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A053016

Number of faces of Platonic solids in the order tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, icosahedron.

4, 6, 8, 12, 20 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)

	OFFSET	`0,1`
	COMMENTS	`Or, numbers of vertices of Platonic solids in the order tetrahedron, octahedron, cube, icosahedron, dodecahedron.` `Contribution from Eric Desbiaux (moongerms(AT)wanadoo.fr), Feb 15 2009: (Start)` `It appears that the stereographic projection of the Platonic solids requires` `respectively 4, 6, 8, 6 , 10, different colors to represent them. (End)`
	REFERENCES	`H. S. M. Coxeter, Regular Polytopes, 3rd. ed., Dover, NY, 1973.`
	LINKS	`S. Alejandre, Studying Polyhedra` `Anonymous, Polyhedra` `Anonymous, The Platonic Solids` `D. M. Cahir, Platonic Solids` `M. Chaplin, The Platonic Solids` `D. Eberly, Platonic Solids` `W. Fendt, The Platonic Solids` `F. Fernandez, Platonic Solids` `Z. Fiedorowicz, V-E+F=2` `D. A. Fontaine, The Five Platonic Solids` `FreeDictionary.com, Platonic solid` `Polyhedra.mathmos.net, The Platonic Solids` `E. S. Rowland, Regular Polyhedra` `A. Ruediger, The Platonic Solids` `L. Stemkoski, Platonic Solids` `University of St. Andrews, The five Platonic solids` `Utah State University, Platonic Solids` `Visual Geometry Pages, Platonic Solids` `Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Platonic Solid.` `D. Wells, Regular Polyhedra` `Wolfram Research, Polyhedron Explorer` `W. Wu, The Platonic Solids` `P. Alfeld, The Platonic Solids` `G. Tulloue, Plato's Polyhedra` `T. Eveilleau, Les solides de Platon`
	CROSSREFS	`Cf. A053016, A063927.` `Cf. A063722; A063723.` `Sequence in context: A178549 A023374 * A078785 A136254 A146528 A176777` `Adjacent sequences: A053013 A053014 A053015 * A053017 A053018 A053019`
	KEYWORD	`nonn,fini,full`
	AUTHOR	`Jeffrey Keller (jeff(AT)auctionflow.com), Feb 24 2000`

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