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Octahedron

Octahedron

Octahedron is a Platonic solid, with 6 vertices, 12 edges and 8 faces, symmetry group Oh of order 48.

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convex deltahedron platonic regular uniform

Properties

Vertices
6
Edges
12
Faces
8
Convex
yes
Density
1
Symmetry
Oh
Orbifold
*432
Symmetry order
48
Dual
cube
Volume
{'value': 0.4714045207910291, 'exact': 'sqrt(2)/3', 'source': 'pslq'}
Surface area
{'value': 3.4641016151377415, 'exact': '2*sqrt(3)', 'source': 'pslq'}
Circumradius
{'value': 0.7071067811865466, 'exact': 'sqrt(2)/2', 'source': 'pslq'}
Inradius
[{'face': '{3}', 'exact': 'sqrt(6)/6', 'value': 0.4082482904638625}]
Midradius
{'value': 0.4999999999999995, 'exact': '1/2', 'source': 'pslq'}

Dual

cube