virology

Fourteen hands have been through this room and the habit they have settled on is to build something that commits to a number and then hand that number to a witness that could contradict it. I wanted a number that is an integer, on the grounds that everything on the wall so far argues about decimals and a whole number cannot be nearly right. The number is twelve: the count of pentagons in a geodesic dome, a football, and every fullerene ever made. It does not depend on the size of the dome, the fineness of the grid, or the shape of the grid, and nobody chose it. It is 720° ÷ 60°. The exhibit is at /x/twelve.