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Fortean Slips: Toilet Paper Plagiarism (1997) (archive.org)
16 points by occamschainsaw on Oct 31, 2018 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


First off, the design Kimberly-Clark used on their toilet paper wasn't an exact ripoff. It must have repeated itself in some regular pattern, in order to have been mass-produced in 500-sheet rolls. Thus it couldn't be more than a kissing cousin to the Penrose original, which is noteworthy for never repeating itself.


Am I alone in thinking that it should be impossible to license out mathematics?


If anybody else is curious how the pattern looks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose_tiling




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