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Polyomino Enumeration
K. S. Brown examines the number of polyominoes up to order 12 for various cases involving rotation or reflections. Equations linking the cases are proposed.
http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath039.htm
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Mathforum : a Pentomino Problem
Geometry Forum: Lists the pentominoes; fold them to form a cube; play a pentomino game. (project of the month, 1995)
http://mathforum.org/pom/project2.95.html
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Polypolygon Tilings
S. Dutch discusses polyominoes, poliamonds, and polypolygons with special attention to tiling characteristics.
http://www.uwgb.edu/dutchs/symmetry/polypoly.htm
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The Poly Pages
About various polyforms - polyominoes, polyiamonds, polycubes, and polyhexes.
http://www.recmath.com/PolyPages/
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Polyominoes
Introduction to Tetrominoes, Pentominoes, Hexominoes, Heptominoes, Octominoes, Fixed (translation only) Polyominoes. Numerous Links.
http://www.geocities.com/alclarke0/PolyPages/Polyominoes.html
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Henri Picciotto's Geometric Puzzles in the Classroom
Polyform puzzle lessons for math educators to use with their students, including polyominoes, supertangrams, and polyarcs.
http://www.picciotto.org/math-ed/puzzles/
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Pento
Amamas Software offers a pentomino solving software.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/DavidandPenny/Pento.htm
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Pentomino HungarIQa
Kati presents a pentomino puzzle using poly-rhombs instead of poly-squares. [English/French/German/Hungarian]
http://www.pentomino.tvnet.hu/
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Primes of a 14-omino
Michael Reid shows that a 3x6 rectangle with a 2x2 bite removed can tile a (much larger) rectangle. It is open whether it can do this using an odd number of copies.
http://www.math.ucf.edu/~reid/Polyomino/14omino02_rect.html
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Tiling Rectangles and Half Strips with Congruent Polyominoes
Michael Reid's abstract of paper in the "Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A".
http://www.math.ucf.edu/~reid/Research/Halfstrip/
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