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regular polyhedron - any one of five solids whose faces are congruent regular polygons and whose polyhedral angles are all congruent

ideal solid, Platonic body, Platonic solid, regular convex polyhedron, regular convex solid

polyhedron - a solid figure bounded by plane polygons or faces

regular tetrahedron - a tetrahedron with four equilateral triangular faces

cube, regular hexahedron - a hexahedron with six equal squares as faces

regular dodecahedron - a dodecahedron with twelve regular pentagons as faces

regular octahedron - an octahedron with eight equilateral triangles as faces

regular icosahedron - an icosahedron with twenty equilateral triangles as faces

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In the course of time, the dodecahedron, the regular polyhedron built up out of twelve pentagons, became a second subject of Cans' research.

The pentature of Gerard Caris

Name of Polyhedra V F E Tetrahedron 4 4 6 Hexahedron (cube) 8 6 12 Octahedron 6 8 12 Dodecahedron 20 12 30 Icosahedron 12 20 30 One way to figure out how the number of vertices (corners) and edges that a regular polyhedron has without counting is to imagine putting it together from separate figures in the net.

Responses to the Nets and Polyhedra Problem

A regular polyhedron is a three-dimensional solid in which all facets are made of identical regular polygons.

Geodesic domes for amateur observers

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