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After 400 years, mathematicians find a new class of solid shapes

4 pointsby thepoetover 10 years ago

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ColinWrightover 10 years ago
Quoting one comment from a previous discussion:<p><pre><code> It actually looks more like a redefinition than a new discovery: &quot;It may be confusing because Goldberg called them polyhedra, a perfectly sensible name to a graph theorist, but to a geometer, polyhedra require planar faces &quot; </code></pre> -- <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7252187" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7252187</a><p>Previous submissions:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7349581" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7349581</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7267909" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7267909</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7259409" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7259409</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7251805" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7251805</a><p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7244254" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=7244254</a>