Are you excluding the case of cutting the surface of a sphere into orange wedges? I'd view an orange wedge as a two-sided regular polygon, but opinions may vary. Rich -------------- Quoting Dan Asimov <dasimov@earthlink.net>:
PUZZLE: There is a closed metric surface S that can be tiled by N regular polygons for all but two values of N in the range 1 <= N <= 10.
Find a surface S satisfying this condition and prove that it works.
____________________________________________________________ Notes: Closed means of finite extent and without boundary. A tiling means S is the union of regular polygons such that if P and Q are distinct polygons, then their intersection is either empty or a union of common vertices and/or edges. Also, some of one polygon's own edges may coincide pairwise. A regular polygon Q of k sides inherits its metric from S such that the isometry group of Q has 2k elements.
--Dan
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