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Anyone here read Berman and Moody's "The algebraic theory of quasicrystals with five-fold symmetries"? They study an operation called quasiaddition: x⊢y = Φ²x - Φy where Φ = (1+√5)/2. Doing that repeatedly to all the points in the pentagon shown here generates a quasicrystal, they claim! (1/2)
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John C. Baez