Secrets from a bathroom floor

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Secrets from a bathroom floor

September 2009

An exhaustive algorithm for finding mixed tilings

\textbf{Step 1} Let k be either 3, 4, 5, or 6. \textbf{Step 2} Set c:=k22=1n1+1n2+...+1nk. \textbf{Step 3} Set n to be the biggest whole number less than or equal to ck. Note that not all ni can be bigger than n, for otherwise 1n1+1n2+...+1nk<c. \textbf{Step 4} Suppose $n_1

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