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Platonic solids

The regular polyhedra (solids whose faces are identical regular polygons like squares or equilateral triangles) are named after the Greek

philisopher Plato. There are just five of them:

tetrahedron - 4 triangles

cube (or hexahedron) - 6 squares

octahedron - 8 triangles

dodecahedron - 12 pentagons

icosahedron - 20 triangles

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Uploaded on October 5, 2009
Taken on October 4, 2009