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, the truncated dodecadodecahedron (or stellatruncated dodecadodecahedron) is a

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, indexed as U₅₉. It is given a

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t_0,1,2. It has 54 faces (30

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s, 12

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s, and 12 decagrams), 180 edges, and 120 vertices. The central region of the polyhedron is connected to the exterior via 20 small triangular holes. The name ''truncated dodecadodecahedron'' is somewhat misleading: truncation of the

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would produce rectangular faces rather than squares, and the pentagram faces of the dodecadodecahedron would turn into truncated pentagrams rather than decagrams. However, it is the quasitruncation of the dodecadodecahedron, as defined by . For this reason, it is also known as the quasitruncated dodecadodecahedron. Coxeter et al. credit its discovery to a paper published in 1881 by Austrian mathematician Johann Pitsch.

Cartesian coordinates

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for the vertices of a truncated dodecadodecahedron are all the triples of numbers obtained by circular shifts and sign changes from the following points (where

\tau = \frac

is the

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): :

(1,1,3);\quad
(\frac, \frac, 2\tau);\quad
(\tau, \frac, \tau^2);\quad
(\tau^2, \frac, 2);\quad
(\sqrt,1,\sqrt).

Each of these five points has eight possible sign patterns and three possible circular shifts, giving a total of 120 different points.

As a Cayley graph

The truncated dodecadodecahedron forms a

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for the

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on five elements, as generated by two group members: one that swaps the first two elements of a five-tuple, and one that performs a

circular shift In combinatorial mathematics, a circular shift is the operation of rearranging the entries in a tuple, either by moving the final entry to the first position, while shifting all other entries to the next position, or by performing the inverse op ...

operation on the last four elements. That is, the 120 vertices of the polyhedron may be placed in one-to-one correspondence with the 5!

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on five elements, in such a way that the three neighbors of each vertex are the three permutations formed from it by swapping the first two elements or circularly shifting (in either direction) the last four elements..

Related polyhedra

Medial disdyakis triacontahedron

The medial disdyakis triacontahedron is a nonconvex isohedral

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. It is the

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of the

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truncated dodecadodecahedron.

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