The Golden Ratio in Arrangements of an Icosahedron, Tetrahedron, and Octahedron
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A regular octahedron is placed within a regular icosahedron
so that eight of its 20 faces lie in the faces of
.
, in turn, is contained within a regular tetrahedron
whose four faces contain four of the eight faces of
. The vertices of
divide the edges of
in the golden ratio
. If an edge of
is extended in the ratio 1:
, then its endpoint is on the edge of
that divides it in the golden ratio.
Contributed by: Sándor Kabai (June 2016)
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