Chessics, #28 - Mayhematics

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From W.Stead's manuscripts. A solution by David Bird, dated 3rd June 1965'
of the problem of arranging the 108 heptominoes. They form a "diamond'r with 20
squares along each serrated edge (39 squares along the diameter) leaving a central
quincunx of uncovered squares. (I have not previously come across the name of
David Bird in the literature - does any reader know him, or of other work by him?)
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