English Dictionary

Schläfli symbol

noun

(geometry) A notation that recursively encodes certain properties of a specified regular polytope or tessellation.

The Schläfli symbol of a regular tetrahedron is {3,3}.

意味（1）

(geometry) A notation that recursively encodes certain properties of a specified regular polytope or tessellation.

The three-dimensional regular polytopes (Platonic solids) have the following Schläfli symbols: the tetrahedron — {3, 3}, the cube — {4, 3}, the octahedron — {3, 4} — the dodecahedron — {5, 3}, and the icosahedron — {3, 5}.