The tile-count divisibility conjecture for targets
Let be the side lengths of the triangular tile, with angles determined by , and let be a triangle with angles . Tile-count divisibility conjecture. If can be tiled by copies of , then the number of tiles has the form
for some integer . Any counterexample must satisfy .
The preceding lemma proves this form under the hypothesis . The construction in the paper supplies infinitely many tile counts of the displayed form, while the exceptional congruence class remains the possible source of counterexamples.
References
Primary source
Yan X Zhang, “Tiling Triangles with 2π/3 Angles”, arXiv:2512.22696 (2026).
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