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Hexagonal arrangements of circles are about the easiest thing to draw with a pair of compasses as OA mentions. I wonder if we can distinguish 'meaningful' hexfo

• WorldMaker 8y ago
  That "can we distinguish" definitely seems to be the crux of the article. It's definitely a fascinating question with few current answers. Did the British Roman builders use the symbol because the local tribes found it superstitiously useful or did the British Roman builders use it for some other reason (guild mark, perhaps? The fact that it is an early Euclid math problem suggests it's interest to early architects) and the local tribes picked it up as a superstitious symbol? Presumably these are hypotheses you could start to test if you collect enough evidence, which this article is part of chain of people searching for more evidence/patterns. It seems likely we may never know the full story, but an interesting thing to wonder about.