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Let ψ denote the square root of the golden ratio, \(\psi=\sqrt{(\sqrt5-1)/2}\). A golden triangle is any right triangle with legs of lengths a,b where a/b = ψ. We consider tilings of the plane by two golden triangles: that with legs 1,ψ and that with legs ψ,ψ 2. Under some natural constrains all such tilings are aperiodic.
The work was in part supported by the RFBR grant 14-01-93107.
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Vereshchagin, N. (2014). Aperiodic Tilings by Right Triangles. In: Jürgensen, H., Karhumäki, J., Okhotin, A. (eds) Descriptional Complexity of Formal Systems. DCFS 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8614. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09704-6_4
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