Solution

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Use outward normal vectors to the two faces. The cross products
point away from the opposite vertices, since and . Their Euclidean norms are and , and their dot product is . The interior dihedral angle of a convex polyhedron is supplementary to the outward-normal angle, so
This also equals the cosine of the acute angle between the unoriented face planes. The outward-normal angle itself has cosine ; keeping that distinction avoids a sign ambiguity.

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