Other Facts
- An icosahedron has 43,380 distinct nets.
- To color the icosahedron, such that no two adjacent faces have the same color, requires at least 3 colors.
- When an icosahedron is inscribed in a sphere, it occupies less of the sphere's volume (60.54%) than a dodecahedron inscribed in the same sphere (66.49%).
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