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Hosohedron


A hosohedron is a regular tiling or map on a sphere composed of p digons or spherical lunes, all with the same two vertices and the same vertex angles, 2pi/p. Its Schläfli symbol is {2,p}. Its dual is the dihedron {p,2}.


See also

Digon, Dihedron, Spherical Lune

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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. "Hosohedron." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Hosohedron.html

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