Hexagonal tiling

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Hexagonal tiling
Type	regular tiling
Tile	regular hexagon
Vertex configuration	6.6.6
Wallpaper group	p6m
Dual	triangular tiling
Properties	vertex-transitive, edge-transitive, face-transitive

In geometry, the hexagonal tiling or hexagonal tessellation is a regular tiling of the Euclidean plane, in which exactly three hexagons meet at each vertex. It has Schläfli symbol of {6,3} or t{3,6} (as a truncated triangular tiling).

English mathematician John Conway called it a hextille.

The internal angle of the hexagon is 120 degrees, so three hexagons at a point make a full 360 degrees. It is one of three regular tilings of the plane. The other two are the triangular tiling and the square tiling.