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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?

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There can exist precisely 1 polyhedron consisting of 1 dodecahedron and 12 pentagons.

Posted by K Sengupta on 2022-09-03 22:13:53

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