From: John McGowan <jmcgowan@shell.inch.com>
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: Re: Okay, give me a name for this polyhedron...
Date: 24 Apr 1997 20:13:02 GMT

> I would like to know the name of a polyhedron I discovered by accident.
> It has 14 sides - eight equilateral triangles and six squares - and
> twenty-four edges of equal length.

Hmmm... I would guess a cuboctahedron. I haven't checked your web page,
but you can try the KALEIDO programme (all the regular polyhedra,
graphical and numerical information) (the cuboctahedron is number 12 in
the graphical display: use "kaleido -g -s" and press return till you get
to number 12).

       Kaleido   is   available    by    anonymous    ftp    from
       gauss.technion.ac.il  (132.68.112.3).   In addition to the
       source files, one may find there executable files for sev-
       eral  platforms, including MS-DOS Version 5 and UNIX V/386
       Release 4, and an electronic version of the author's paper
       mentioned above.

(check the kaleido directory and also check the kaleido/doc directory for
 the uniform.txt file)

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