Pentagons Sentence Examples

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  • In crystallography, the regular or ordinary dodecahedron is an impossible form since the faces cut the axes in irrational ratios; the "pentagonal dodecahedron" of crystallographers has irregular pentagons for faces, while the geometrical solid, on the other hand, has regular ones.

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  • However, the American mathematician George Birkhoff showed in 1913 that a particular arrangement of four adjacent pentagons is reducible.

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  • Three pentagons may be placed at a common vertex to form a solid angle, and by forming several such sets and placing them in juxtaposition .a solid is obtained having 12 pentagonal faces, 30 edges, and 20 vertices.

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  • Square or rectangular wedding cakes look classic with their clean lines, and more unusual shapes, such as hexagons or pentagons, make for beautiful presentations.

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  • Then move to pentagons (5 sides), hexagons (6 sides), and octagons (8 sides), etc. if it appears that children have mastered the first set of shapes.

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  • The pentagons belong to a dodecahedron, and 20 triangles to an icosahedron; the remaining 60 triangles belong to no regular solid.

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  • So now we have 6 pentagons in total, half the total to be found going around the ball.

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  • Second order pentagons are made from six first order pentagons plus five first order triangles.

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