…is how quickly it can jump from providing a good background on a subject to providing far more detail than anyone could ever need to know. On honeycomb, Wikipedia authors wrote:
The closed ends of the honeycomb cells are also an example of geometric efficiency, albeit three-dimensional and little-noticed. The ends are trihedral (i.e., composed of three planes) sections of rhombic dodecahedra, with the dihedral angles of all adjacent surfaces measuring 120°, the angle that minimizes surface area for a given volume. (The angle formed by the edges at the pyramidal apex is approximately 109° 28’ 16” (= 180° - arccos(1/3)).)
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