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twelve pentagons agreeing to disagree with every other shape's right angles.
means A three-dimensional solid with twelve flat faces, each a regular pentagon, meeting at twenty vertices.
from Straight from Greek: dōdeka, "twelve," plus hedra, "seat" or "base" — the same hedra that gives a chair its sitting-place and a polyhedron its many faces. So a dodecahedron is literally a "twelve-seated" thing, twelve faces each resting flat like a place at a table. The Greeks loved their solids; Plato famously assigned the dodecahedron to the cosmos itself, the shape of the heavens.
- face count
- twelve identical regular pentagons, no exceptions
- plato's pick
- he assigned it to the cosmos itself
- roman mystery
- bronze ones found, purpose still totally unknown
- d12 fame
- the dice rolled for damage and spells
- vertex math
- twenty corners, thirty edges, perfectly balanced
platonic solids — one of five regular polyhedra with 12 pentagonal faces, known since ancient greece
menger sponge iterations — fractal structure that can be constructed using dodecahedra as building blocks