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Why are no polyhedrons composed of regular hexagons?

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If you relax your conditions so that the hexagons need not be regular and all vertices need not be the same you can consider the Euler characteristic V - E + F of the polyhedron. For the polyhedron not to be self-intersecting the characteristic must be 2. read more

The angle of a regular hexagon is 120 degrees. In fact, the angles of any hexagon have to add up to 720, so some would inevitably be equal to or greater than 120 degrees. The minimum number of polygons meeting at the corner of a polyhedron is three. read more

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