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Ciro Santilli (@cirosantilli,  40) ... Mathematics Area of mathematics Geometry Polytope Regular polytope Classification of regular polytopes
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Examples: square, octahedron.
Take (0,0,0,…,0) and flip one of 0's to ±1. Therefore has 2×D vertices.
Each edge E is linked to every other edge, except it's opposite -E.

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The convex hull of the positive and negative coordinate unit vectors. Its boundary triangulates a sphere, and each face contains at most one member of each antipodal pair of coordinate unit vectors. This makes its barycentric subdivision useful for triangulating Real projective space.
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