Coinciding Faces among the Regular Icosahedron, Tetrahedron and Cube
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A regular icosahedron is placed in a cube so that its six edges lie on the faces of the cube
. Then a regular tetrahedron
is placed in
so that its edges are on the face diagonals of
. When the size of
is increased by the golden ratio
, the four faces of
then coincide with the faces of
. The edges of
point in the direction of the vertices of
. The ratio of the edges is
. The icosahedron can be placed in two different positions.
Contributed by: Sándor Kabai (June 2021)
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