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tln 24 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Folding Paper Globes

They could get 10% bigger globes out of the same sheet of paper by rotating the icosahedron a bit (14º)

manc_lad 24 days ago | [–]

one of my favourite hacker news quotes. what makes this forum great.

divbzero 24 days ago | [–]

Why not 30°? Is 14° as far as you can turn before the ends of icosahedron hit the top and bottom of the landscape sheet of paper?

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