Dodecahedron regular dodecahedron but less symmetrical: the pyritohedron with pyritohedral symmetry, and the tetartoid with tetrahedral symmetry: A pyritohedron is a dodecahedron with pyritohedral (T) symmetry. Like the regular dodecahedron, it has twelve identical pentagonal faces, with three meeting in each of the 20 vertices. However, the pentagons are not constrained to be regular, and the underlying atomic arrangement has no true fivefold symmetry axes. Its 30 edges are divided into two sets – containing 24 and 6 edges of the same length. The only axes of rotational symmetry are three mutually perpendicular twofold axes and four threefold axes. Although regular
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