Talk:5-polytope
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I started this as a framework for expansion in enumerating known polytopes of varied dimensions, but I'm unsure how much I can get done in 5 days! I can move it to a user subpage until I've got it fleshed out if that is better. Tom Ruen 19:10, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
- My major concern is that "Polyteron" and friends don't appear in any reliable sources I find find. If they're neologisms being promoted only through a few personal webpages on the Internet, we don't need to repeat them! Melchoir 19:43, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
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- I made parallel pages like 5-polytope as redirects. I can move the content to those pages instead and reference objects with ugly names like hexa-5-tope over hexateron. I figured a systematic scheme used by actual researchers into these forms is worth something. So if Norman Johnson finally gets his book Uniform Polytopes published using these terms, then all is well? Tom Ruen 19:57, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
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- Well, if the existing literature uses ugly names (and agreed, they're ugly names), we ought to be using the same ugly names. If a published source arises, like Johnson, then of course we can choose to follow it. Melchoir 20:32, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Definition
I copied the definition section from polychoron, upgrading the dimensions.
I'm not sure I'm content with #2: Adjacent hypercells are not in the same four-dimensional hyperplane.
Perhaps this criterion is a way to separate polytopes from tilings. It may be a definition for a convex polytope, but not a general polytope!
I'll put a note in talk for polychoron as well. Tom Ruen 01:11, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
