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Nornagest comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 9 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Nornagest 25 September 2011 06:05:45AM 8 points [-]

I actually looked that up on my last reread. It turns out there are several known pentagon tilings, some of which are quite attractive, although of course none use regular pentagons.

Comment author: Plasmon 25 September 2011 08:20:06AM 7 points [-]

You may also be interested in Uniform tilings in the hyperbolic plane. In this non-euclidean plane, regular pentagon tiling is possible, and, using some mapping to Euclidean space, aesthetically pleasing pictures may be produced.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 25 September 2011 03:31:13PM 6 points [-]

So we may presume the hallway in question had a vaulted ceiling.

Comment author: bogdanb 15 October 2011 01:06:32PM 4 points [-]

Or that Hogwarts is doing funny things with space, which we know it does regularly.

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