hosohedron
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thumb|This beach ball would be a hosohedron with 6 [[spherical lune faces, if the 2 white caps on the ends were removed and the lunes extended to meet at the poles.]]
Key facts
- Polyhedron.name
- Set of regular n-gonal hosohedra
- Polyhedron.image
- Hexagonal Hosohedron.svg
- Polyhedron.caption
- Example regular hexagonal hosohedron on a sphere
- Polyhedron.type
- regular polyhedron or spherical tiling
- Polyhedron.euler
- 2
- Polyhedron.faces
- digons
- Polyhedron.vertices
- 2
- Polyhedron.schläfli
- {{math|{2,n} }}
- Polyhedron.symmetry
- order
- Polyhedron.rotsymmetry
- order
- Polyhedron.dual
- regular -gonal dihedron
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- spherical polyhedron
- Image
- Hexagonal Hosohedron.svg
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- Commons category
- Hosohedra
- dual to
- polygonal dihedron
- Schläfli symbol
- {2,n}
- studied by
- solid geometry
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- Hosohedra as regular polyhedra
- Kaleidoscopic symmetry
- Relationship with the Steinmetz solid
- Derivative polyhedra
- Apeirogonal hosohedron
- Hosotopes
- Etymology
- See also
- References
- External links
{{Infobox polyhedron | name =Set of regular n-gonal hosohedra | image =Hexagonal Hosohedron.svg | caption =Example regular hexagonal hosohedron on a sphere | type =regular polyhedron or spherical tiling | euler =2 | faces = digons | edges = | vertices =2 | vertex_config = | schläfli = {{math|{2,n} }} | wythoff = | coxeter = | symmetry = order | rotsymmetry = order | surface_area = | volume = | angle = | dual =regular -gonal dihedron | properties = | vertex_figure = | net =}}
thumb|This beach ball would be a hosohedron with 6 [[spherical lune faces, if the 2 white caps on the ends were removed and the lunes extended to meet at the poles.]]
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