Shapely Figures (Posted on 2003-12-12)

	Submitted by SilverKnight
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The five sets should read: {4, 6, 4} {6, 12, 8} {8, 12, 6} {12, 30, 20} {20, 30, 12} These are the number of {Faces, Edges, Vertices} of each of the Platonic solids. You may be familiar with them as the 4 sided, 6 sided, 8 sided, 12 sided, and 20 sided dice. (A 10 sided die is not a Platonic solid.) A Platonic solid is a polyhedron in which all the faces are congruent, regular polygons, and all the solid angles are equal. There are 5 (and only 5) Platonic solids.

	Subject	Author	Date
	answer	K Sengupta	2007-03-16 10:45:25
	re: A stern rebuke !!!!!	Gamer	2003-12-12 20:27:01
	re: Only 5	Penny	2003-12-12 19:28:15
	A stern rebuke !!!!!	Penny	2003-12-12 18:42:35
	re: Ever hear of Occam's Razor?	stern	2003-12-12 16:08:25
	Only 5	Gamer	2003-12-12 15:40:03
	Ever hear of Occam's Razor?	Penny	2003-12-12 13:28:17
	... and of course	Charlie	2003-12-12 12:12:28
	Solution	Brian Smith	2003-12-12 10:42:48
	???	DuCk	2003-12-12 07:09:10