"Cliff" wrote in message
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You may be able to design a golf ball based on icosahedrons
IF it has 300 dimples.
Not in the other cases I suspect though you might try using both
faces & vertexes .... 32 = 2^5 .... Nope.

Or am I wrong G?

Yes you are, indeed. Did you try to model it? I modeled the left golf ball
depicted in
http://content.answers.com/main/cont...ll_designs.jpg

It has one dimple per each icosahedron vertex, four per edge and six dimples
per face, eg. 12*1 + 20*6 + 30*4 = 252 dimples.

I don't know how to arrange the dimples to get exactly 300 dimples.
-h-