Investigates tiling spheres with polygons, revealing a negative answer for odd configurations.
Can the sphere be tiled by an odd number of congruent polygons in an edge-to-edge arrangement? The answer is negative under a natural setting where polygons have at least 3 edges and at least 3 polygons meet at each vertex. The parity phenomenon has come to light after a voluminous classification of spherical tilings. We offer a short proof of it and draw a parallel to a result in polyhedra by Branko Grünbaum.
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