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Schläfli symbol

noun

Etymology

From Schläfli (“a surname”) + symbol, after 19th-century Swiss mathematician Ludwig Schläfli (1814–1895).

Definitions

  1. A notation that recursively encodes certain properties of a specified regular polytope or…

    A notation that recursively encodes certain properties of a specified regular polytope or tessellation.

    • The 24-cell has has 24 octahedral cells, 24 vertices, 96 triangular faces and 96 edges. Its Schläfli symbol is {3, 4, 3} from which we see that the vertex figure is a cube.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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