"monotile" meaning in All languages combined

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          "text": "And I am sorry I never delivered on the four-dimensional Poultry design. It turns out John Horton Conway found four-dimensional and five-dimensional aperiodic monotiles sixty years ago, but it's not too well documented.\nThe story takes place in 2053.",
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