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%I #16 Dec 12 2018 11:18:45
%S 11,20,21,31,41,51,61,71,81,91,101,201,202,301,401,501,601,701,801,901
%N Finite set of numbers found inscribed on faces of a 17th or 18th century Mughal gold box in the shape of an icosahedron, from the treasury of Tipu Sultan.
%C The significance of these numbers is not known. One possible explanation has been proposed by Paul Bien, see below. The box is of interest because of its rarity and great value.
%D Paul Bien, paper presented at the 10th Conference on Fibonacci Numbers and their Applications (2002) but which did not appear in the Proceedings. It appeared in an earlier format in The Eighth Midwest History of Mathematics Comference, October 2000.
%D Harry Waldman, MAA is offered opportunity to buy a unique gold logo, FOCUS (Math. Assoc. Amer.), Vol. 26 (No. 9, 2006), p. 13. [The icosahedron is the logo of the Math. Assoc. America.]
%H Rohit Gupta, <a href="http://compasswallah.tumblr.com/post/96251522913/the-icosahedron-of-tipoo-sultan">The icosahedron of Tipoo Sultan</a> (2014)
%H Brian Hayes, <a href="http://bit-player.org/2006/math-baubles">Math baubles</a>
%H National Galleries of Scotland, <a href="http://www.nationalgalleries.org/tipu/thistle211.htm">Icosahedron</a>
%H Saratoga Fine Art, <a href="http://www.saratogafineart.com/5223a.jpg">Picture</a>
%e The numbered faces are as follows:
%e ......./ \../ \
%e ....../202\/601\
%e ......-----------
%e ......\901/\701/
%e .......\ /801\/
%e ------------------------
%e \ 11/\91/\ 71/\ 51/\ 31/\
%e .\ /20\/ 81\/61\/ 41\ /21\
%e ..-------------------------
%e ..\101/\201/\301/\401/\501/
%e ...\/...\/...\/...\/...\/
%e The hinge is on the edge common to the faces 71 and 801 with the top section as shown here being on the lid. Paul Bien relates the sums of numbers in the top, round the middle bottom and the total to give approximations (to 3 decimal places) to Pi, Pi squared, Pi cubed, Phi (golden mean), Phi squared, Phi cubed, root 2, root 3 and root 6 [Comments from Ron Knott, Dec 16 2006]
%K nonn,fini,full,unkn
%O 1,1
%A _N. J. A. Sloane_, based on email from T. D. Noe, Dec 15 2006