Truncated Icosahedron - Geometric Relations

Geometric Relations

The truncated icosahedron easily verifies the Euler characteristic:

32 + 60 − 90 = 2.

With unit edges, the surface area is (rounded) 21 for the pentagons and 52 for the hexagons, together 73 (see areas of regular polygons).

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