Polytope facts for kids
A polygon is a 2-dimensional polytope. Some polygons of different kinds: open (excluding its boundary), bounding circuit only (ignoring its interior), closed (both), and self-intersecting with varying densities of different regions.
A polytope is figure in geometry. It is a geometric object with flat sides, in any number of dimensions. A polygon is a polytope in two dimensions, a polyhedron in three dimensions, and so on. Sometimes the number of dimensions is shown as a number, as in a polyhedron being a 3-polytope or a tesseract a convex regular 4-polytope.
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The 5-cell (4-simplex) is self-dual with 5 vertices and 5 tetrahedral cells.
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In Spanish: Politopo para niños
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