hexacosichoron
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English
Etymology
From hexacosi- (“six hundred”) + -choron (“room”), from Ancient Greek ἑξακόσιοι (hexakósioi, “six hundred”) and χώρος (khṓros, “room”).
Pronunciation
Noun
hexacosichoron (plural hexacosichorons or hexacosichora)
- (mathematics) A four-dimensional object analogous to an icosahedron, constructed out of six hundred tetrahedra, arranged 20 to a vertex.
- 2011. Artur E. Ruuge, review MR2594002 (2011d:81017) of Waegell, Mordecai and Aravind, P. K., "Critical noncolorings of the 600-cell proving the Bell-Kochen-Specker theorem.", Journal of Physics A 43 (2010), no. 10, 105304
- The present paper deals with a collection of 60 rays in a 4-dimensional real vector space represented by the vertices of a hexacosichoron (i.e. a 4-dimensional analogue of the icosahedron).
- Comment: the reviewer uses the word, the reviewed paper uses 600-cell only.
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Translations
four-dimensional object
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