pentomino

a polygon in the plane made of 5 equal-sized squares connected edge-to-edge
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pentomino

Summary

pentomino is a puzzle[1]. pentomino draws 512 Wikipedia views per month (puzzle category, ranking #3 of 15).[2]

Key Facts

  • pentomino is credited with the discovery of Solomon W. Golomb[3].
  • pentomino's image is recorded as Free pentominos 001.svg[4].
  • pentomino's instance of is recorded as puzzle[5].
  • pentomino's instance of is recorded as solved game[6].
  • pentomino's follows is recorded as tetromino[7].
  • pentomino's followed by is recorded as hexomino[8].
  • pentomino's subclass of is recorded as polyomino[9].
  • pentomino's Commons category is recorded as Pentominoes[10].
  • pentomino's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/05xkv[11].
  • pentomino's OmegaWiki Defined Meaning is recorded as 1659115[12].
  • pentomino's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/pentomino[13].
  • pentomino's MathWorld ID is recorded as Pentomino[14].
  • pentomino's Luding game ID is recorded as 7220[15].
  • pentomino's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[16].
  • pentomino's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 168948464[17].

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Works and Contributions

pentomino is credited with the discovery of Solomon W. Golomb[3].

Why It Matters

pentomino draws 512 Wikipedia views per month (puzzle category, ranking #3 of 15).[2] pentomino has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[18] pentomino is known by 4 alternative names across languages and contexts.[19]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] . web.ma.utexas.edu. web.ma.utexas.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [18] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [19] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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BibTeX @misc{4ortxyz_pentomino_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{pentomino}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/pentomino}, note = {Accessed: 2026-05-03}}
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