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A portion of a wooden cube is sawed off at each vertex so that a small equilateral triangle is formed at each corner with vertices on the edges of the cube. The $24$ vertices of the new object are all connected to each other by straight lines. How many of these lines (with the exception, of course, of their end-points) lie entirely in the interior of the original cube?
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A portion of a wooden cube is sawed off at each vertex so that a small equilateral triangle is formed at each corner with vertices on the edges of the cube. The $24$ vertices of the new object are all connected to each other by straight lines. How many of these lines (with the exception, of course, of their end-points) lie entirely in the interior of the original cube?
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A portion of a wooden cube is sawed off at each vertex so that a small equilateral triangle is formed at each corner with vertices on the edges of the cube. The $24$ vertices of the new object are all connected to each other by straight lines. How many of these lines (with the exception, of course, of their end-points) lie entirely in the interior of the original cube?
combinatorics geometry
edited Mar 14 at 13:48
Parcly Taxel
44.7k1376110
asked Mar 14 at 13:35
Mittal GMittal G
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A portion of a wooden cube is sawed off at each vertex so that a small equilateral triangle is formed at each corner with vertices on the edges of the cube. The $24$ vertices of the new object are all connected to each other by straight lines. How many of these lines (with the exception, of course, of their end-points) lie entirely in the interior of the original cube?
combinatorics geometry
combinatorics geometry
edited Mar 14 at 13:48
Parcly Taxel
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asked Mar 14 at 13:35
Mittal GMittal G
1,379516
edited Mar 14 at 13:48
Parcly Taxel
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Mittal GMittal G
1,379516
edited Mar 14 at 13:48
Parcly Taxel
44.7k1376110
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Parcly Taxel
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Parcly Taxel
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asked Mar 14 at 13:35
Mittal GMittal G
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asked Mar 14 at 13:35
Mittal GMittal G
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Alternatively, consider four-storey building with $8,4,4,8$ points labeled $1$ through $24$:
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First floor: Number $1$ can connect with none on the first floor. $1$ can connect with ${11,12}$ on the second floor, with ${15,16}$ on the third floor and with ${19,20,21,22,23,24}$ on the fourth floor. So, $1$ can connect with $2+2+6=10$ points, so does each of $2-8$, hence: $8cdot 10=color{red}{80}$.
Second floor: Number $9$ can connect with none on the first floor. $9$ can connect with ${11}$ on the second floor, so does $10$ with $12$. Hence: $color{red}{2}$ connections on the second floor only. $9$ can connect with ${15}$ on the third floor and with ${19,20,21,22}$ on the fourth floor. So, $9$ can connect with $1+4=5$ points on the third and fourth floors, so does each each of ${10,11,12}$, hence: $4cdot 5=color{red}{20}$. Overall, $color{red}{22}$ connections.
Third floor: $13$ can connect with none on the first or second floor. $13$ can connect with ${15}$ on the third floor, so does $14$ with $16$, hence $color{red}{2}$ connections on the third floor only. $13$ can connect with ${19,20,21,22}$ on the fourth floor. So, $13$ can connect with $4$ points on the fourth floor, so does each of ${14,15,16}$, hence: $4cdot 4=color{red}{16}$. Overall, $color{red}{18}$ connections.
Fourth floor: $17$ can connect with none on the first, second, third or fourth floor. So does each other on the fourth floor.
Hence, the number of inner connections is: $color{red}{80}+color{red}{22}+color{red}{18}=120$.
answered Mar 14 at 16:20
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now it is fixed.
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Another way of looking at it: since the symmetry group of the truncated cube lets you rotate any vertex on to any other vertex, once you count how many connections a single one can make (10), you can multiply that by 24 to get the number of directed connections, then divide by two because that figure counts each connection twice (once in each direction), and you get the same answer of 120. I don't know if this would be independent enough to make a good separate answer.
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David Z, I assume that is what Parcly Taxel did after finding the number of inner connections. I just wanted to see through all inner connections from different perspectives. Cheers.
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In the resulting truncated cube, each vertex $v$ is incident to one triangle and two octagons, which together have $3+8+8-3-3=13$ vertices between them excluding $v$. Lines from $v$ to these $13$ vertices will not be completely in the cube; lines to the other $24-13-1=10$ vertices will. Since each connecting line is incident to two vertices, there are $frac{24cdot10}2=120$ interior lines.
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+1 IMHO the most natural answer (also quickest, also least prone to counting error) since every vertex is the same.
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– antkam
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One triangle and two octagons. Given this mistake, can you please explain your $3+8+8-3-3$? It gets the right answer, but it looks like sheer luck...
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– TonyK
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@TonyK It's a typo, that's all!
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Every one of them that does not run along a face.
Each octahedral face of the object, of which there are $6,$ contains $8$ vertices, so there are $6{8 choose 2}=168$ segments along those faces. The segments that are part of the $12$ original edges of the cube are counted twice, so we subtract $12$, leaving $156$ segments on the octagonal faces of the object.
The triangular faces have segments running along them, but we have already counted those because they also run along an octahedral face. There are ${24 choose 2}=276$ line segments, so there are $276-156=120$ running through the body of the object.
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You're double-counting octagon-octagon edges.
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@ParclyTaxel: Good point. Fixed. Thanks.
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Alternatively, consider four-storey building with $8,4,4,8$ points labeled $1$ through $24$:
$hspace{3cm}$
First floor: Number $1$ can connect with none on the first floor. $1$ can connect with ${11,12}$ on the second floor, with ${15,16}$ on the third floor and with ${19,20,21,22,23,24}$ on the fourth floor. So, $1$ can connect with $2+2+6=10$ points, so does each of $2-8$, hence: $8cdot 10=color{red}{80}$.
Second floor: Number $9$ can connect with none on the first floor. $9$ can connect with ${11}$ on the second floor, so does $10$ with $12$. Hence: $color{red}{2}$ connections on the second floor only. $9$ can connect with ${15}$ on the third floor and with ${19,20,21,22}$ on the fourth floor. So, $9$ can connect with $1+4=5$ points on the third and fourth floors, so does each each of ${10,11,12}$, hence: $4cdot 5=color{red}{20}$. Overall, $color{red}{22}$ connections.
Third floor: $13$ can connect with none on the first or second floor. $13$ can connect with ${15}$ on the third floor, so does $14$ with $16$, hence $color{red}{2}$ connections on the third floor only. $13$ can connect with ${19,20,21,22}$ on the fourth floor. So, $13$ can connect with $4$ points on the fourth floor, so does each of ${14,15,16}$, hence: $4cdot 4=color{red}{16}$. Overall, $color{red}{18}$ connections.
Fourth floor: $17$ can connect with none on the first, second, third or fourth floor. So does each other on the fourth floor.
Hence, the number of inner connections is: $color{red}{80}+color{red}{22}+color{red}{18}=120$.
answered Mar 14 at 16:20
farruhotafarruhota
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something is missing, let me double check
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– farruhota
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now it is fixed.
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– farruhota
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Another way of looking at it: since the symmetry group of the truncated cube lets you rotate any vertex on to any other vertex, once you count how many connections a single one can make (10), you can multiply that by 24 to get the number of directed connections, then divide by two because that figure counts each connection twice (once in each direction), and you get the same answer of 120. I don't know if this would be independent enough to make a good separate answer.
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– David Z
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David Z, I assume that is what Parcly Taxel did after finding the number of inner connections. I just wanted to see through all inner connections from different perspectives. Cheers.
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– farruhota
Mar 14 at 19:34
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Alternatively, consider four-storey building with $8,4,4,8$ points labeled $1$ through $24$:
$hspace{3cm}$
First floor: Number $1$ can connect with none on the first floor. $1$ can connect with ${11,12}$ on the second floor, with ${15,16}$ on the third floor and with ${19,20,21,22,23,24}$ on the fourth floor. So, $1$ can connect with $2+2+6=10$ points, so does each of $2-8$, hence: $8cdot 10=color{red}{80}$.
Second floor: Number $9$ can connect with none on the first floor. $9$ can connect with ${11}$ on the second floor, so does $10$ with $12$. Hence: $color{red}{2}$ connections on the second floor only. $9$ can connect with ${15}$ on the third floor and with ${19,20,21,22}$ on the fourth floor. So, $9$ can connect with $1+4=5$ points on the third and fourth floors, so does each each of ${10,11,12}$, hence: $4cdot 5=color{red}{20}$. Overall, $color{red}{22}$ connections.
Third floor: $13$ can connect with none on the first or second floor. $13$ can connect with ${15}$ on the third floor, so does $14$ with $16$, hence $color{red}{2}$ connections on the third floor only. $13$ can connect with ${19,20,21,22}$ on the fourth floor. So, $13$ can connect with $4$ points on the fourth floor, so does each of ${14,15,16}$, hence: $4cdot 4=color{red}{16}$. Overall, $color{red}{18}$ connections.
Fourth floor: $17$ can connect with none on the first, second, third or fourth floor. So does each other on the fourth floor.
Hence, the number of inner connections is: $color{red}{80}+color{red}{22}+color{red}{18}=120$.
answered Mar 14 at 16:20
farruhotafarruhota
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something is missing, let me double check
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– farruhota
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now it is fixed.
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– farruhota
Mar 14 at 16:36
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Another way of looking at it: since the symmetry group of the truncated cube lets you rotate any vertex on to any other vertex, once you count how many connections a single one can make (10), you can multiply that by 24 to get the number of directed connections, then divide by two because that figure counts each connection twice (once in each direction), and you get the same answer of 120. I don't know if this would be independent enough to make a good separate answer.
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– David Z
Mar 14 at 19:10
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David Z, I assume that is what Parcly Taxel did after finding the number of inner connections. I just wanted to see through all inner connections from different perspectives. Cheers.
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– farruhota
Mar 14 at 19:34
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Alternatively, consider four-storey building with $8,4,4,8$ points labeled $1$ through $24$:
$hspace{3cm}$
First floor: Number $1$ can connect with none on the first floor. $1$ can connect with ${11,12}$ on the second floor, with ${15,16}$ on the third floor and with ${19,20,21,22,23,24}$ on the fourth floor. So, $1$ can connect with $2+2+6=10$ points, so does each of $2-8$, hence: $8cdot 10=color{red}{80}$.
Second floor: Number $9$ can connect with none on the first floor. $9$ can connect with ${11}$ on the second floor, so does $10$ with $12$. Hence: $color{red}{2}$ connections on the second floor only. $9$ can connect with ${15}$ on the third floor and with ${19,20,21,22}$ on the fourth floor. So, $9$ can connect with $1+4=5$ points on the third and fourth floors, so does each each of ${10,11,12}$, hence: $4cdot 5=color{red}{20}$. Overall, $color{red}{22}$ connections.
Third floor: $13$ can connect with none on the first or second floor. $13$ can connect with ${15}$ on the third floor, so does $14$ with $16$, hence $color{red}{2}$ connections on the third floor only. $13$ can connect with ${19,20,21,22}$ on the fourth floor. So, $13$ can connect with $4$ points on the fourth floor, so does each of ${14,15,16}$, hence: $4cdot 4=color{red}{16}$. Overall, $color{red}{18}$ connections.
Fourth floor: $17$ can connect with none on the first, second, third or fourth floor. So does each other on the fourth floor.
Hence, the number of inner connections is: $color{red}{80}+color{red}{22}+color{red}{18}=120$.
answered Mar 14 at 16:20
farruhotafarruhota
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Alternatively, consider four-storey building with $8,4,4,8$ points labeled $1$ through $24$:
$hspace{3cm}$
First floor: Number $1$ can connect with none on the first floor. $1$ can connect with ${11,12}$ on the second floor, with ${15,16}$ on the third floor and with ${19,20,21,22,23,24}$ on the fourth floor. So, $1$ can connect with $2+2+6=10$ points, so does each of $2-8$, hence: $8cdot 10=color{red}{80}$.
Second floor: Number $9$ can connect with none on the first floor. $9$ can connect with ${11}$ on the second floor, so does $10$ with $12$. Hence: $color{red}{2}$ connections on the second floor only. $9$ can connect with ${15}$ on the third floor and with ${19,20,21,22}$ on the fourth floor. So, $9$ can connect with $1+4=5$ points on the third and fourth floors, so does each each of ${10,11,12}$, hence: $4cdot 5=color{red}{20}$. Overall, $color{red}{22}$ connections.
Third floor: $13$ can connect with none on the first or second floor. $13$ can connect with ${15}$ on the third floor, so does $14$ with $16$, hence $color{red}{2}$ connections on the third floor only. $13$ can connect with ${19,20,21,22}$ on the fourth floor. So, $13$ can connect with $4$ points on the fourth floor, so does each of ${14,15,16}$, hence: $4cdot 4=color{red}{16}$. Overall, $color{red}{18}$ connections.
Fourth floor: $17$ can connect with none on the first, second, third or fourth floor. So does each other on the fourth floor.
Hence, the number of inner connections is: $color{red}{80}+color{red}{22}+color{red}{18}=120$.
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answered Mar 14 at 16:20
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something is missing, let me double check
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– farruhota
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now it is fixed.
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– farruhota
Mar 14 at 16:36
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Another way of looking at it: since the symmetry group of the truncated cube lets you rotate any vertex on to any other vertex, once you count how many connections a single one can make (10), you can multiply that by 24 to get the number of directed connections, then divide by two because that figure counts each connection twice (once in each direction), and you get the same answer of 120. I don't know if this would be independent enough to make a good separate answer.
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– David Z
Mar 14 at 19:10
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David Z, I assume that is what Parcly Taxel did after finding the number of inner connections. I just wanted to see through all inner connections from different perspectives. Cheers.
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– farruhota
Mar 14 at 19:34
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something is missing, let me double check
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– farruhota
Mar 14 at 16:24
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now it is fixed.
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– farruhota
Mar 14 at 16:36
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Another way of looking at it: since the symmetry group of the truncated cube lets you rotate any vertex on to any other vertex, once you count how many connections a single one can make (10), you can multiply that by 24 to get the number of directed connections, then divide by two because that figure counts each connection twice (once in each direction), and you get the same answer of 120. I don't know if this would be independent enough to make a good separate answer.
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– David Z
Mar 14 at 19:10
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David Z, I assume that is what Parcly Taxel did after finding the number of inner connections. I just wanted to see through all inner connections from different perspectives. Cheers.
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– farruhota
Mar 14 at 19:34
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something is missing, let me double check
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– farruhota
Mar 14 at 16:24
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something is missing, let me double check
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– farruhota
Mar 14 at 16:24
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now it is fixed.
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– farruhota
Mar 14 at 16:36
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now it is fixed.
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– farruhota
Mar 14 at 16:36
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Another way of looking at it: since the symmetry group of the truncated cube lets you rotate any vertex on to any other vertex, once you count how many connections a single one can make (10), you can multiply that by 24 to get the number of directed connections, then divide by two because that figure counts each connection twice (once in each direction), and you get the same answer of 120. I don't know if this would be independent enough to make a good separate answer.
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– David Z
Mar 14 at 19:10
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Another way of looking at it: since the symmetry group of the truncated cube lets you rotate any vertex on to any other vertex, once you count how many connections a single one can make (10), you can multiply that by 24 to get the number of directed connections, then divide by two because that figure counts each connection twice (once in each direction), and you get the same answer of 120. I don't know if this would be independent enough to make a good separate answer.
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– David Z
Mar 14 at 19:10
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David Z, I assume that is what Parcly Taxel did after finding the number of inner connections. I just wanted to see through all inner connections from different perspectives. Cheers.
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– farruhota
Mar 14 at 19:34
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David Z, I assume that is what Parcly Taxel did after finding the number of inner connections. I just wanted to see through all inner connections from different perspectives. Cheers.
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– farruhota
Mar 14 at 19:34
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In the resulting truncated cube, each vertex $v$ is incident to one triangle and two octagons, which together have $3+8+8-3-3=13$ vertices between them excluding $v$. Lines from $v$ to these $13$ vertices will not be completely in the cube; lines to the other $24-13-1=10$ vertices will. Since each connecting line is incident to two vertices, there are $frac{24cdot10}2=120$ interior lines.
answered Mar 14 at 13:42
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+1 IMHO the most natural answer (also quickest, also least prone to counting error) since every vertex is the same.
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– antkam
Mar 14 at 18:21
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One triangle and two octagons. Given this mistake, can you please explain your $3+8+8-3-3$? It gets the right answer, but it looks like sheer luck...
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– TonyK
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@TonyK It's a typo, that's all!
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In the resulting truncated cube, each vertex $v$ is incident to one triangle and two octagons, which together have $3+8+8-3-3=13$ vertices between them excluding $v$. Lines from $v$ to these $13$ vertices will not be completely in the cube; lines to the other $24-13-1=10$ vertices will. Since each connecting line is incident to two vertices, there are $frac{24cdot10}2=120$ interior lines.
answered Mar 14 at 13:42
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+1 IMHO the most natural answer (also quickest, also least prone to counting error) since every vertex is the same.
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– antkam
Mar 14 at 18:21
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One triangle and two octagons. Given this mistake, can you please explain your $3+8+8-3-3$? It gets the right answer, but it looks like sheer luck...
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– TonyK
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@TonyK It's a typo, that's all!
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– Parcly Taxel
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In the resulting truncated cube, each vertex $v$ is incident to one triangle and two octagons, which together have $3+8+8-3-3=13$ vertices between them excluding $v$. Lines from $v$ to these $13$ vertices will not be completely in the cube; lines to the other $24-13-1=10$ vertices will. Since each connecting line is incident to two vertices, there are $frac{24cdot10}2=120$ interior lines.
answered Mar 14 at 13:42
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In the resulting truncated cube, each vertex $v$ is incident to one triangle and two octagons, which together have $3+8+8-3-3=13$ vertices between them excluding $v$. Lines from $v$ to these $13$ vertices will not be completely in the cube; lines to the other $24-13-1=10$ vertices will. Since each connecting line is incident to two vertices, there are $frac{24cdot10}2=120$ interior lines.
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+1 IMHO the most natural answer (also quickest, also least prone to counting error) since every vertex is the same.
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– antkam
Mar 14 at 18:21
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One triangle and two octagons. Given this mistake, can you please explain your $3+8+8-3-3$? It gets the right answer, but it looks like sheer luck...
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– TonyK
Mar 14 at 18:31
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@TonyK It's a typo, that's all!
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– Parcly Taxel
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+1 IMHO the most natural answer (also quickest, also least prone to counting error) since every vertex is the same.
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– antkam
Mar 14 at 18:21
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One triangle and two octagons. Given this mistake, can you please explain your $3+8+8-3-3$? It gets the right answer, but it looks like sheer luck...
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– TonyK
Mar 14 at 18:31
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@TonyK It's a typo, that's all!
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– Parcly Taxel
Mar 15 at 1:02
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+1 IMHO the most natural answer (also quickest, also least prone to counting error) since every vertex is the same.
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– antkam
Mar 14 at 18:21
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+1 IMHO the most natural answer (also quickest, also least prone to counting error) since every vertex is the same.
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– antkam
Mar 14 at 18:21
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One triangle and two octagons. Given this mistake, can you please explain your $3+8+8-3-3$? It gets the right answer, but it looks like sheer luck...
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– TonyK
Mar 14 at 18:31
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One triangle and two octagons. Given this mistake, can you please explain your $3+8+8-3-3$? It gets the right answer, but it looks like sheer luck...
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– TonyK
Mar 14 at 18:31
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@TonyK It's a typo, that's all!
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– Parcly Taxel
Mar 15 at 1:02
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@TonyK It's a typo, that's all!
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Every one of them that does not run along a face.
Each octahedral face of the object, of which there are $6,$ contains $8$ vertices, so there are $6{8 choose 2}=168$ segments along those faces. The segments that are part of the $12$ original edges of the cube are counted twice, so we subtract $12$, leaving $156$ segments on the octagonal faces of the object.
The triangular faces have segments running along them, but we have already counted those because they also run along an octahedral face. There are ${24 choose 2}=276$ line segments, so there are $276-156=120$ running through the body of the object.
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You're double-counting octagon-octagon edges.
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– Parcly Taxel
Mar 14 at 13:42
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@ParclyTaxel: Good point. Fixed. Thanks.
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– Ross Millikan
Mar 14 at 13:45
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Every one of them that does not run along a face.
Each octahedral face of the object, of which there are $6,$ contains $8$ vertices, so there are $6{8 choose 2}=168$ segments along those faces. The segments that are part of the $12$ original edges of the cube are counted twice, so we subtract $12$, leaving $156$ segments on the octagonal faces of the object.
The triangular faces have segments running along them, but we have already counted those because they also run along an octahedral face. There are ${24 choose 2}=276$ line segments, so there are $276-156=120$ running through the body of the object.
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You're double-counting octagon-octagon edges.
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– Parcly Taxel
Mar 14 at 13:42
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@ParclyTaxel: Good point. Fixed. Thanks.
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– Ross Millikan
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Every one of them that does not run along a face.
Each octahedral face of the object, of which there are $6,$ contains $8$ vertices, so there are $6{8 choose 2}=168$ segments along those faces. The segments that are part of the $12$ original edges of the cube are counted twice, so we subtract $12$, leaving $156$ segments on the octagonal faces of the object.
The triangular faces have segments running along them, but we have already counted those because they also run along an octahedral face. There are ${24 choose 2}=276$ line segments, so there are $276-156=120$ running through the body of the object.
answered Mar 14 at 13:40
Ross MillikanRoss Millikan
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Every one of them that does not run along a face.
Each octahedral face of the object, of which there are $6,$ contains $8$ vertices, so there are $6{8 choose 2}=168$ segments along those faces. The segments that are part of the $12$ original edges of the cube are counted twice, so we subtract $12$, leaving $156$ segments on the octagonal faces of the object.
The triangular faces have segments running along them, but we have already counted those because they also run along an octahedral face. There are ${24 choose 2}=276$ line segments, so there are $276-156=120$ running through the body of the object.
answered Mar 14 at 13:40
Ross MillikanRoss Millikan
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answered Mar 14 at 13:40
Ross MillikanRoss Millikan
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answered Mar 14 at 13:40
Ross MillikanRoss Millikan
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answered Mar 14 at 13:40
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You're double-counting octagon-octagon edges.
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– Parcly Taxel
Mar 14 at 13:42
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@ParclyTaxel: Good point. Fixed. Thanks.
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– Ross Millikan
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You're double-counting octagon-octagon edges.
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– Parcly Taxel
Mar 14 at 13:42
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@ParclyTaxel: Good point. Fixed. Thanks.
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– Ross Millikan
Mar 14 at 13:45
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You're double-counting octagon-octagon edges.
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– Parcly Taxel
Mar 14 at 13:42
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You're double-counting octagon-octagon edges.
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– Parcly Taxel
Mar 14 at 13:42
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@ParclyTaxel: Good point. Fixed. Thanks.
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– Ross Millikan
Mar 14 at 13:45
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@ParclyTaxel: Good point. Fixed. Thanks.
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– Ross Millikan
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This is an interesting puzzle. Where does it come from? is this a homework exercise? in what class? What motivates the problem? why are you interested in it? and why should we be interested in it? At the very least, please indicate what you have attempted to do, and perhaps explain what tools (theorems, definitions, etc) you have access to.
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