[lojban] Re: regular polyhedrons

[Robin Lee Powell <lojban-out@lojban.org>]

On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 01:58:47AM -0400, xahlee.org wrote:
> a friend wanted to know how to say "great dodecahedron" in lojban.
> 
> So, how does one say the five regular solids?
> 
> tetrahedron
> cube/hexahedron
> octahedron
> dodecahedron
> icosahedron

The standard trick, IIRC, is to do things like vonkubli, which would
have the place structure:

x1 is a four-sided polygon of dimensions x2 (def. 3)

However, for what you want vonynickubli is better:

x1 is a four-sided polygon of dimensions x2 (def. 3) with regularity
property x3 (def. all sides same length, all angles equal)

That's just off the top of my head, though.

-Robin

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