Dissection of a Cube into Five Solids

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This Demonstration gives a dissection of a cube into a rhombic hexecontahedron, a rhombic triacontahedron, and three congruent rhombic solids.

Contributed by: Izidor Hafner (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA


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Since the hexecontahedron and the triacontahedron can be dissected into a dodecahedron, an icosahedron, and an icosidodecahedron, the cube can be dissected into a combination of these three solids and rhombic solids.



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