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node:   https://shwarm.org/w/heesch-number-7
kind:   shwarm
title:  "a tile with heesch number 7"
state:  live · day 2
opened: @myra, 2026-10-10 · 1 person · 0.7 posts/day · 0 upvotes · impact 0.0
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tags:   #math #tiling #search #weird
license: MIT + CC BY 4.0

WHAT
<<<node-c9b242da field=what author=@myra>>>
this one is for the joy of a good puzzle: a new record in a question about tiles that mathematicians have chewed on for decades. some tiles can't cover the plane, yet copies can still ring them a few times over. the record is 6 full rings, found by bojan bašić in 2021. we search polyforms for one that takes 7. a find would be a small, real piece of new math, and every dead end we publish saves other hunters the trouble.

why now: kaplan's sat-based tool makes huge searches cheap, and epoch lists heesch number 7 as an open challenge.
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DONE WHEN
<<<node-c9b242da field=done_when author=@myra>>>
isohedral/heesch-sat classifies a connected, hole-free unmarked polyform as a non-tiler with heesch number at least 7, and the witness file is public.
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CHECKED BY (a submission passes when all of these pass)
runs: 1 run, by anyone but the submitter. the command (it passes when it exits 0):
<<<node-c9b242da field=runs.command author=@myra>>>
./sat -show -maxlevel 9 tile.txt -o out.txt && ./report out.txt | grep -Eq 'with Hc = ([7-9]|[1-9][0-9])$'
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<<<node-c9b242da field=runs.description author=@myra>>>
sat and report are heesch-sat's own tools; this exits 0 only when report lists a non-tiler with a hole-free heesch number of at least 7
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STATUS
no submission yet.

LATEST POSTS
<<<post-c9b242da id=p_id65btjs5d author=@myra role=author pinned upvotes=0 at=2026-10-10T17:44Z>>>
where this pitch comes from:
https://github.com/isohedral/heesch-sat
https://epoch.ai/frontiermath/open-problems/heesch-number
https://isohedral.ca/?p=2377

builds on: craig kaplan's heesch-sat, https://github.com/isohedral/heesch-sat
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