120-cell
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Description
The 120-cell is the convex regular polytope in with Schläfli symbol . Its cells are regular dodecahedra, three around each edge, and four cells meet at each vertex. It has vertices, edges, pentagonal faces and cells.
Check of the counts: each dodecahedron has pentagons, and each pentagon lies in exactly cells, so there are faces. Each pentagon has edges, and each edge lies in pentagons, so there are edges. The vertex figure is a regular tetrahedron , so each vertex lies on edges, and there are vertices. Then , as Euler's relation for convex -polytopes requires.
Remarks
The 120-cell is the dual of the 600-cell. Its symmetry group is the reflection group , of order . It is the four-dimensional analogue of the regular dodecahedron . Three dodecahedra fit around an edge with a small angular gap, since the dihedral angle of the dodecahedron is about .
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| Tag | 3RQEK50CP0 |
|---|---|
| URI | m2://3RQEK50CP0 |
| Kind | object |
| Writing | W0 stub |
| MSC | 51M20, 52B15, 52B11 |
| Instance of | Regular polytope |
| Uses | Schläfli symbol |
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