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120-cell

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Description

The 120-cell is the convex regular polytope in ℝ4\R^4 with Schläfli symbol {5,3,3}\set{5, 3, 3}. Its cells are 120120 regular dodecahedra, three around each edge, and four cells meet at each vertex. It has 600600 vertices, 12001200 edges, 720720 pentagonal faces and 120120 cells.

Check of the counts: each dodecahedron has 1212 pentagons, and each pentagon lies in exactly 22 cells, so there are 120⋅12/2=720120 \cdot 12 / 2 = 720 faces. Each pentagon has 55 edges, and each edge lies in 33 pentagons, so there are 720⋅5/3=1200720 \cdot 5 / 3 = 1200 edges. The vertex figure is a regular tetrahedron {3,3}\set{3,3}, so each vertex lies on 44 edges, and there are 1200⋅2/4=6001200 \cdot 2 / 4 = 600 vertices. Then 600−1200+720−120=0600 - 1200 + 720 - 120 = 0, as Euler's relation for convex 44-polytopes requires.

Remarks

The 120-cell is the dual of the 600-cell. Its symmetry group is the reflection group H4H_4, of order 1440014400. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the regular dodecahedron {5,3}\set{5, 3}. Three dodecahedra fit around an edge with a small angular gap, since the dihedral angle of the dodecahedron is about 116.57∘116.57^\circ.

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