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gilleain 3 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Gauss wanted a heptadecagon on his tombstone

Indeed. Related is the Ammann-Beenker tiling and it's connections to the 'Silver Ratio' of sqrt(2) + 1.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_ratio

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammann%E2%80%93Beenker_tiling

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