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Some Regular Compounds of Star-Polyhedra

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 November 2016

Anthony Smith
Anthony Smith*
Affiliation:
Trinity College, Cambridge
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It is well known that the simpler regular solids can be assembled into compounds which have, as a whole, the symmetry of a more complicated solid : two tetrahedra with a symmetry of a cube, five cubes with that of a dodecahedron, and so forth ([1] p. 134, [2] p. 134).

Type
Research Article
Information
The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 57 , Issue 399 , February 1973 , pp. 39 - 46
Copyright
Copyright © Mathematical Association 1973

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