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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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re(3): The 720 degree deficit - Euler's formula

| Comment 16 of 25 |

(In reply to re(2): The 720 degree deficit - Euler's formula by Brian Smith)

Brian,

"There can be any number of hexagons (including zero)"

Any number? Or is "quantized", and the number of hexagons must follow a pattern/sequence (e.g., 0, 20, ... )

Posted by SilverKnight on 2004-04-12 12:48:21

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