Euclid's Construction of a Regular Octahedron (XIII.14)
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Let be the center of an arbitrary sphere, and be two perpendicular diameters, and be the diameter perpendicular to the plane defined by and . Then is a regular octahedron.
Contributed by: Milana Dabic (May 2011)
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Published: May 12 2011