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Interactive Problem 2: Combinatorics of a Soccer Ball

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Sepp Herberger (the famed coach of the German national soccer team in 1954) coined the sentence ``The ball is round''. Contrary to this statement, let us assume that a soccer ball is a polyhedron.

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Determine the number $ V$ of the vertices by means of the Euler polyhedron formula.


Answer:

$ V$ =


   

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