What is the total number of sides on the loonies in the smallest non-trivial 6-pointed star?
A loonie is the Canadian 1 dollar coin which is not quite round, it is a hendecagon. There have been recent questions here about polygonal and stellar numbers, numbers of coins which can be arranged into filled-in polygons or stellated polygons (stars). Usually such arrangements begin with a single coin, the trivial case. I want a recognizable star, or what some might recognize as a snowflake pattern, so more that… Continue reading
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