Polyiamond
Polyform whose base form is an equilateral triangle / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Triamond" redirects here. For the crystal structure, see Laves graph.
A polyiamond (also polyamond or simply iamond, or sometimes triangular polyomino[1]) is a polyform whose base form is an equilateral triangle. The word polyiamond is a back-formation from diamond, because this word is often used to describe the shape of a pair of equilateral triangles placed base to base, and the initial 'di-' looks like a Greek prefix meaning 'two-' (though diamond actually derives from Greek ἀδάμας - also the basis for the word "adamant"). The name was suggested by recreational mathematics writer Thomas H. O'Beirne in New Scientist 1961 number 1, page 164.
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