Almost a Circle Tessellation
It is well known that circles cannot tile the plane completely with no gaps or overlap.
Can the pink image on the right cover the plane completely with no gaps or overlap? All of the arcs have a central angle of .
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1 solution
The corners of the pink thingy are the vertices of a square. It's just an optical illusion that it looks more like a rectangle.