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Kugel

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Also known as 2-sphere, orb

Menge aller äquidistanten Punkte um einen zentralen Punkt im dreidimensionalen Raum

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A sphere is a perfectly round three-dimensional shape where every point on its surface sits at an equal distance from a central point, much like how a circle works in two dimensions. Spheres matter because they are a fundamental geometric form that appears throughout mathematics, nature, and everyday objects like planets and balls, making them essential to understanding spatial relationships and physical properties of the world around us.

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Polyhedron<! Please add only parameters that make sense for a sphere. >.name: Sphere
Polyhedron<! Please add only parameters that make sense for a sphere. >.image: File:Sphere wireframe 10deg 6r.svg
Polyhedron<! Please add only parameters that make sense for a sphere. >.caption: A perspective projection of a sphere
Polyhedron<! Please add only parameters that make sense for a sphere. >.euler: 2
Polyhedron<! Please add only parameters that make sense for a sphere. >.symmetry: Orthogonal group|
Polyhedron<! Please add only parameters that make sense for a sphere. >.type: Smooth surfaceAlgebraic surface

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Wikidata facts

Subclass of: geometric primitive
Followed by: torus
Follows: circle
Image: Sphere Quadric.png
Said to be same as: Riemann sphere

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Commons category: Spheres
Euler characteristic: 2
topic's main category: Category:Spheres
has characteristic: genus
different from: three-ball
Commons gallery: Sphere
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Mathematics
described by source: Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition

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Eine Kugel ist in der Geometrie die Kurzbezeichnung für Kugelfläche oder Kugelkörper.

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