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There are just five regular polyhedra. (See CategoryPolyhedra for a definition of that.)


That's all.

Incidentally, the 2-D equivalent is a polygon, and there are infinitely-many regular polygons, starting with the equilateral triangle. WhatHappensInFourDimensions??
Although only three which tile the plane - which is proved in the same way as there being five Platonic solids.


What's wrong with calling this page PlatonicSolids?
OP didn't know the term?  --Vitenka
Maybe OP is insinuating things about the relationships between them? --MJ (*DAR*)
''I did know of the term, but couldn't remember if PlatonicSolids were these or some other subset of polyhedra. Aren't there solids named after some other GreekBloke?? As for the naming of this page, it was just a reification of what I happened to be writing at the time.
ArchimedeanSolids also exist. They use two regular polygons for faces, but still have the constraint that each vertex of the polyhedron must be equal.


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