Monthly Archives: February 2018

Orthogons and orthobraces

Posted on February 19, 2018 by Brent

One of these days soon I will get back to writing about primality tests, but for now I am having fun getting sidetracked on orthogons! In a previous post I gave rules for when two orthogons will be considered the … Continue reading →

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Properties of orthogons II

Posted on February 10, 2018 by Brent

In my previous post I proved three out of the four properties of orthogons I originally stated. Now let’s prove the final property: Every sequence of an even number of X’s and V’s, with exactly four more X’s than V’s, … Continue reading →

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Properties of orthogons I

Posted on February 5, 2018 by Brent

First things first: from now on, when talking about polygons with only right angles, instead of calling them “orthogonal polygons” I’m going to start calling them “orthogons”, which sounds cool, is much less clunky than “orthogonal polygons”, and doesn’t seem … Continue reading →

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