Small hexagonal hexecontahedron

Treating it as a simple non-convex solid (without intersecting surfaces), it has 180 faces (all triangles), 270 edges, and 92 vertices (twelve with degree 10, twenty with degree 12, and sixty with degree 3), giving an Euler characteristic of 92 − 270 + 180 = +2.

The faces are irregular hexagons. Denoting the golden ratio by $\backslash phi$ and putting $\backslash xi\; =\; \backslash frac\{1\}\{4\}-\backslash frac\{1\}\{4\}\backslash sqrt\{1+4\backslash phi\}\backslash approx\; -0.433\backslash ,380\backslash ,199\backslash ,59$, the hexagons have five equal angles of $\backslash arccos(\backslash xi)\backslash approx\; 115.682\backslash ,268\backslash ,170\backslash ,75^\{\backslash circ\}$ and one of $\backslash arccos(\backslash phi^\{-2\}\backslash xi-\backslash phi^\{-1\})\backslash approx\; 141.588\backslash ,659\backslash ,146\backslash ,23^\{\backslash circ\}$. Each face has four long and two short edges. The ratio between the edge lengths is

:$1/2\; +1/2\backslash times\backslash sqrt\{(1-\backslash xi)/(\backslash phi^\{3\}-\backslash xi)\}\backslash approx\; 0.777\backslash ,024\backslash ,337\backslash ,46$.

The dihedral angle equals $\backslash arccos(\backslash xi/(1+\backslash xi))\backslash approx\; 139.893\backslash ,813\backslash ,264\backslash ,51^\{\backslash circ\}$.

Disregarding self-intersecting surfaces, the small hexagonal hexecontahedron can be constructed as a Kleetope of a pentakis dodecahedron. It is therefore a second order Kleetope of the regular dodecahedron. In other words, by adding a shallow pentagonal pyramid to each face of a regular dodecahedron, we get a pentakis dodecahedron. By adding an even shallower triangular pyramid to each face of the pentakis dodecahedron, we get a small hexagonal hexecontahedron.

The 60 vertices of degree 3 correspond to the apex vertex of each triangular pyramid of the Kleetope, or to each face of the pentakis dodecahedron. The 20 vertices of degree 12 and 12 vertices of degree 10 correspond to the vertices of the pentakis dodecahedron, and also respectively to the 20 hexagons and 12 pentagons of the truncated icosahedron, the dual solid to the pentakis dodecahedron.

• {{Citation | last1=Wenninger | first1=Magnus | author1-link=Magnus Wenninger | title=Dual Models | publisher=Cambridge University Press | isbn=978-0-521-54325-5 |mr=730208 | year=1983}}

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Category:Dual uniform polyhedra

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