• Zachariah
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      10 months ago

      How can you count something that isn’t there?

      • SandmanXC
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        10 months ago

        Just keep imagining another tile until you can’t anymore.

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          10 months ago

          But isn’t that how many imaginary tiles there are? Thats not counting the tiles that aren’t there. You’re just deciding the number of imaginary tiles is the same as the missing tiles.

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        10 months ago

        You can see that there are 4 rows where tiles are missing, and you can use the minimum and maximum size of the adjacent tiles in a row to assume how many can fit in each row, because the lines formed by edges WILL all line up. It’s all about deciding where the boundaries are.