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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