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, the small triambic icosahedron is a

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composed of 20 intersecting non-regular

hexagon In geometry, a hexagon (from Ancient Greek, Greek , , meaning "six", and , , meaning "corner, angle") is a six-sided polygon. The total of the internal angles of any simple polygon, simple (non-self-intersecting) hexagon is 720°. Regular hexa ...

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. It has 60

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and 32 vertices, and

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of −8. It is an isohedron, meaning that all of its faces are symmetric to each other.

Branko Grünbaum Branko Grünbaum ( he, ברנקו גרונבאום; 2 October 1929 – 14 September 2018) was a Croatian-born mathematician of Jewish descentsmall hexagonal hexecontahedron is another example.

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The faces are equilateral hexagons, with alternating angles of

\arccos(-\frac)\approx 104.477\,512\,185\,93^

and

\arccos(\frac)+60^\approx 135.522\,487\,814\,07^

. The

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equals

\arccos(-\frac)\approx 109.471\,220\,634\,49

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The external surface of the small triambic icosahedron (removing the parts of each hexagonal face that are surrounded by other faces, but interpreting the resulting disconnected plane figures as still being faces) coincides with one of the stellations of the icosahedron. (1st Edn University of Toronto (1938)) If instead, after removing the surrounded parts of each face, each resulting triple of coplanar triangles is considered to be three separate faces, then the result is one form of the

triakis icosahedron In geometry, the triakis icosahedron (or kisicosahedronConway, Symmetries of things, p.284) is an Archimedean dual solid, or a Catalan solid. Its dual is the truncated dodecahedron. Cartesian coordinates Let \phi be the golden ratio. The 12 po ...

, formed by adding a triangular pyramid to each face of an

icosahedron In geometry, an icosahedron ( or ) is a polyhedron with 20 faces. The name comes and . The plural can be either "icosahedra" () or "icosahedrons". There are infinitely many non- similar shapes of icosahedra, some of them being more symmetrica ...

. The dual polyhedron of the small triambic icosahedron is the small ditrigonal icosidodecahedron. As this is a

uniform polyhedron In geometry, a uniform polyhedron has regular polygons as faces and is vertex-transitive (i.e., there is an isometry mapping any vertex onto any other). It follows that all vertices are congruent. Uniform polyhedra may be regular (if also fa ...

, the small triambic icosahedron is a uniform dual. Other uniform duals whose exterior surfaces are stellations of the icosahedron are the medial triambic icosahedron and the

great triambic icosahedron In geometry, the great triambic icosahedron and medial triambic icosahedron (or midly triambic icosahedron) are visually identical Dual polyhedron, dual uniform polyhedra. The exterior surface also represents the The Fifty-Nine Icosahedra, De2f2 ...

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* {{mathworld , urlname = SmallTriambicIcosahedron, title = Small triambic icosahedron Polyhedral stellation Dual uniform polyhedra

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