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in dimension up to 8. In dimension 3 this is due to Conway. In dimension up to 6 this is due to R. J. M. Dawson. Dimensions 7 and 8 were ruled out by R. J. M. Dawson, W. Finbow, and P.
385: 378: 134:(Lángi) There are monostatic polytopes in dimension 3 with k-fold rotational symmetry for an arbitrary positive integer k. 56: 170: 404: 52:. In 2012, Andras Bezdek discovered an 18-face solution, and in 2014, Alex Reshetov published a 14-face object. 371: 332: 93: 131:(Lángi) There are monostatic polytopes in dimension 3 whose shapes are arbitrarily close to a sphere. 114: 81: 66: 409: 222: 37: 310: 206: 110: 49: 48:. The monostatic polytope in 3-space constructed independently by Guy and Knowlton has 19 33: 313: 80:
A polytope is called monostatic if, when filled homogeneously, it is stable on only one
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Z. Lángi, A solution to some problems of Conway and Guy on monostable polyhedra,
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Wolfram Demonstrations Project: Bezdek's Unistable Polyhedron With 18 Faces
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R. J. M. Dawson, W. Finbow, P. Mak, Monostatic simplexes. II.
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which "can stand on only one face". They were described in 1969 by
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International Journal of Computational Geometry & Applications
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H. Croft, K. Falconer, and R. K. Guy, Problem B12 in
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Index

geometry
polytope
J. H. Conway
R. K. Guy
K. C. Knowlton
faces


facet
centroid
center of mass
orthogonal projection
convex polygon
V. Arnold
four-vertex theorem
simplices
Gömböc
Roly-poly toy
"Stability of polyhedra"
"A unistable polyhedron with 14 faces"
doi
10.1142/S0218195914500022
J. H. Conway
R. K. Guy
K. C. Knowlton
Igor Pak
Lectures on Discrete and Polyhedral Geometry
Weisstein, Eric W.
"Unistable polyhedron"
MathWorld

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