More Great Ways to Annoy a Mathematician
Three common geometric errors that irk a mathematician: an all-hexagon soccer ball, a five-fold snowflake and a tilted square called a 'diamond.'
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[Title] "More Great Ways to Annoy a Mathematician"
[The soccer ball with all hexagons] "It needs pentagons! We're not tiling a torus here, folks!"
[The snowflake with five-fold symmetry] "How EXACTLY would that form?"
[Calling this a "diamond"] "SQUARES DON'T CEASE TO BE SQUARES WHEN YOU TILT YOUR HEAD"