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The trouble with five

Issue 45
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December 2007

The patch from figure 14 contains decagons and pentacles divided up as follows:

Each of these two substitutions introduces rhombi. These can be swallowed up by the two new shapes introduced here:

This substitution turns the patch on the left (the original figure 14) into the patch on the right (our new figure 20):

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