Re: Geometrical shape

In message <p01pi.669$rr5.434@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Brian Reay <see@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
"Dr A. N. Walker" <anw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <boo8a3laeq330ar98eqv4qvqlp628c8o2h@xxxxxxx>,
Ahoyhoy <ahoyhoy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 02:20:09 +0200, pictorNOSPAM@xxxxxx (Marcus
Marcusson) wrote:
What's the English name of the 26-side ball-shape of the point leveler
weight on the picture? In Swedish it's evidently "rombkuboktaeder"...
http://www.abc.se/home/m10901/RAIL/osj_klot.html
That would be a rhombicuboctahedron.

Yes, but what's that in English? [:-)]

I know it as a cantellated cube.

Brian


Cundy and Rollett call it a (small) rhombicuboctahedron: page 105 in Mathematical Models (OUP 2nd Edition 1961).

Simon
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Simon Rayner
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