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Heesch's Problem

How many times can a shape be completely surrounded by copies of itself without being able to Tile the entire plane, i.e., what is the maximum (finite) Heesch Number?


References

Eppstein, D. ``Heesch's Problem.'' http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/heesch/.




© 1996-9 Eric W. Weisstein
1999-05-25