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Test Your Intuition (34): Tiling high dimensional spaces with two-dimensional tiles.

A tile Image may be NSFW.
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is a finite subset of Image may be NSFW.
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\mathbb Z^d
. We can ask if Image may be NSFW.
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\mathbb Z^d
can or cannot be partitioned into copies of Image may be NSFW.
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. If  Image may be NSFW.
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\mathbb Z^d
can be partitioned into copies of Image may be NSFW.
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we say that Image may be NSFW.
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tiles Image may be NSFW.
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\mathbb Z^d
.

Here is a simpe example. Let Image may be NSFW.
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consists of 24 points of the 5 by 5 planar grid minus the center point. Image may be NSFW.
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cannot tile Image may be NSFW.
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\mathbb Z^2
.

Test your intuition: Does Image may be NSFW.
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tiles Image may be NSFW.
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\mathbb Z^d
for some Image may be NSFW.
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d>2
?

If you prefer you can think about the simpler case of Image may be NSFW.
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consisting of eight points: the 3 by 3 grid minus the center.

Image may be NSFW.
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