The classical soccer ball, introduced at the world championship 1970,
consists of pentagonal and hexagonal leather pieces sewn together
along the edges, see picture. Each hexagon is
surrounded by alternatively pentagons and hexagons, and each pentagon
is surrounded by only hexagons. At each corner exactly three leather
pieces meet.
Show that with this pattern there is only one possible size of the
ball, counted as the number of pentagons and hexagons. Also find these
numbers.
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