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This comic imagines an alternate reality where mathematicians discover a new {{w|Platonic solid}} beyond the [https://sites.math.washington.edu/~julia/teaching/445_Spring2013/Paper_Euler.pdf five proven to exist in three-dimensional space.] In three dimensions there are 9 {{w|Regular polyhedra}}. A regular polyhedron is a solid figure with all faces being congruent regular polygons with the same number of alike faces arranged around each vertex. While the most familiar, Platonic solids, are referenced in the comic, there are also 4 {{w|Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra}}. In four dimensions, there are six {{w|regular polytope}}s, five of which are analogous to the five Platonic solids in 3-D space, and a sixth which is analogous to the {{w|rhombic dodecahedron}}. | This comic imagines an alternate reality where mathematicians discover a new {{w|Platonic solid}} beyond the [https://sites.math.washington.edu/~julia/teaching/445_Spring2013/Paper_Euler.pdf five proven to exist in three-dimensional space.] In three dimensions there are 9 {{w|Regular polyhedra}}. A regular polyhedron is a solid figure with all faces being congruent regular polygons with the same number of alike faces arranged around each vertex. While the most familiar, Platonic solids, are referenced in the comic, there are also 4 {{w|Kepler–Poinsot polyhedra}}. In four dimensions, there are six {{w|regular polytope}}s, five of which are analogous to the five Platonic solids in 3-D space, and a sixth which is analogous to the {{w|rhombic dodecahedron}}. | ||