Regular dodecahedron whereas a regular icosahedron has 20 faces and 12 vertices. Both have 30 edges. A cube can be embedded within a regular dodecahedron, affixed to eight of its equidistant vertices, in five different positions. In fact, five cubes may overlap and interlock inside the regular dodecahedron to result in the compound of five cubes. The ratio of the edge of a regular dodecahedron to the edge of a cube embedded inside such a regular dodecahedron is 1 : "ϕ", or ("ϕ" − 1) : 1. The ratio of a regular dodecahedron's volume to the volume of a cube embedded inside
Regular dodecahedron faces) is while the midradius, which touches the middle of each edge, is These quantities may also be expressed as where "ϕ" is the golden ratio. Note that, given a regular dodecahedron of edge length one, "r" is the radius of a circumscribing sphere about a cube of edge length "ϕ", and "r" is the apothem of a regular pentagon of edge length "ϕ". The surface area "A" and the volume "V" of a regular dodecahedron of edge length "a" are: Additionally, the surface area and volume of a regular dodecahedron are related to the golden ratio. A dodecahedron with