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Jepetto's punctured chessboard [duplicate]
Jepetto the toymaker was thinking about a new toy to add to his tiling product line. His new design involved a punctured chessboard: an ordinary $8 \times 8$ chessboard, except with a single square ...
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Mutilated chessboard
Remove the square in the top-left corner of a $2015 \times2015$ chessboard.
Can the remaining mutilated chessboard be tiled with $1\times4$ and $4\times1$ rectangles?
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