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Every group decided by a window of radius 1

Every group decided by a window of radius 1
Every group decided by a window of radius 1. For each of the seventeen, the radius at which a round window on the pattern admits exactly the group's own operations and no others — with the numbers it admits at each smaller radius beside it. Two opposite failures are visible. Most groups under-report at small radii, because an operation carrying points out of the window cannot be tested at all; cm over-reports, admitting operations the pattern does not have. The groups that take longest to settle are the ones distinguished by a glide, which moves a point half a cell before anything can be compared.

For each of the seventeen, the radius at which a round window on the pattern admits exactly the group's own operations and no others — with the numbers it admits at each smaller radius beside it. Two opposite failures are visible. Most groups *under*-report at small radii, because an operation carrying points out of the window cannot be tested at all; cm *over*-reports, admitting operations the pattern does not have. The groups that take longest to settle are the ones distinguished by a glide, which moves a point half a cell before anything can be compared.

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