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Icosahedron

A regular icosahedron is one of the Platonic solids having 20 equilateral triangular faces.

The volume V of the icosahedron is given by

its surface S is defined by


The radii of the circumscribed (rc) and inscribed (ri) spheres are

= a0.951056516295153572116439...,
and
= a0.75576131407617073048013...

Last Update: 2007-Sep-03