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A flat ball? (Posted on 2004-04-08)

Soccer balls are usually covered with a design based on regular pentagons and hexagons.

How many pentagons/hexagons MUST there be, and why?

See The Solution Submitted by Federico Kereki

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Bend it like Beckham

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The surface of a soccer ball is a polyhedron consisting of 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons. They discussed this in the wonderful Indian football (soccer) movie "Bend It Like Beckham".

Edited on April 8, 2004, 4:17 pm

Posted by Penny on 2004-04-08 16:13:08

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