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  2. Straightedge and compass construction - Wikipedia

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    Doubling the cube is the construction, using only a straightedge and compass, of the edge of a cube that has twice the volume of a cube with a given edge. This is impossible because the cube root of 2, though algebraic, cannot be computed from integers by addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and taking square roots.

  3. Cube - Wikipedia

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    Like other cuboids, every face of a cube has four vertices, each of which connects with three congruent lines. These edges form square faces, making the dihedral angle of a cube between every two adjacent squares being the interior angle of a square, 90°. Hence, the cube has six faces, twelve edges, and eight vertices.

  4. Prince Rupert's cube - Wikipedia

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    The other two rectangle vertices are the reflections of the first two across the center of the cube. [4] If the aspect ratio is not constrained, the rectangle with the largest area that fits within a cube is the one of aspect ratio that has two opposite edges of the cube as two of its sides, and two face diagonals as the other two sides. [26 ...

  5. Doubling the cube - Wikipedia

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    In algebraic terms, doubling a unit cube requires the construction of a line segment of length x, where x 3 = 2; in other words, x = , the cube root of two. This is because a cube of side length 1 has a volume of 1 3 = 1, and a cube of twice that volume (a volume of 2) has a side length of the cube root of 2. The impossibility of doubling the ...

  6. Delaunay triangulation - Wikipedia

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    If the Delaunay triangulation is calculated using the Bowyer–Watson algorithm then the circumcenters of triangles having a common vertex with the "super" triangle should be ignored. Edges going to infinity start from a circumcenter and they are perpendicular to the common edge between the kept and ignored triangle.

  7. Regular icosahedron - Wikipedia

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    [2] Three mutually perpendicular golden ratio rectangles, with edges connecting their corners, form a regular icosahedron. Another way to construct it is by putting two points on each surface of a cube. In each face, draw a segment line between the midpoints of two opposite edges and locate two points with the golden ratio distance from each ...

  8. 5-cell - Wikipedia

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    For example, the special case of the 4-orthoscheme with equal-length perpendicular edges is the characteristic orthoscheme of the 4-cube (also called the tesseract or 8-cell), the 4-dimensional analogue of the 3-dimensional cube. If the three perpendicular edges of the 4-orthoscheme are of unit length, then all its edges are of length √ 1 ...

  9. Barycentric coordinate system - Wikipedia

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    A 3-simplex, with barycentric subdivisions of 1-faces (edges) 2-faces (triangles) and 3-faces (body). In geometry, a barycentric coordinate system is a coordinate system in which the location of a point is specified by reference to a simplex (a triangle for points in a plane, a tetrahedron for points in three-dimensional space, etc.).