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Pentagons reflect human proportions

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Because mapping out a human body inside a five-sided shape apparently explains the cosmos. The pentagon, and its cousin the pentagram, represent the five appendages of the human form. Mystics use it to prove that our weird bipedal anatomy is perfectly mathematically sound.

Pentagons reflect human proportions
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