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From: moroney@jon.DEC
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Archemedian polyhedra
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Date: Tue, 25-Sep-84 09:15:59 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 25 09:15:59 1984
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To: alice!td
	Sorry, I misunderstood you.  I just associated a Greek name applied
to polyhedra to the 5 Platonic solids.  Ignore my last message (although
the part about the edge duals holds)  However, I would guess that ~80%
of those reading your last message made the same mistake. You should have
explained what Archemedians were (I never heard of them until now) to
prevent confusion.
  Can you point me to reference material on this subject? I am fascinated
by this subject.  Also, how many sides/edges/vertices each has?
Too bad you can't send models over the net, I would ask for them, too.
  To those who would like to know what certain common shapes are, a soccer
ball (with faces flattened) is a 'truncated icosahedron' and the 3-dimensional
stop sign which started this discussion is a 'rhombicuboctahedron' (correct me
if I am wrong) (sorry, lost the name of the original poster)

	Stupid Question of the Day: Is the huge ball of the Epcot Center
in Disney World a fair die? (ignore the base, holes, etc. of course)
How many sides does it have? (same assumptions as above)

					Mike Moroney
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