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Marsaglia (1972) has given a simple method for selecting points with a uniform distribution on the surface of a 4-sphere. This is accomplished by picking two pairs of points ...

The hypotenuse of a right triangle is the triangle's longest side, i.e., the side opposite the right angle. The word derives from the Greek hypo- ("under") and teinein ("to ...

By way of analogy with the eban numbers, iban numbers are defined as numbers whose English names do not contain the letter "i" (i.e., "i" is banned). The first few are 1, 2, ...

The (general) icosahedron is a 20-faced polyhedron (where icos- derives from the Greek word for "twenty" and -hedron comes from the Indo-European word for "seat"). Examples ...

The icosidodecadodecahedron is the uniform polyhedron with Maeder index 44 (Maeder 1997), Wenninger index 83 (Wenninger 1989), Coxeter index 56 (Coxeter et al. 1954), and ...

There are 432 enantiomorphous and 415 chiral fully supported stellations of the icosidodecahedron. Using Miller's rules gives 7071672 enantiomorphous stellations and an ...

The icositruncated dodecadodecahedron, also called the icosidodecatruncated icosidodecahedron, is the uniform polyhedron with Maeder index 45 (Maeder 1997), Wenninger index ...

The extension of a, an ideal in commutative ring A, in a ring B, is the ideal generated by its image f(a) under a ring homomorphism f. Explicitly, it is any finite sum of the ...

The notion of height is defined for proper ideals in a commutative Noetherian unit ring R. The height of a proper prime ideal P of R is the maximum of the lengths n of the ...

The radical of an ideal a in a ring R is the ideal which is the intersection of all prime ideals containing a. Note that any ideal is contained in a maximal ideal, which is ...