Cube Cube In geometry, a cube is a three-dimensional solid object bounded by six square faces, facets or sides, with three meeting at each vertex. The cube is the only regular hexahedron and is one of the five Platonic solids. It has 6 faces, 12 edges, and 8 vertices. The cube is also a square parallelepiped, an equilateral cuboid and a right rhombohedron. It is a regular square prism in three orientations, and a trigonal trapezohedron in four orientations. The cube is dual to the octahedron. It has cubical or octahedral symmetry. The cube is the only convex polyhedron whose faces
Centered cube number Centered cube number A centered cube number is a centered figurate number that counts the number of points in a three-dimensional pattern formed by a point surrounded by concentric cubical layers of points, with "i" points on the square faces of the "i"-th layer. Equivalently, it is the number of points in a body-centered cubic pattern within a cube that has "n" + 1 points along each of its edges. The first few centered cube numbers are The centered cube number for a pattern with "n" concentric layers around the central point is given by the formula The same number