... the ball most commonly seen today was first designed in the 1960s by architect Richard Buckminster Fuller, whose forte was designing buildings using minimal materials. Previously, leather soccer balls consisted of 18 sections stitched together: six panels of three strips apiece. The soccer ball Fuller designed stitched together 20 hexagons with 12 pentagons for a total of 32 panels. Its official shape is a spherical polyhedron, but the design was nicknamed the “buckyball.” — mentalfloss.com
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so wrong
Alas it ain't so. in comments on Mental Floss now:
Bucky, had nothing to do with the ball's design. It was a well-known way to make a sphere: 12 pentagons, each surrounded by hexagons, 20 in all, for a total of 32 faces and 60 vertices, the corners where the hexagons and pentagons meet. The vertices would be the carbon atoms in carbon 60.
I can't believe this howling anachronism has been allowed to stand for 10 months. Now you've sucked John Gruber into it, which is why I'm here.
It is so sad to see such misinformation spread by wanna be journalists. Just a minute of fact check would of made clear ... . the error.
Just because you caqn type doesnt make you a writer.
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