Great grand stellated 120-cell

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Great grand stellated 120-cell

Orthogonal projection
Type Schläfli-Hess polychoron
Cells 120 {5/2,3}
Faces 720 {5/2}
Edges 1200
Vertices 600
Vertex figure {3,3}
Schläfli symbol {5/2,3,3}
Coxeter-Dynkin diagram Image:CD_ring.pngImage:CD_5-2.pngImage:CD_dot.pngImage:CD_3.pngImage:CD_dot.pngImage:CD_3.pngImage:CD_dot.png
Symmetry group H4, [3,3,5]
Dual Grand 600-cell
Properties --
Orthogonal projection as a wireframe
Orthogonal projection as a wireframe

In geometry, the great grand stellated 120-cell is a star polychoron with Schläfli symbol {5/2,3,3}. It is one of 10 regular Schläfli-Hess polychora. It is unique among the 10 for having 600 vertices, the same as the regular convex 120-cell.

It is one of four regular star polychora discovered by Ludwig Schläfli. It is named by John Horton Conway, extending the naming system by Arthur Cayley for the Kepler-Poinsot solids, and the only one containing all three modifiers in the name.

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  • Edmund Hess, (1883) Einleitung in die Lehre von der Kugelteilung mit besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer Anwendung auf die Theorie der Gleichflächigen und der gleicheckigen Polyeder [1].
  • H. S. M. Coxeter, Regular Polytopes, 3rd. ed., Dover Publications, 1973. ISBN 0-486-61480-8.

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