This drove me batty and I hope it will do the same for you:
It is impossible to have 5 continuous (ie, each area is continuous with itself) areas all touching each other (in one plane). Use any combinations of curves & staight lines. Can't be done. I assume this holds for more than 5 also. This was discovered by people who were trying to pick colors for countries on a map.
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I've determined the actual problem is that you can't have four continuous areas all touching each other with out one being central. Sounds easier to tackle. And if only I could just get that to work... then I can just draw a circle around it!
I must not understand the problem, because any pie has at least 8 pieces all touching each other. They all touch each other at the center point, and you could have as many of such pieces as you want.
Perhaps you mean share a common boundary line?
sorry danny- I mean touching for any length, as in, part of each's perimeter is alongside part of each of the other's perimeter
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