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This Demonstration gives a symmetrical decomposition of a cube into eight golden prolate rhombohedra plus six halves and 12 quarters of a rhombic dodecahedron of the second kind.

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

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[I] I. Hafner and T. Zitko, "From Dissection of the Cube to Space Filling with Prolate Rhombohedra and Rhombic Dodecahedra of the Second Kind," Visual Mathematics 4(2), 2002.

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