The chequerboard is the basis of many wallpapers, and of many other natural patterns. Mathematically it is a regular tessellation of the plane by a single type of tile, the regular quadrilateral, the square. Its Schläfi formula is 44.
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| The chequerboard is the basis of many wallpapers, and of many other natural patterns. Mathematically it is a regular tessellation of the plane by a single type of tile, the regular quadrilateral, the square. Its Schläfi formula is 44. |