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GreekCross

A Greek cross, also called a square cross, is a cross in the shape of a plus sign. It is a non-regular dodecagon.

A square cross appears on the flag of Switzerland, and also on the key to the Swiss Bank deposit box in D. Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code (Brown 2003, pp. 146 and 171-172).

GreekCrossTiling

Greek crosses can tile the plane, as noted by the protagonist Christopher in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Haddon 2003, pp. 203-204).

See also

Cross, Dissection, Dodecagon, Latin Cross, Plus Sign, Saint Andrew's Cross

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References

Brown, D. The Da Vinci Code. New York: Doubleday, 2003.Haddon, M. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. New York: Vintage, 2003.Wells, D. The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Geometry. London: Penguin, p. 89, 1991.

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Greek Cross

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

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