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A jigsaw problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 2016

G. C. Shephard
G. C. Shephard*
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Recently, when solving a jigsaw puzzle, I noticed that many of the pieces were symmetric in some sense; they had either reflective or rotational symmetry. This made me wonder if it was possible for all the pieces in a puzzle to be different shapes, and yet have some prescribed symmetry.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 93 , Issue 526 , March 2009 , pp. 58 - 65
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Copyright © The Mathematical Association 2009

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