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A Construction for Wythoffian Polytopes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

G. C. Shephard
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This paper contains an account of a simple method of deriving the coordinates of the vertices of any uniform polytope or honeycomb (degenerate polytope) whose symmetry group is generated by reflections.

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Canadian Journal of Mathematics , Volume 6 , 1954 , pp. 128 - 134
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1954

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