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After 400 years, mathematicians find a new class of solid shapes
- ColinWright 12y agoQuoting one comment from a previous discussion: It actually looks more like a redefinition than a new discovery: "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 " -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7252187 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7252187 Previous submissions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7349581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7349581 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7267909 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7267909 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7259409 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7259409 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7251805 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7251805 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7244254 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7244254