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dodecahedron

(n): any polyhedron having twelve plane faces
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11 months ago bilby said:

Don't jump to Conclusions!

11 months ago mollusque said:

Yes, there are references to it at octopus, inner thesaurus and hippopotamonomatopoeia. But no one has made a Tollboth list yet . . .

11 months ago Obikitty said:

Has anyone here read 'The Phantom Tollbooth'? The dodecahedron was one of my favorite characters when I read it as a kid.

about 1 year ago Milosrdenstvi said:

It is often referred to by lower forms of life as a 'D12'.

about 1 year ago chained_bear said:

Constructing? Just saying this is teh alsome!

about 1 year ago Milosrdenstvi said:

Constructing these is just totally awesome. I demonstrated it out of Euclid last year; basically you just mark off golden sections on a cube, raise equal lines perpendicularly, and connect the dots. I even made a model.

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