Post #2672370
2026-03-10 15:51 UTC
Does this mean we don't ever have to care about the mirroring of L pieces, tho? Nope! We just had to yet. That changes immediately with...
n = 3
For which we have four solutions, controlling for symmetry (several more that I've ignored if you don't, my set will keep diverging more and more from Mark's because of this). The bottom-most of which is a case where we have BOTH versions of L/J in play -- there are times when that WILL matter!
There's also no single-piece solutions except 3 O's.
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@joshmillard@mastodon.social 2026-03-10 16:04
Once we hit n = 4, we're in full swing: there's finally specimens for all seven combinations of pieces, and ten total unique solutions controlling for symmetry. I have to stop and pay attention to work for a bit, but one of the things I'm excited to fiddle with more is looking at where genuinely new non-decomposable patterns show up (like the sixth one down on the left in this image) where it's not just a concatenation of previously attested smaller specimens.