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Great dodecahedron

In geometry, the great dodecahedron is a Kepler–Poinsot polyhedron, with Schläfli symbol {5,5/2} and Coxeter–Dynkin diagram of . It is one of four nonconvex regular polyhedra. It is composed of 12 pentagonal faces (six pairs of parallel pentagons), intersecting each other making a pentagrammic path, with five pentagons meeting at each vertex.

The discovery of the great dodecahedron is sometimes credited to Louis Poinsot in 1810, though there is a drawing of something very similar to a great dodecahedron in the 1568 book Perspectiva Corporum Regularium by Wenzel Jamnitzer.


The great dodecahedron can be constructed analogously to the pentagram, its two-dimensional analogue, via the extension of the (n – 1)-pentagonal polytope faces of the core n-polytope (pentagons for the great dodecahedron, and line segments for the pentagram) until the figure again closes.

This shape was the basis for the -like Alexander's Star puzzle.

Rubik's Cube

The great dodecahedron provides an easy mnemonic for the [1]

binary Golay code

Compound of small stellated dodecahedron and great dodecahedron

, "Great dodecahedron" ("Uniform polyhedron") at MathWorld.

Weisstein, Eric W.

Uniform polyhedra and duals

Metal sculpture of Great Dodecahedron