• In elementary geometry, a polytope is a geometric object with flat sides (faces). Polytopes are the generalization of three-dimensional polyhedra to any...
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    A convex polytope is a special case of a polytope, having the additional property that it is also a convex set contained in the n {\displaystyle n} -dimensional...
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    In mathematics, a regular polytope is a polytope whose symmetry group acts transitively on its flags, thus giving it the highest degree of symmetry. In...
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    In mathematics, a regular 4-polytope or regular polychoron is a regular four-dimensional polytope. They are the four-dimensional analogues of the regular...
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    In geometry, a 4-polytope (sometimes also called a polychoron, polycell, or polyhedroid) is a four-dimensional polytope. It is a connected and closed figure...
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    polytope is a higher-dimensional generalization of a prism. An n-dimensional prismatic polytope is constructed from two (n − 1)-dimensional polytopes...
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    mathematics, an abstract polytope is an algebraic partially ordered set which captures the dyadic property of a traditional polytope without specifying purely...
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    6-dimensional geometry, there are 39 uniform polytopes with E6 symmetry. The two simplest forms are the 221 and 122 polytopes, composed of 27 and 72 vertices respectively...
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    Polyhedron (redirect from 3-polytope)
    generalization of a 2-dimensional polygon and a 3-dimensional specialization of a polytope, a more general concept in any number of dimensions. Convex polyhedra are...
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  • polyhedra and higher-dimensional polytopes, the term is also used to mean an element of any dimension of a more general polytope (in any number of dimensions)...
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    In geometry, a cross-polytope, hyperoctahedron, orthoplex, or cocube is a regular, convex polytope that exists in n-dimensional Euclidean space. A 2-dimensional...
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    Tesseract (category Regular 4-polytopes)
    regular 4-polytopes. The tesseract is also called an 8-cell, C8, (regular) octachoron, or cubic prism. It is the four-dimensional measure polytope, taken...
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    generally, a vertex of a polyhedron or polytope is convex, if the intersection of the polyhedron or polytope with a sufficiently small sphere centered...
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    regular polytopes in Euclidean, spherical and hyperbolic spaces. This table shows a summary of regular polytope counts by rank. Only counting polytopes of...
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  • Polygon (redirect from 2-polytope)
    polytopes. (In other conventions, the words polyhedron and polytope are used in any dimension, with the distinction between the two that a polytope is...
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  • A polytope is a geometric object with flat sides, which exists in any general number of dimensions. The following list of polygons, polyhedra and polytopes...
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  • Octahedron (redirect from 3-cross-polytope)
    octahedron is the three-dimensional case of the more general concept of a cross-polytope. A regular octahedron is an octahedron that is a regular polyhedron. All...
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  • The polyhedral model (also called the polytope method) is a mathematical framework for programs that perform large numbers of operations -- too large to...
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  • The Birkhoff polytope Bn (also called the assignment polytope, the polytope of doubly stochastic matrices, or the perfect matching polytope of the complete...
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    In 8-dimensional geometry, the 421 is a semiregular uniform 8-polytope, constructed within the symmetry of the E8 group. It was discovered by Thorold Gosset...
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    In geometry, a monostatic polytope (or unistable polyhedron) is a d-polytope which "can stand on only one face". They were described in 1969 by J. H. Conway...
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    geometry, a five-dimensional polytope (or 5-polytope or polyteron) is a polytope in five-dimensional space, bounded by (4-polytope) facets, pairs of which...
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    5-cell (redirect from 0 30 polytope)
    In geometry, the 5-cell is the convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol {3,3,3}. It is a 5-vertex four-dimensional object bounded by five tetrahedral cells...
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    polyhedron, like this cube. Every edge is shared by three or more faces in a 4-polytope, as seen in this projection of a tesseract. In geometry, an edge is a particular...
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  • In mathematics, a Delzant polytope is a convex polytope in R n {\displaystyle \mathbb {R} ^{n}} such that for each vertex v {\displaystyle v} , exactly...
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  • Tetrahedron (redirect from 1 10 polytope)
    6–10. Coxeter, H. S. M. (1948). Regular Polytopes. Methuen and Co. Coxeter, H.S.M. (1973). Regular Polytopes (3rd ed.). New York: Dover Publications....
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    7-simplex (redirect from 0 60 polytope)
    In 7-dimensional geometry, a 7-simplex is a self-dual regular 7-polytope. It has 8 vertices, 28 edges, 56 triangle faces, 70 tetrahedral cells, 56 5-cell...
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    geometry, there are 255 uniform polytopes with E8 symmetry. The three simplest forms are the 421, 241, and 142 polytopes, composed of 240, 2160 and 17280...
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  • mathematics, a matroid polytope, also called a matroid basis polytope (or basis matroid polytope) to distinguish it from other polytopes derived from a matroid...
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    Schläfli symbol (category Polytope notation systems)
    , q , r , . . . } {\displaystyle \{p,q,r,...\}} that defines regular polytopes and tessellations. The Schläfli symbol is named after the 19th-century...
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