mscroggs.co.uk
mscroggs.co.uk

subscribe

Comment

Comments

Comments in green were written by me. Comments in blue were not written by me.
On the 6th and 7th, there's also a direct bijection: in the tiling, horizontal tiles must occur in aligned pairs (else they split left/right into odd number of 1x1 blocks). Encode a tiling with the set of horizontal locations of the left ends of the horizontal-tile-pairs.
Ben Reiniger
on /blog/109
×2   ×2   ×2   ×2   ×2   

Archive

Show me a random blog post
 2026 

May 2026

World Cup stickers 2026

Apr 2026

A new puzzle every day
Mixing Wordle with other games

Feb 2026

Christmas (2025) is over
 2025 

Dec 2025

Christmas card 2025

Nov 2025

Christmas (2025) is coming!

Sep 2025

The partridge puzzle

Aug 2025

TMiP 2025 puzzle hunt

Jun 2025

A nonogram alphabet

Mar 2025

How to write a crossnumber

Jan 2025

Christmas (2024) is over
Friendly squares
 2024 

Dec 2024

A regular expression Christmas puzzle
Christmas card 2024

Nov 2024

Christmas (2024) is coming!

Feb 2024

Zines, pt. 2

Jan 2024

Christmas (2023) is over
 2023 
▼ show ▼
 2022 
▼ show ▼
 2021 
▼ show ▼
 2020 
▼ show ▼
 2019 
▼ show ▼
 2018 
▼ show ▼
 2017 
▼ show ▼
 2016 
▼ show ▼
 2015 
▼ show ▼
 2014 
▼ show ▼
 2013 
▼ show ▼
 2012 
▼ show ▼

Tags

guest posts captain scarlet crosswords sobolev spaces youtube regular expressions frobel national lottery tmip bodmas manchester science festival trigonometry mathsjam books logs matrix of minors runge's phenomenon crossnumber approximation python european cup numbers pokémon simultaneous equations tennis statistics royal baby reuleaux polygons harriss spiral 24 hour maths edinburgh alphabets video games live stream mathslogicbot braiding mathsteroids crossnumbers propositional calculus logic fence posts determinants arithmetic hats recursion a gamut of games game show probability go graphs arrangement puzzles big internet math-off games fonts golden ratio finite element method dinosaurs machine learning geogebra wave scattering folding tube maps dragon curves cross stitch matrix multiplication pi hyperbolic surfaces nine men's morris graph theory gather town turtles correlation kenilworth chess london underground dates world cup estimation chalkdust magazine stickers data football javascript bluesky people maths news puzzles final fantasy php pizza cutting fractals london bempp friendly squares errors binary pi approximation day gerry anderson exponential growth mean christmas map projections partridge puzzle quadrilaterals bubble bobble ternary weather station probability warwick ucl misleading statistics speed crochet databet logo preconditioning matt parker cambridge weak imposition signorini conditions rhombicuboctahedron interpolation plastic ratio christmas card squares stirling numbers programming pythagoras dataset realhats platonic solids palindromes standard deviation accuracy data visualisation thirteen light phd newcastle craft game of life raspberry pi coins folding paper reddit manchester asteroids zines inverse matrices wordle matrices anscombe's quartet numerical analysis nonograms noughts and crosses sound pascal's triangle computational complexity rust electromagnetic field polynomials rugby bots convergence tetris advent calendar matrix of cofactors talking maths in public boundary element methods radio 4 sport pac-man flexagons hexapawn error bars geometry wool curvature royal institution golden spiral sorting menace latex draughts coventry finite group martin gardner the aperiodical triangles countdown kings chebyshev pokémon wordle oeis inline code hannah fry datasaurus dozen gaussian elimination

Archive

Show me a random blog post
▼ show ▼
© Matthew Scroggs 2012–2026