Dissecting and Reassembling a Cube into Three Different Solids
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This Demonstration shows the dissection of a cube into four pieces that can be reassembled to give a quarter of a rhombic dodecahedron of the second kind, a rectangular solid or a parallelepiped.
Contributed by: Izidor Hafner (February 2019)
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The volume of the rhombic dodecahedron of the second kind is , where is the larger diagonal of the golden rhombus, so the edge of the cube has length .
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