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Puzzle # 117  Italiano italiano Français francais
Difficulty level: bulbbulbbulbbulb, some math knowledge required.
The Geometry of the Bees
  
The wax cells of any honeycomb are approximately assembled together as illustrated in fig. 1, so that the opening of every cell faces outward. Each cell is actually a rhombic decahedron, that is an hexagonal prism having three rhombi at its closed end (as shown in fig. 2 below). Continue...
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