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A geometric shape comprised of five (greek pente) identical squares. Compare to domino (two squares), or tetromino (four squares).

A standard pentomino puzzle is to arrange a set of the twelve possible shapes into a rectangles without holes: 3x20, 4x15, 5x12, 6x10.

The shapes look like this:

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Edited August 8, 2001 1:11 am by Robbe (diff)
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