Octaexon

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Regular octaexon
7-simplex

(Orthographic projection)
Type Regular 7-polytope
Family simplex
6-faces 8 6-simplex
5-faces 28 5-simplex
4-faces 56 5-cell
Cells 70 tetrahedron
Faces 56 triangle
Edges 28
Vertices 8
Vertex figure 6-simplex
Schläfli symbol {3,3,3,3,3,3}
Coxeter-Dynkin diagram Image:CDW_ring.pngImage:CDW_3b.pngImage:CDW_dot.pngImage:CDW_3b.pngImage:CDW_dot.pngImage:CDW_3b.pngImage:CDW_dot.pngImage:CDW_3b.pngImage:CDW_dot.pngImage:CDW_3b.pngImage:CDW_dot.pngImage:CDW_3b.pngImage:CDW_dot.png
Dual Self-dual
Properties convex

An octexon, or octa-7-tope is a 7-simplex, a self-dual regular 7-polytope with 8 vertices, 28 edges, 56 triangle faces, 70 tetrahedral cells, 56 5-cell 5-faces, 28 5-simplex 6-faces, and 8 6-simplex 7-faces.

The name octaexon is derived from octa for eight facets in Greek and -ex for having six-dimensional facets, and -on.

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