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Revision as of 14:44, 12 August 2026

Wang Tiles (or Wang dominoes) are a class of formal mathematical systems first proposed by Hao Wang in 1961. They consist of equal-sized square tiles with colored edges that are arranged side-by-side on a regular grid.

When placing tiles to cover an infinite plane, you must strictly follow three structural constraints:

  • Orientation: Tiles must be placed with a fixed orientation and cannot be rotated or reflected.
  • Edge Matching: Adjoining edges of touching tiles must share the exact same color.
  • Grid Alignment: Every tile must occupy exactly one square in a standard square grid.

Busy Beaver function

Define the score of a set of Wang tiles as the largest d such that it can tile a dxd square, or 0 if there is no largest d.

Then BB_WT(n) = the maximum score over all n-tile sets.

The current format to describe a set of tiles is a list of tuples that have 4 nonegative numbers, each representing a side color. Example: [TOP,RIGHT,BOTTOM,LEFT]

n Value Champion
1 1 [1,0,0,0]
2 2 [1,0,2,0] [2,0,3,0]
3 3 [1,0,2,0] [2,0,3,0] [3,0,4,0]
4 4 [1,0,2,0] [2,0,3,0] [3,0,4,0] [4,0,5,0]
5 ≥ 6 [1,0,2,0] [2,0,3,0] [3,0,4,0] [4,6,1,5] [4,5,2,6]
6 ≥ 8 [1,0,2,0] [2,0,3,0] [3,0,4,0] [4,0,5,0] [5,7,1,6] [5,6,2,7]