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The Platonic Solids
In episode two of The Code Marcus du Sautoy takes a look at the Platonic Solids - five perfectly symmetrical solids, central to Greek geometry, that may look familiar to us today - the tetrahedron, the cube, the octahedron, the dodecahedron and the icosahedron.
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