Tiling a Polyomino at Scale 2 with a Pentomino
A pentomino is a figure made of five squares joined
edge to edge.
There are 12 such figures, not distinguishing reflections and rotations.
They were first enumerated and studied by Solomon Golomb.
Here I study the problem of arranging copies of a pentomino
to form some polyomino that has been scaled up by a factor of 2.
See also
Andrew Bayly and Helmut Postl identified the smallest
tilings for the N-pentomino.
So far as I know, these solutions
use as few tiles as possible. They are not necessarily uniquely minimal.
I-Pentomino
This tiling has 4 tiles.
L Pentomino
These tilings have 4 tiles.
P Pentomino
These tilings have 4 tiles.
Z Pentomino
This tiling has 4 tiles.
Y Pentomino
These tilings have 12 tiles.
N Pentomino
These tilings have 64 tiles.
This holeless solution has 116 tiles.
Last revised 2025-06-04.
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