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Buckyball of Buckyballs


	Sixty truncated icosahedra connected edge-to-edge are placed at the vertices of a larger truncated icosahedron. This assembly can be considered as the first stage of a fractal structure. The ratio of the sizes of buckyballs is , where is the golden ratio.


	Contributed by: Sándor Kabai

Truncated Icosahedron (Wolfram MathWorld)

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Contributed by: Sándor Kabai

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