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Circular Chessboard


CircularChessboard

A circular pattern obtained by superposing parallel equally spaced lines on a set of concentric circles of increasing radii, then coloring the regions in chessboard fashion. The pattern appeared on the cover of early editions of Scripta Mathematica.


See also

Chessboard, Möbius Net, Nested Polygon

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References

Gardner, M. The Sixth Book of Mathematical Games from Scientific American. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, pp. 243-245 and 249-251, 1984.

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Circular Chessboard

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Circular Chessboard." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/CircularChessboard.html

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