Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A solid having sixty-two faces—twelve belonging to the regular dodecahedron, twenty to the icosahedron, and thirty to the semi-regular triacontahedron.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geometry : An
Archimedean solid with 20regular triangular faces , 30 regularsquare faces, 12 regularpentagonal faces, 60vertices and 120edges .
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The search for great rhombicosidodecahedron is pretty amazing and perhaps useful if your church building is a later-generation geodesic dome.
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The search for great rhombicosidodecahedron is pretty amazing and perhaps useful if your church building is a later-generation geodesic dome.
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“I’ve had my desktop churn for two weeks on trying the rhombicosidodecahedron,” said Benjamin Grimmer (opens a new tab), an applied mathematician at Johns Hopkins University, referring to a solid made of 62 regular triangles, squares and pentagons.
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