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The polyhedra that fill space when they are repeated are the cube, pyramids that form cubes, any parallelepiped, the rhombo-dodecahedron, right-angled triangular prisms, hexagonal right-angled triangles with hexagons that form a mosaic, the truncated octahedron (semi-regular formed by hexagons and squares)… and many other combinations with more than two types of polyhedra.

Question

Why does any right-angled triangular prism form a tile?

Answer  Solution

 Archimedean polyhedra

Index

Catalan's polyhedra


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