Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming from four undisclosed locations in the UK.
My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anna Tyshinski, Andrew Hunter Murray, and James Harkin,
and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days,
and in no particular order here we go.
Starting with you, Andy.
My fact is that Sir Roger Penrose, the mathematician who's just won the Nobel Prize,
once designed a theoretically infinite geometrical pattern called the Penrose Tiles.
He then sued a toilet paper company for stealing it and creating a theoretically infinite toilet paper roll.
Why would you need an infinite toilet paper?
Well, I suppose everyone's hoarding toilet paper at the moment, aren't they?
Exactly.
An infinite one would be really useful.
Okay, so basically Roger Penrose, he's a brilliant, brilliant mathematician.
In the 1970s he invented this thing called Penrose Tiling,
which basically combines two different rhomboids that can be repeated ad infinitum.
This pattern never repeats itself.
It's really amazing.
He had just invented them for fun as well.
He does lots of stuff like this for fun.