POLYOMINO TILINGS

Polyomino Tilings

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F hexomino¶

Area: 6.

Size: 2x4.

Holes: 0.

Order: 2.

Square order: 24.

Prime rectangles: ≥ 1.

Smallest rectangle tilings¶

Smallest rectangle (3x4):

Smallest square (12x12):

Rectangle tilings' solutions count (including symmetric)¶

Blue number - strongly prime rectangle (which cannot be divided into two or more number of rectangles tileable by this set).

Green number - weakly prime rectangle (which cannot be divided into two rectangles tileable by this set, but which can be divided into three or more rectangles).

Purple number - prime rectangle (unknown if weakly or strongly prime).

Red number - composite rectangle (which can be divided into two rectangles tileable by this set).

Gray number - it is unknown whether rectangle is prime or composite.

Question mark (?) - solution count is unknown.

Click on underlined numbers to view picture with one solution.

Smallest prime reptiles¶

Smallest prime reptile (6Fx8):

Reptile tilings' solutions count (including symmetric)¶

Formulas¶

$N(w; h)$ - number of ways to tile $w\times h$ rectangle (including symmetric solutions)

$T(w; h) = \begin{cases} 1, & N(w; h) \geq 1 \\ 0, & \text{else} \end{cases}$ - tileability function, $1$ if tiles rectangle, $0$ otherwise

$A(w; h) = \left(N(w; h)\right)^{\frac{1}{wh}}$ - average number of ways to tile cell in $w\times h$ rectangle (including symmetric solutions)

$G(T; x; y) = \sum_{w=1}^{\infty}\sum _{h=1}^{\infty}T(w; h)x^wy^h$ - bivariate generating function of $T(w; h)$

$G(A; x; y) = \sum_{w=1}^{\infty}\sum _{h=1}^{\infty}A(w; h)x^wy^h$ - bivariate generating function of $A(w; h)$

$N(1; n) = T(1; n) = 0, \qquad n \geq 1 \tag{1}$

$N(2; n) = T(2; n) = 0, \qquad n \geq 1 \tag{2}$

$N(3; n) = 2 \times N(3; n - 4), \qquad n \geq 5 \tag{3}$

$N(4; n) = 2 \times N(4; n - 3), \qquad n \geq 4 \tag{4}$

$N(5; n) = T(5; n) = 0, \qquad n \geq 1 \tag{5}$

$N(6; n) = 4 \times N(6; n - 4), \qquad n \geq 5 \tag{6}$

$N(7; n) = 288 \times N(7; n - 12), \qquad n \geq 13 \tag{7}$

$N(8; n) = 4 \times N(8; n - 3), \qquad n \geq 4 \tag{8}$

$N(9; n) = 8 \times N(9; n - 4), \qquad n \geq 5 \tag{9}$

$N(10; n) = 4384 \times N(10; n - 12) - 483584 \times N(10; n - 24) + 3604480 \times N(10; n - 36) + 100663296 \times N(10; n - 48), \qquad n \geq 49 \tag{10}$

$N(11; n) = 7296 \times N(11; n - 12), \qquad n \geq 13 \tag{11}$

$N(12; n) = 8 \times N(12; n - 3) + 20 \times N(12; n - 4) - 64 \times N(12; n - 8), \qquad n \geq 9 \tag{12}$

See Also¶