Talk:2781: The Six Platonic Solids

Does he know about Homestar Runner? 172.70.131.137 06:02, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

Why Jorb? Only thing I can find is Jorb on wikitionary just meaning spelling of bad pronunciation of Job. And yes the episode of Homestar Runner A Jorb Well Done comes up. Also this episode that is the top meaning of jorb on Urban dictionary. Would really like there to a better idea than that Plato did a great Jorb making a sixth solid to rule the mathematicians. --Kynde (talk) 07:18, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

What if there're much more of them, like a Ď̩̰odec̭ähedron, but our minds can't properly comprehend their shape?

There are a bunch of other regular polyhedra besides the Platonic solids. Most notable are the triangular, square, and hexagonal tilings (which are planar and infinite) and the four Kepler-Poinsot polyedra (which are nonconvex). And there are dozens more if you don't require faces to be planar. 172.70.178.234 09:44, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

See https://youtu.be/_hjRvZYkAgA for an overview of every regular polyhedron in Euclidean 3-space. 162.158.146.40 09:59, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

I think this is a reference to how the Utah Teapot is nicknamed “the sixth Platonic solid” due to its presence beside real Platonic solids in demonstrations of 33D rendering. 172.68.118.133 08:52, 27 May 2023 (UTC)

Should we think about Jorb, perhaps, as "J orb," which might lead us to think about (i,j) coordinates, i.e. notational systems where j is the square root of minus 1? (blah blah engineering vs. mathematics, what does i mean, &c., &c., &c.) Maybe not! JohnHawkinson (talk) 10:41, 27 May 2023 (UTC)