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  2. Polyhedron - Wikipedia

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    The tetrahemihexahedron, a non-orientable self-intersecting polyhedron with four triangular faces (red) and three square faces (yellow). As with a Möbius strip or Klein bottle , a continuous path along the surface of this polyhedron can reach the point on the opposite side of the surface from its starting point, making it impossible to ...

  3. Great Pyramid of Giza - Wikipedia

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    The Queen's Chamber is exactly halfway between the north and south faces of the pyramid. It measures 10 cubits (5.2 m; 17.2 ft) north-south, 11 cubits (5.8 m; 18.9 ft) east-west, [175] and has a pointed roof that apexes at 12 cubits (6.3 m; 20.6 ft) tall. [176] At the eastern end of the chamber is a niche 9 cubits (4.7 m; 15.5 ft) high. The ...

  4. Golden ratio - Wikipedia

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    The Great Pyramid of Giza. The Great Pyramid of Giza (also known as the Pyramid of Cheops or Khufu) has been analyzed by pyramidologists as having a doubled Kepler triangle as its cross-section. If this theory were true, the golden ratio would describe the ratio of distances from the midpoint of one of the sides of the pyramid to its apex, and ...

  5. Octahedron - Wikipedia

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    Some of the polyhedrons do have eight faces aside from being square bipyramids in the following: Hexagonal prism: Two faces are parallel regular hexagons; six squares link corresponding pairs of hexagon edges. Heptagonal pyramid: One face is a heptagon (usually regular), and the remaining seven faces are triangles (usually isosceles). All ...

  6. Form (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Forms can have regular shape (stable, usually with an axis or plane of symmetry, like a triangle or pyramid), or irregular; the latter can sometimes be constructed by combining multiple forms (additive forms, composition) or removing one form from another (subtractive forms). [1] Multiple forms can be organized in different ways: [1]

  7. Khufu - Wikipedia

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    The Great Pyramid has a base measurement of ca. 750 x 750 ft (≙ 230.4 x 230.4 m) and today a height of 455.2 ft (138.7 m). Once it had been 481 ft (147 m) high, but the pyramidion and the limestone casing are completely lost due to stone robbery.

  8. Pyramid of Nyuserre - Wikipedia

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    The pyramid has its own enclosure and bears the standard T-shaped substructure of passage and chambers. [5] It had a base length of approximately 15.5 m (51 ft; 29.6 cu) and a peak approximately 10.5 m (34 ft; 20.0 cu) high. [117] The pyramid's single chamber was built by digging a pit into the ground.

  9. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    10 −4: 100 μm: 340 μm Size of a pixel on a 17-inch monitor with a resolution of 1024×768 560 μm Thickness of the central area of a human cornea [26] 750 μm Maximum diameter of Thiomargarita namibiensis, the second largest bacterium ever discovered 10 −3: 1 millimeter ~5 mm Length of an average flea is 1–10 mm (usually <5 mm) [27] 2.54 mm