Welcome to the Guess My Word blog. This is a place to discuss the words of the day chosen by Joon and Mike. This paragraph is here mostly as spoiler space. Here are today's words:
you can have a heptahedron, but not a regular one. so what would "heptahedral" mean, specifically? there's no platonic (so to speak) ideal of a heptahedron.
I was disappointed that HEPTAHEDRAL appears not to be on the accepted word list.
ReplyDeleteyou can have a heptahedron, but not a regular one. so what would "heptahedral" mean, specifically? there's no platonic (so to speak) ideal of a heptahedron.
DeleteAccording to Wikionary,
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heptahedral (not comparable)
having seven plane surfaces
And if it is on the Web, it must be true! ;>)
The solid that theoretically would minimally encase the Pentagon is heptahedral, no?
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