Set of regular n-gonal hosohedra | |
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Type | regular polyhedron or spherical tiling |
Faces | n digons |
Edges | n |
Vertices | 2 |
Euler char. | 2 |
Vertex configuration | 2n |
Wythoff symbol | n | 2 2 |
Schläfli symbol | {2,n} |
Coxeter diagram | |
Symmetry group | Dnh [2,n] (*22n) order 4n |
Rotation group | Dn [2,n]+ (22n) order 2n |
Dual polyhedron | regular n-gonal dihedron |
In spherical geometry, an n-gonal hosohedron is a tessellation of lunes on a spherical surface, such that each lune shares the same two polar opposite vertices.
A regular n-gonal hosohedron has Schläfli symbol {2,n}, with each spherical lune having internal angle 2π/nradians (360/n degrees).[1][2]