Platonic solid
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title:
Platonic solid
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In geometry, a Platonic solid is a convex, regular polyhedron in three-dimensional Euclidean space. Being a regular polyhedron means that the faces are congruent regular polygons, and the same number of faces meet at each vertex. There are only five such polyhedra: Geometers have studied the Platonic solids for thousands of years. They are named for the ancient Greek philosopher Plato, who hypothesized in one of his dialogues, the Timaeus, that the classical elements were made of these regular s
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Convex polyhedron with identical, regular polygon faces
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid
date created:
2001-09-20T02:07:35Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T23:11:58Z
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