An asymptotically closed loop of tetrahedra

DOI10.1007/S00283-016-9696-4MaRDI QIDQ1684352zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Michael Elgersma, Stan Wagon

Publication date 8 December 2017

Published in The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-016-9696-4

zbMATH Keywords

continued fractionregular tetrahedronsymmetry planeembedded chain of tetrahedraquadrahelixtetrahelix

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Three-dimensional polytopes (52B10) Polyhedra and polytopes; regular figures, division of spaces (51M20)

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• Mathematica

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