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!POLY, Version 1.11 (30 Apr 1993)
� Archimedes World 1993

                             Polyominoes
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Polyominoes is a program which explores many different aspects of
pentominoes and hexominoes. The program is aimed at children from 7 to
16 and covers a wide area of the National Curriculum in maths,
especially Key Stages 2 and 3.

The program can be installed on to a Hard Disc by simply copying across
the !Poly application folder to any directory.

There are drawfiles included which may be printed out and photo-copied.
These drawfiles provide solutions for the many puzzles included
within the program. They also provide complete sets of pentominoes and
hexominoes to be cut out and used in the classroom.

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00000010  2e 31 31 20 28 33 30 20  41 70 72 20 31 39 39 33  |.11 (30 Apr 1993|
00000020  29 0a a9 20 41 72 63 68  69 6d 65 64 65 73 20 57  |).. Archimedes W|
00000030  6f 72 6c 64 20 31 39 39  33 0a 0a 20 20 20 20 20  |orld 1993..     |
00000040  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |                |
00000050  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  50 6f 6c 79 6f 6d 69 6e  |        Polyomin|
00000060  6f 65 73 0a 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |oes.            |
00000070  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20  |                |
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000000f0  70 72 6f 67 72 61 6d 20  69 73 20 61 69 6d 65 64  |program is aimed|
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00000200  73 20 69 6e 63 6c 75 64  65 64 20 77 68 69 63 68  |s included which|
00000210  20 6d 61 79 20 62 65 20  70 72 69 6e 74 65 64 20  | may be printed |
00000220  6f 75 74 20 61 6e 64 20  70 68 6f 74 6f 2d 63 6f  |out and photo-co|
00000230  70 69 65 64 2e 0a 54 68  65 73 65 20 64 72 61 77  |pied..These draw|
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000002e0  6e 20 74 68 65 20 63 6c  61 73 73 72 6f 6f 6d 2e  |n the classroom.|
000002f0  0a 0a                                             |..|
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