-Old Tiling Conjecture
- jjgreen 4y agoBit of a blooper in there: "they just know it’s massive, possibly as large as 2^100^100 (or, roughly, 3 followed by 199 zeros)", in fact it has 3x10^199 digits https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2%5E%28100%5E100%29 https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=2%5E%28100%5E100%29
- blueprint 4y agoTao's blog post ("A counterexample to the periodic tiling conjecture"): https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2022/11/29/a-counterexample-to-the-periodic-tiling-conjecture-2/ https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2022/11/29/a-counterexample-t...