Henry Ernest Dudeney/Modern Puzzles/178 - The Seven-Pointed Star/Historical Note

== Historical Note on by : $178$ - The Seven-Pointed Star == reported this problem in his Mathematical Games column in in the December $1965$ issue.

In correspondence, he received confirmation from that there are in fact $72$ patterns for this seven-pointed star, rather than the $56$ offered by.

This was confirmed by the independent work of and.

In $1966$, used a computer at the  in Ontario to confirm the $72$ solutions.