Anonymous, an onyst wrote on Fri, Sep 2, 2011 02:26 PM EDT:Excellent ★★★★★
Two things:
1) You often say 'pentagonal' or 'pentagonal prism' as a board
shape. These should probably be 'hexagonal' and 'hexagonal prism'.
Regular pentagons don't tile the plane.
2) 'Al fil' is Arabic for 'the elephant'. I should know --- I
speak Hebrew, where 'pil' (somewhere between 'peel' and 'pill' in
pronunciation) means elephant, and Hebrew is very closely related to
Arabic.
Two things: 1) You often say 'pentagonal' or 'pentagonal prism' as a board shape. These should probably be 'hexagonal' and 'hexagonal prism'. Regular pentagons don't tile the plane. 2) 'Al fil' is Arabic for 'the elephant'. I should know --- I speak Hebrew, where 'pil' (somewhere between 'peel' and 'pill' in pronunciation) means elephant, and Hebrew is very closely related to Arabic.