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unusual facts about semiregular polytope



5 21 honeycomb

The 521 is seventh in a dimensional series of semiregular polytopes, identified in 1900 by Thorold Gosset.

E9 honeycomb

The 621 is last in a dimensional series of semiregular polytopes and honeycombs, identified in 1900 by Thorold Gosset.


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Semiregular polyhedron

In its original definition, it is a polyhedron with regular faces and a symmetry group which is transitive on its vertices, which is more commonly referred to today as a uniform polyhedron (this follows from Thorold Gosset's 1900 definition of the more general semiregular polytope).