A Polyhedron is a solid figure bounded by polygons (not necessarily all the same).

A dodecahedron is a 12-sided polyhedron bounded by pentagons.


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You may wish to analyse the sixteenth stellation of the icosahedron to determine how many triangles form its bounding surface.


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