In geometry, a dodecahedral prism is a convex uniform polychoron (four dimensional polytope). This polychoron has 14 polyhedral cells: 2 dodecahedra connected by 12 pentagonal prisms. It has 54 faces: 30 squares and 24 pentagons. It has 80 edges and 40 vertices.
It can be constructed by creating two coinciding dodecahedra in 3-space, and translating each copy in opposite perpendicular directions in 4-space until their separation equals their edge length.
Alternative names:
- Dodecahedral dyadic prism Norman W. Johnson
- Dope (for dodecahedral prism) Jonathan Bowers
- Dodecahedral hyperprism
It is one of 18 convex uniform polyhedral prisms created by using uniform prisms to connect pairs of parallel Platonic solids or Archimedean solids.
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