Polyhedron with twenty faces.
Properties
- A regular icosahedron is a Platonic solid. It is made up of 20 congruent equilateral triangles.
- Therefore, it has 20 faces, 12 vertices and 30 edges.
- Five faces meet at each vertex.
- Its area A and its volume V can be calculated as a function of its edge length a:
\(A=5\sqrt{3}a^{2}\)
\(V=\frac{5\sqrt{14+6\sqrt{5}}}{12}a^{3}\)
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