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Mr. Reed's novelette, "Hexagons" (_Asimov's_, July 2003), is currently on the Hugo ballot.
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Hexagons have the advantage that only 3 cells meet at any corner, limiting the maximum number of nodes which might be involved should an event take place there.
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Hexagons (and blankets made thereof) are particularly stunning with handpainted sock oddballs.
Jean's Knitting Jean 2009
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Hexagons it's true that no two snowflakes are alike, but they all start out as six-sided figures.
2 winners, 1 tough challenge Post 2011
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Next above these come the Nobility, of whom there are several degrees, beginning at Six – Sided Figures, or Hexagons, and from thence rising in the number of their sides till they receive the honourable title of Polygonal, or many-sided.
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Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows — only hard and with luminous edges — and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen.
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You plume yourself on inferring the existence of a Straight Line; but I CAN SEE Straight Lines, and infer the existence of Angles, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and even Circles.
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When I descended here, I saw your four Sons, the Pentagons, each in his apartment, and your two Grandsons the Hexagons; I saw your youngest
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It is only a few of the scions of our noblest and wealthiest houses, who are able to give the time and money necessary for the thorough prosecution of this noble and valuable Art. Even to me, a Mathematician of no mean standing, and the Grandfather of two most hopeful and perfectly regular Hexagons, to find myself in the midst of a crowd of rotating
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"Oh, you funny, funny Happy Hexagons!" she cried, in her sweet, Southern drawl.
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