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Re:Why nature prefers hexagons by GuiA on Sunday August 06, 2017 @04:15AM (#14940350)
France is only a hexagon if you squint really hard... its shape has also been very arbitrary over the centuries

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ae/Frontier...

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Re:Why nature prefers hexagons by gaius on Sunday August 06, 2017 @04:20AM (#14940375)
I think downvoters may be unaware of the history of the term: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hexagone
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Re:Why nature prefers hexagons by agumonkey on Sunday August 06, 2017 @04:44AM (#14940463)
Quite often I looked at it and saw a Pentagon. Also using the loose hexagone definition, you could probably retrofit it on any point in time anyway :D
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