16-cell

Four-dimensional analog of the octahedron
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16-cell

Summary

16-cell is a convex regular polychoron[1]. 16-cell draws 114 Wikipedia views per month (convex_regular_polychoron category, ranking #1 of 1).[2]

Key Facts

  • 16-cell's image is recorded as 16-cell.gif[3].
  • 16-cell's image is recorded as Schlegel wireframe 16-cell.png[4].
  • 16-cell's image is recorded as 4-orthoplex.svg[5].
  • 16-cell's instance of is recorded as convex regular polychoron[6].
  • 16-cell's subclass of is recorded as cross-polytope[7].
  • 16-cell's subclass of is recorded as convex regular polychoron[8].
  • 16-cell's subclass of is recorded as demihypercube[9].
  • 16-cell's subclass of is recorded as alternation[10].
  • 16-cell's Commons category is recorded as 16-cell[11].
  • 16-cell's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0359jz[12].
  • 16-cell's has facet polytope is recorded as regular tetrahedron[13].
  • 16-cell's dual to is recorded as tesseract[14].
  • 16-cell's has vertex figure is recorded as regular octahedron[15].
  • 16-cell's has part is recorded as vertex[16].
  • 16-cell's has part is recorded as edge[17].
  • 16-cell's has part is recorded as face[18].
  • 16-cell's has part is recorded as cell[19].
  • 16-cell's MathWorld ID is recorded as 16-Cell[20].
  • 16-cell's Schläfli symbol is recorded as {3,3,4}[21].
  • 16-cell's 3D model is recorded as 16-cell cell-first perspective projection.stl[22].
  • 16-cell's maintained by WikiProject is recorded as WikiProject Mathematics[23].
  • 16-cell's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 23712438[24].
  • 16-cell's Bowers acronym is recorded as hex[25].

Why It Matters

16-cell draws 114 Wikipedia views per month (convex_regular_polychoron category, ranking #1 of 1).[2] 16-cell has Wikipedia articles in 13 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[26] 16-cell is known by 22 alternative names across languages and contexts.[27]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . bendwavy.org. bendwavy.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [26] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [27] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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