An Elementary Calculation of the Dihedral Angle of the Regular n-Simplex

DOI10.2307/3072403MaRDI QIDQ4417770zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Dean C. Wills, Harold Parks

Publication date 29 July 2003

Published in The American Mathematical Monthly (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.2307/3072403

zbMATH Keywords

dihedral angleGosset's theoremregular \(n\)-simplexregular polytope

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20) (n)-dimensional polytopes (52B11)

Review text

The authors give a short and clear proof of the known fact that the dihedral angle (i.e., the angle between two facets) of a regular \(n\)-simplex in Euclidean \(n\)-space equals \(\cos^{-1} ({1\over n})\).

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