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Man and Beast 06: The Heavy Brigade. Systematic naming of symmetric and forward-only non-coprime radial pieces.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Anonymous, an onyst wrote on Fri, Sep 2, 2011 06:26 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Two things:
        1) You often say 'pentagonal' or 'pentagonal prism' as a board
shape. These should probably be 'hexagonal' and 'hexagonal prism'.
Regular pentagons don't tile the plane.
        2) 'Al fil' is Arabic for 'the elephant'. I should know --- I
speak Hebrew, where 'pil' (somewhere between 'peel' and 'pill' in
pronunciation) means elephant, and Hebrew is very closely related to
Arabic.