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Comment by penteract

14 days ago

> I don't think it's possible to tile the sphere using more than 20 exactly identical pieces.

I was wrong about this (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhombic_triacontahedron). It still seems possible to me that there's a limit to the smallest tile that can tile a unit sphere on its own. (Smallest by diameter as a set of points in R^3).

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