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Also known as 3-hypercube, regular hexahedron, 3-cube

objeto sólido tridimensional unido por seis lados

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A cube is a three-dimensional shape made up of six identical square faces connected by twelve equal-length edges, with eight corners where edges meet. Cubes are important in geometry and mathematics because they serve as a fundamental example of a polyhedron and appear frequently in everyday objects, from dice to building blocks.

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Key facts

Polyhedron.name
Cube
Polyhedron.image
File:Cube-h.svg
Polyhedron.type
Hanner polytope,orthogonal polyhedron,parallelohedron,Platonic solid,plesiohedron,regular polyhedron,zonohedron
Polyhedron.faces
6 square
Polyhedron.edges
12
Polyhedron.vertices
8
Polyhedron.euler
2
Polyhedron.vertex_config
8 \times (4^3)
Polyhedron.schläfli
\{4,3\}
Polyhedron.symmetry
octahedral symmetry \mathrm{O}_\mathrm{h}
Polyhedron.dual
regular octahedron
Polyhedron.angle
90°
Polyhedron.properties
convex,edge-transitive,face-transitive,non-composite,orthogonal faces,Rupert property: can pass through a hole with its copy,vertex-transitive
Polyhedron.surface area
6 × side2
Polyhedron.volume
side3

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Wikidata facts

Subclass of
hexahedron
Image
The 11 cubic nets.svg
Has parts of class
face
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depicted by
Portal
has facet polytope
square
Commons category
Cube
topic's main category
Category:Cubes
has characteristic
sphericity
Schläfli symbol
{4,3}
has vertex figure
equilateral triangle
different from
cube number
Conway polyhedron notation
C
on focus list of Wikimedia project
Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Mathematics
invariant under
octahedral symmetry
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Article · Español

Cubo o hexaedro regular es un poliedro limitado por seis caras cuadradas congruentes. Es uno de los denominados sólidos platónicos. Un cubo, además de ser un hexaedro, puede ser clasificado también como paralelepípedo, recto y rectangular, (brevemente ortoedro)​ pues todas sus caras son cuadrados y paralelas dos a dos. Incluso, se puede entender como un prisma recto, cuya base es un cuadrado y su altura equivalente al lado de la base. El hexaedro regular, al igual que el resto de los sólidos platónicos, cumple el teorema de Euler para poliedros, resumido en la fórmula C+V = A+2, pues tiene seis caras, ocho vértices y doce aristas (6+8=12+2).

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