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decagon

In geometry, a ten-sided polygon.


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The Investigate link will take you to a quiz section with shapes from squares to decagons.
Later, Petra Gummelt of the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald in Germany proved mathematically that Burkov's overlapping decagons are indeed equivalent to a quasiperiodic Penrose tiling.
Rather than abutting each other like the Penrose tiles, these decagons overlap in specific ways.
 
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