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Is it possible to have a regular solid figure that has 12 pentagonal faces and 12 corners.
I have looked at Euler's findings and the table of faces,sides and vertices but cannot find the above combination. What am I missing?
I have looked at Euler's findings and the table of faces,sides and vertices but cannot find the above combination. What am I missing?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I'm don't think that the number of corners is possible but if you look at a 12 sided dice used in some board games you will see what a 12 sided figure looks like and it does have pentagonal faces.
you can see an example at:
http://www.dice.co.uk/poly_re.htm