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A space-filling polyhedron is one whose replications can be packed to fill three-space completely. The space-filling tetrahedra and pentahedra have been previously investigated. The search is here extended to the convex space-filling hexahedra.
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Goldberg, M. On the space-filling hexahedra. Geom Dedicata 6, 99–108 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00181585
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00181585