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by robinhouston 1739 days ago
There’s a 2018 blog post from Uber Engineering[0] which has more technical details about the system, and explains:

> Since it is not possible to tile the icosahedron with only hexagons, we chose to introduce twelve pentagons, one at each of the icosahedron vertices.

0. https://eng.uber.com/h3/