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Plato’s fourth solid and the “pyritohedron”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 August 2016
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Michael Deakin’s article (“A simple proof of the Beijing theorem” 76 pp251-4) will have set readers thoughts running in a number of directions. Mine turned backwards in time, towards rational approximations to the golden ratio and crystallography. The symmetries of the crystal lattice preclude the appearance of a regular pentagonal face or true 5-axis. However fair rational approximations are attained with surprising ease.
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