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Conway criterion

Conway criterion proper noun: a rule for determining whether a prototile will tile the plane.

Proper noun

the Conway criterion

  1. A rule for determining whether a prototile will tile the plane.

Origin of Conway criterion

Named for the English mathematician John Horton Conway.

Questions about Conway criterion

What does Conway criterion mean?
Conway criterion means a rule for determining whether a prototile will tile the plane.
What part of speech is Conway criterion?
Conway criterion is a proper noun.

Words near Conway criterion in the dictionary

  1. convulvulaceous
  2. convulvulus
  3. convulxin
  4. Conway
  5. Conway County
  6. Conway criterion
  7. Conway knot
  8. Conway knots
  9. Conway polynomial
  10. Conway polynomials
  11. Conway's constant

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