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by kryptiskt 1191 days ago
If nothing else, you could use the shape for floor tiles.
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And if you use them in your house, future archeologists could definitely date your ruins to no earlier than 2022/2023. If you had a document and wanted to prevent it from being “backdated” earlier than 2022/2023, you could use the tiling pattern as a background. A geometric time stamp of sorts.
Either that, or it would upend the future understanding of our progress in geometry if you print it with old ink on old stock paper that’s dated substantially earlier than 2022/23.
Very interesting idea! We just have to be sure that these tiles don't already exists in some crystals or materials, in biological creatures, or somewhere else.
I heard the construction workers were very frustrated when they had to use aperiodic tiling on the floor of Oxford's Mathematical Institute.
When I think of groups that ave it too easy, I think of construction workers. Academia, now there's real work.
Sadly floor tiles have clear up and down sides, and this tiling requires them to be flipped now and then.

But if you could also get them in four colors, it'd still be a kind of ultimate mathematical floor.