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, the rhombicosahedron is a

nonconvex uniform polyhedron In geometry, a uniform star polyhedron is a self-intersecting uniform polyhedron. They are also sometimes called nonconvex polyhedra to imply self-intersecting. Each polyhedron can contain either star polygon faces, star polygon vertex figures, ...

, indexed as U₅₆. It has 50 faces (30

squares In Euclidean geometry, a square is a regular quadrilateral, which means that it has four equal sides and four equal angles (90-degree angles, π/2 radian angles, or right angles). It can also be defined as a rectangle with two equal-length ad ...

and 20

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

), 120 edges and 60 vertices. Its

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is an

antiparallelogram In geometry, an antiparallelogram is a type of self-crossing quadrilateral. Like a parallelogram, an antiparallelogram has two opposite pairs of equal-length sides, but these pairs of sides are not in general parallel. Instead, sides in the lon ...

Related polyhedra

A rhombicosahedron shares its

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with the uniform compounds of 10 or 20 triangular prisms. It additionally shares its edges with the

rhombidodecadodecahedron In geometry, the rhombidodecadodecahedron is a nonconvex uniform polyhedron, indexed as U38. It has 54 faces (30 squares, 12 pentagons and 12 pentagrams), 120 edges and 60 vertices. It is given a Schläfli symbol t0,2, and by the Wythoff const ...

(having the square faces in common) and the icosidodecadodecahedron (having the hexagonal faces in common).

Rhombicosacron

The rhombicosacron is a nonconvex

isohedral In geometry, a tessellation of dimension (a plane tiling) or higher, or a polytope of dimension (a polyhedron) or higher, is isohedral or face-transitive if all its faces are the same. More specifically, all faces must be not merely congrue ...

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. It is the dual of the

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rhombicosahedron, U₅₆. It has 50 vertices, 120

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, and 60 crossed-quadrilateral faces.

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