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Why does a dodecahedron have twice as many faces as a cube?

This is the output of the TeX←Scm program which is descibed on another page on this Web site.

Here is a printable version of the program PolyHedronism. poly.ps or poly.pdf .
They are both the same, get the format that works for you.

Get the printable file first. You need not print it if you have another way to read it. Start with "Geometric Questions" on page 4 to get the answer to the question above.

"PolyHedronism" is a test of a literate programming tool for Scheme. It draws polyhedra and explains how it does it. This is the source code.
poly.scm (35 Kbytes)

This is the same as it was 2022-12-05, when it was last put on this (or a similar) web page, but has been re-processed by TeX←Scm and put here 2023-11-22.

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