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Dihedron


A dihedron is a regular tiling or map on a sphere composed of two regular p-gons, each occupying a hemisphere and with edge lengths of 2pi/p on a unit sphere. Its Schläfli symbol is {p,2}. Its dual is the hosohedron {2,p}.


See also

Digon, Hosohedron

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References

Coxeter, H. S. M. Regular Polytopes, 3rd ed. New York: Dover, p. 12, 1973.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Dihedron." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Dihedron.html

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