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== Basic Information ==
[[image: Flag map of Switzerland.svg]]
'''Capital City:''' Bern
'''Climate & Terrain:''' Switzerland is a landlocked country that shares a border with the following countries: France, Italy, Austria & Germany. The current climate is temperate, the temperature varies with altitude for the most part they get their mix of rain, snow & warm weather. There are 2 mountain ranges in Switzerland the Alps and the Jura. In addition they have rolling hills, plains and large lakes.
'''Languages:''' Switzerland has 4 official languages German (63.7%), French (20.4%), Italian (6.5%) and Romansch (0.5%). While those are the official languages they are not the only ones spoken. Serbo-Croatian 1.5%, Albanian 1.3%, Portuguese 1.2%, Spanish 1.1%, English 1%, Romansch (official) , other 2.8% (2000 census)
'''Area: 41,277 sq km'''
:Land: 39,997 sq km
:Water: 1,280 sq km
'''Population:''' 7,623,438 (July 2010 est.)
'''Age Range & Gender Breakdown:'''
0-14 years: 15.6% (male 616,561/female 571,610)
15-64 years: 68.1% (male 2,609,673/female 2,567,245)
65 years and over: 16.3% (male 514,761/female 724,617) (2010 est.)
'''Nationality and Demonym:''' Swiss
'''Ethnic groups:'''
German 65%, French 18%, Italian 10%, Romansch 1%, other 6%
'''Religions:'''
Roman Catholic 41.8%, Protestant 35.3%, Muslim 4.3%, Orthodox 1.8%, other Christian 0.4%, other 1%, unspecified 4.3%, none 11.1% (2000 census)
'''Geographic coordinates: '''
47 00 N, 8 00 E <ref>"CIA - The World Factbook." Welcome to the CIA Web Site — Central Intelligence Agency. Feb. 2011. Web. 11 Feb. 2011. <https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sz.html>.
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==Brief History==
Switzerland declared its independence from the Holy Roman Empire in 1499. However, the Swiss Confederation was founded on August 1st, 1291. Their most recent constitution from 1874 replaced the confederation and created a centralized federal government. Despite being right in the middle (geographically) of both world wars Switzerland was able to stay out of both conflicts. It wasn't until 2002 that Switzerland became a member of the United Nations<ref>"CIA - The World Factbook." Welcome to the CIA Web Site — Central Intelligence Agency. Feb. 2011. Web. 11 Feb. 2011. <https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sz.html>.
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==Economic Development, Health, and Education==
The GDP for Switzerland in 2010 is estimated at $522.4 billion, while the GDP per capita is $42,900. The country has a very low unemployment rate of 3.9%. Having such a high GDP per capita & low unemployment rate requires the Swiss to have a variety of jobs and jobs that are profitable so it is no surprise that industry there includes: machinery, chemicals, watches, textiles, precision instruments, tourism, banking, and insurance.
The CIA World Factbook lists the following as their major imports & exports
'''Imports:''' machinery, chemicals, vehicles, metals; agricultural products, textiles
'''Exports:''' machinery, chemicals, metals, watches, agricultural products
The literacy rate in Switzerland is 99% for both male and females. Also, males are expected to go to school for 16 years while females are only expected to go to school for 15 years.
There are 4.12 infant deaths for every 1,000 live births. Life expectancy is very high with males expected to live 78.14 years and females even higher at 83.95 years. <ref>"CIA - The World Factbook." Welcome to the CIA Web Site — Central Intelligence Agency. Feb. 2011. Web. 11 Feb. 2011. <https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sz.html>.
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==Governance==
Switzerland has a constitution which is largely based of that of the United States. It leaves cantons (states) largely autonomous including criminal justice<ref>www.opj.usdoj.gov/bjs/</ref>.
Here is a link to view the constitution electronically.
http://www.admin.ch/ch/e/rs/c101.html
===Elections===
Like the United States, the voting age for all adults in Switzerland is 18. Any citizen is able to participate in the elections <ref>"Election Resources on the Internet: Federal Elections in Switzerland - Elections to the Nationalrat." Election Resources on the Internet / Recursos Electorales En La Internet. 6 Aug. 2010. Web. Mar. 2011. <http://electionresources.org/ch/>.</ref>.
•The President is appointed by the Federal Parliament to serve a 1-year term. The current president as of 2011 is Micheline Calmy-Rey, she is the second female to serve as president and this is also her second term (2007).
•In the Council of States, 46 members are to serve 4-year terms*. In the National Council 200 members are elected by popular vote. These seats are distributed proportional to the population of the canton.
* Two representatives are elected from each of the 20 cantons and one is elected from each of the six half-cantons, according to cantonal procedure. <ref>"Election Profile." Election Guide. Democracy Assistance & Elections News from the Consortium for Elections and Political Process Strengthening, 21 Feb. 2006. Web. Feb. 2011. <http://www.electionguide.org/election.php?ID=1140>.</ref>.
"Electors in multi-member constituencies choose among lists of candidates. Two or more lists may form an electoral alliance, and two or more lists within an alliance may form an electoral sub-alliance. Political parties often present multiple, allied lists representing male and female sections, youth and senior citizen wings, or geographical areas within a canton; electors vote for as many candidates as there are seats to be filled. Electors may select a single list, and in this manner vote for every candidate on the list, but they may also drop a candidate from the list, and either put another candidate from the same list a second time, thus casting an additional vote for that candidate (a procedure known as cumulation), or write in the name of a candidate from another list (a practice known in French as panachage); in fact, electors may even compose their own lists by combining candidates from different lists. Meanwhile, electors in single-seat cantons cast a vote for only one candidate <ref>"Election Resources on the Internet: Federal Elections in Switzerland - Elections to the Nationalrat." Election Resources on the Internet / Recursos Electorales En La Internet. 6 Aug. 2010. Web. Feb. 2011. <http://electionresources.org/ch/>.</ref>."
===Judicial Review===
There is judicial review of legislative acts except when they are from federal decrees<ref>"CIA - The World Factbook." Welcome to the CIA Web Site — Central Intelligence Agency. Feb. 2011. Web. 11 Feb. 2011. <https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sz.html</ref>.
==Courts and Criminal Law==
===Punishment===
Prison Statistics:
Prison Population: 6,181
Percentage that are women: 5.6%
Percentage that are foreign: 71.6%
Minors: .6%<ref>Swiss Statistics - Prisons, Detention - Key Figures." Statistik Schweiz - Bundesamt Für Statistik. Swiss Statistics, 11 Nov. 2010. Web. 01 May 2011. <http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/en/index/themen/19/03/05/key/ueberblick/wichtigsten_zahlen.html>.</ref>
The death penalty in Switzerland was abolished in 1942 but there have been recent efforts by the people of the country to bring it back<ref>Death Penalty Initiative Launched in Switzerland. - Swissinfo." Swissinfo - Swiss News and Information Platform about Switzerland, Business, Culture, Sport, Weather. SwissInfo.Ch, 24 Aug. 2010. Web. Mar. 2011. <http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news_digest/Death_penalty_initiative_launched_in_Switzerland.html?cid=26355138>.</ref>.
The penalty for murder is at least 5 years in prison or as they saying being deprived of liberty.
Rape carries with it a sentence of 1 to 10 years. However if there is cruelty involved there is a minimum sentence of 3 years.
The penalty for assault for according to the Swiss Penal Code is just a fine with the exception of a few special circumstances.
High Treason warrants at least a one year jail sentence<ref>RS 311.0 Livre 2 Dispositions Spéciales (Code Pénal Suisse)." Admin.ch - Startseite. The Federal Authorities of the Swiss Confederation, 1 Jan. 2011. Web. 25 Apr. 2011. <http://www.admin.ch/ch/f/rs/311_0/index2.html>.</ref>.
Corporal Punishment in Switzerland is prohibited in schools, as a form of punishment and as discipline in the penal system. However, corporal punishment in the home is legal <ref>"Global Progress." End All Corporal Punishment of Children. Jan. 2011. Web. 27 Apr. 2011. <http://www.endcorporalpunishment.org/pages/progress/reports/switzerland.html>.</ref>
Juveniles and Justice
Like in America much of the criminal justice system varies slightly by canton (State). They view juveniles as 7 to 18 years old. But it was said that this was likely to change to 10 years old when a new law is passed<ref>Zermatten, Jean. "The Swiss Federal Statute on Juvenile Criminal Law." European Society of Criminology. 2006. Web. Feb.-Mar. 2011. <http://www.esc-eurocrim.org/files/ch11.pdf>.</ref>.
===Law Enforcement===
Each of the 26 cantons in Switzerland are responsible for having their own police force. They are responsible for every aspect of the force from recruiting, training, equipping, arming, and uniforming their force. Also, there are more than 100 cities and towns that have their own police force. The responsibilities of these departments including maintaining law and order.
Since the cantons are responsible for their own police force it has resulted in a unique situation where there are several different organization styles. Including
"The German-speaking cantons divide their police forces into three main areas: criminal, security and traffic police."
"The French-speaking cantons, however, divide their forces into two sectors: the “gendarmerie“ and “sûreté“. The “gendarmerie“ is equivalent to the security police in the German-speaking cantons, and usually also includes the traffic police. The „sûreté“, on the other hand, is equivalent to the criminal police."
"The Italian-speaking canton Ticino has its own system and divides its forces into geographical sectors."
"Finally, Canton Basel-Stadt deserves special mention, because in this canton the public prosecutor’s office is in charge of the criminal police, and the police commando unit is in charge of the force that carries out search operations."
The Federal Office of Police is responsible for maintaining and protecting national security. In addition they also provide information, coordination and analysis to assist the cantons. Though it should be noted that there is NO federal police force in Switzerland<ref>"Security." Startseite EJPD. Federal Department of Justice and Police, 19 Aug. 2008. Web. 1 May 2011. <http://www.ejpd.admin.ch/content/ejpd/en/home/themen/sicherheit/ref_polizeistruktur.html></ref>.
Information from the CIA World Factbook says that the Manpower of available for military service in Switzerland is males: 1,828,043
females: 1,786,552. It also states that between the ages of 19-26 citizens must serve complusory service for males only, and voluntary service for both males and females is 18 years. It is required that every Swiss male serve at least 260 days in the armed forces; "conscripts receive 18 weeks of mandatory training, followed by seven 3-week intermittent recalls for training during the next 10 years<ref>CIA - The World Factbook." Welcome to the CIA Web Site — Central Intelligence Agency. United States Government, 25 Apr. 2011. Web. 02 May 2011. <https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/sz.html></ref>."
===Crime Rates and Public Opinion===
Switzerland falls under the same family of law that most of Europe falls under: civil law <ref>"Alphabetical Index of the Political Entities and Corresponding Legal Systems." JuriGlobe-World Legal Systems. University of Ottawa. Web. Mar. 2010. <http://www.juriglobe.ca/eng/sys-juri/index-alpha.php#SWITZERLAND>.</ref>. "Switzerland had in the course of its legal history been under the influence of French, German, and Austrian-Hungarian criminal legislation. After having long been a cantonal matter,the substantial criminal law was unified in 1937. The criminal code, which entered into effect in 1942, has been a fairly independent codification, innovating upon and melting various
concepts from neighboring countries." Their system is aimed at finding the truth rather than formal issues<ref>Tonry, Michael. "Cross-National Studies In Crime and Justice." Bureau of Justice Statistics. Ed. David P. Farrington and Patrick A. Langan. U.S. Department of Justice, Sept. 2004. Web. Mar. 2010. <http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/cnscj.pdf>.</ref>.
According to the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) it appears that Switzerland has a very low use of drugs compared to other countries. They report the following percentage of the population using each of these drugs ranging in age from 15-64:
'''Opiates:''' .61%
'''Cocaine:''' .80%
'''Cannabis:''' 9.7%
'''Amphetamines:''' .6%
'''Ecstasy:''' .3%
In 2007 only 7,400 people were being treated for drug problems in Switzerland<ref>"World Drug Report 2010." United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. United Nations, 2010. Web. Mar. 2011. <http://www.unodc.org/documents/wdr/WDR_2010/World_Drug_Report_2010_lo-res.pdf>.</ref>.
According to data from the International Crime Victim Surveys(ICVS) and government sources the UNODC & Tilberg University put together a report that included results from many countries including Switzerland. Here are the crime rates they provide<ref>Van Dijk, Jan, and John Van Kesteren. "Criminal Victimisation in International Perspective." Rechten.uvt.nl. Ed. Paul Smit. Tilberg University, 2007. Web. Feb.-Mar. 2011. <http://rechten.uvt.nl/icvs/pdffiles/ICVS2004_05.pdf>.</ref>:
'''Burglary:''' 1.6% (middle of countries providing data) Recently this rate has been on the rise
'''Car Theft:''' .6% (low among countries providing data)
'''Theft of Personal Property (includes pick-pocketing):''' 5.9% This is 3rd highest among nations reporting
'''Robbery:''' .8% middle of
'''Sexual Assault on Women:''' .9% makes them 7th among countries reporting.
'''Consumer Fraud:''' 7.3%
'''Corruption:''' .5% towards the top
63% of Crime is reported to police in Switzerland making them near the top in terms of reported crime<ref>Van Dijk, Jan, and John Van Kesteren. "Criminal Victimisation in International Perspective." Rechten.uvt.nl. Ed. Paul Smit. Tilberg University, 2007. Web. Feb.-Mar. 2011. <http://rechten.uvt.nl/icvs/pdffiles/ICVS2004_05.pdf>.</ref>.
72% of people report that they are satisfied with the police which is second among countries reporting data<ref>Van Dijk, Jan, and John Van Kesteren. "Criminal Victimisation in International Perspective." Rechten.uvt.nl. Ed. Paul Smit. Tilberg University, 2007. Web. Feb.-Mar. 2011. <http://rechten.uvt.nl/icvs/pdffiles/ICVS2004_05.pdf>.</ref>.
26% of people think that a burglary is likely or very likely in the coming year<ref>Van Dijk, Jan, and John Van Kesteren. "Criminal Victimisation in International Perspective." Rechten.uvt.nl. Ed. Paul Smit. Tilberg University, 2007. Web. Feb.-Mar. 2011. <http://rechten.uvt.nl/icvs/pdffiles/ICVS2004_05.pdf>.</ref>.
In 2004/2005 69% of the population thought that the police were doing a good job or a very good job. A number which has climbed from 50% in 1989.<ref>Van Dijk, Jan, and John Van Kesteren. "Criminal Victimisation in International Perspective." Rechten.uvt.nl. Ed. Paul Smit. Tilberg University, 2007. Web. Feb.-Mar. 2011. <http://rechten.uvt.nl/icvs/pdffiles/ICVS2004_05.pdf>.</ref>
The homicide rate in 1999 for Switzerland was between .009 and .010 per 1,000 capita. There were 76 reported Homicides. While the reported rapes per 1,000 capita was about .23
Conviction rate for homicide in '99 was .01 per 1000 capita. The average sentence for murder was 100 months and the average served time was only 60 months. <ref>Tonry, Michael. "Cross-National Studies In Crime and Justice." Bureau of Justice Statistics. Ed. David P. Farrington and Patrick A. Langan. U.S. Department of Justice, Sept. 2004. Web. Mar. 2010. <http://bjs.ojp.usdoj.gov/content/pub/pdf/cnscj.pdf>.</ref>
==Rights==
According to the Swiss Constitution there are several rights that are guaranteed to its citizens, many are similar to those of citizens of the United States. Including equality, liberty,the protection of human dignity,equality before the law, no discrimination based upon race, religion, sex, ethnicity, etc. Everyone has the right to be treated by state authorities in good faith and a non-arbitrary manor. Citizens have the right to life and personal freedom. There is special protection for children and their integrity. Everyone has the right to assistance when it is needed in order to have a decent standard of living. The right to marry and have a family. Freedom of religion and conscience. Freedom of expression, information and media. Censorship is prohibited. Children have the right to primary school education. Citizens have the right to artistic expression and academic freedom. Freedom of assembly and association<ref>"Swiss Legislation." Admin.ch - Startseite. Federal Authorties of the Swiss Confederation. Web. 02 May 2011. <http://www.admin.ch/ch/e/rs/c101.html></ref>. For full rights guaranteed in the constitution please follow this link. http://www.admin.ch/ch/e/rs/1/101.en.pdf
===Family Law===
According to the United States Office or Personnel Management Investigations Services just because you are born in Switzerland you are not guaranteed citizenship. If you are born outside of the country you must register by the age of 22 or you will not be considered a Swiss citizen <ref>"Binational - Separation and Divorce." Binational.ch . July 2008. Web. 25 Apr. 2011. <http://www.binational.ch/en/fragen/trennung.html>.</ref>.
===Marriage===
According to the Swiss Federal Office of Foreign Affairs getting married there is much more complicated and costly than it is in the United States.
According to the Website swissworld.org there has been a downward trend in the number of people getting married, one main reason is that it is possible for the parents to have joint parental rights making without getting married.
Since 2007 same-sex unions in Switzerland have been recognized and couples share the same benefits as marriage<ref>"Marriage / Domestic Partnership in Switzerland." Eda.admin.ch. Federal Department Of Foreign Affairs, 21 Feb. 2011. Web. 25 Apr. 2011. <http://www.eda.admin.ch/eda/en/home/reps/nameri/vusa/ref_livfor/livusa/marria.html>.</ref> .
===Divorce===
If both parties can come to an agreement the court will hear from them together and separately then after to months if the both still wish to be divorced the divorce will be granted. Consequences of divorce include
“The couple is separated in terms of the law of matrimonial property, i.e. their assets are distributed in accordance with the system of marital property.
Decisions are made about maintenance payments (alimony for children and for spouses).
Decisions are made about custody and visiting rights for the couple's children”
The divorce agreement includes
“children's needs, parental rights and duties such as custody, visiting rights, child maintenance
agreements based on property law between the spouses, such as divisions in terms of the law of matrimonial property and post-marital maintenance <ref>"Marriage / Domestic Partnership in Switzerland." Eda.admin.ch. Federal Department Of Foreign Affairs, 21 Feb. 2011. Web. 25 Apr. 2011. <http://www.eda.admin.ch/eda/en/home/reps/nameri/vusa/ref_livfor/livusa/marria.html>.</ref>.”
===Adoption===
To adopt a child several requirements must be met. These include child’s consent, the age of both the parents and child, and a period of time for assessing the adoption. In addition those wishing to adopt must meet certain requirements. These include: couples must be married for at least five years or be over the age of 35, you may adopt your spouse’s child if you have been married for more than five years, single parents may also adopt a child. The authority to approve an adoption after one year is with the “cantonal authority of the adoptive parent's domicile <ref>"Www.ch.ch - Welcome to the Swiss Portal of the Federal Government, the Cantons and the Communes - Adoption: Information." Ch.ch - Schweizer Portal Von Bund, Kantonen Und Gemeinden - Privatpersonen. Federal Chancellery. Web. 27 Apr. 2011. <http://www.ch.ch/private/00029/00036/00338/00339/index.html?lang=en>.</ref>.”
===Inheritance===
According to Swiss law statutory heirs are descendants, parental heirs and spouses. If there is not a will or inheritance contract in place the following is what they follow.
“The surviving spouse gets:
a) half of the estate if there are descendants of the deceased, or
b) three quarters of the estate if there are no descendants but parental heirs, or
c) if there are no parental heirs either, the full estate. Children always inherit in equal shares <ref>Wills & Inheritance Law in Switzerland - AngloINFO Geneva, in the Geneva Region (Switzerland)." AngloINFO Geneva: Living in and Moving to the Geneva Region, Switzerland. GHR Rechtsanwälte AG. Web. 28 Apr. 2011. <http://geneva.angloinfo.com/countries/switzerland/wills.asp>.</ref>.“
What is interesting about these laws is that a man or woman cannot do everything that they want with their will or inheritance contract. By law their parents, children, spouses are entitled to a portion of the estate. Also, and assets and liabilities are taken on by the heirs at the moment of death <ref>Wills & Inheritance Law in Switzerland - AngloINFO Geneva, in the Geneva Region (Switzerland)." AngloINFO Geneva: Living in and Moving to the Geneva Region, Switzerland. GHR Rechtsanwälte AG. Web. 28 Apr. 2011. <http://geneva.angloinfo.com/countries/switzerland/wills.asp>.</ref>.
===Human Rights===
As far as racism and discrimination go, the 2010 Amnesty International Report says that there have been issues with political decisions that infringe upon some Human Rights. For example a law was passed banning the construction of minarets, which was discrimination against Muslims. They also so that migrant children cannot easily access education and a report by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance said that there is a lack of places for traveling populations to set-up leading to hostile situations with locals when they set-up in their areas. In addition they call for harsher penalties for crimes committed against minorities.
The report says that there is ill treatment by police against asylum seekers in the country. They applaud Switzerland for a new law against Violence and Trafficking of Women and Girls but say that there still needs to be support programs for victims.
What is shocking from the report is that politicians voted AGAINST religious freedom<ref>"Switzerland - Amnesty International Report 2010 | Amnesty International." Amnesty International | Working to Protect Human Rights. Web. 25 Apr. 2011. <http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/switzerland/report-2010>.</ref>.
The State Departments report for 2010 confirms much of what is said in the Amnesty International Report. They say that there was discrimination against Muslims, anti-Semitic incidents, violence against women, trafficking in persons, and discrimination against minorities. The report says that there were many cases were suspects were held for over 50 days before trial. The law says that except in extreme situations suspects must be brought before a prosecutor and judge within 24 hours of detainment <ref>"2010 Human Rights Report: Switzerland." U.S. Department of State. Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor, 11 Apr. 2011. Web. 25 Apr. 2011. <http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2010/eur/154454.htm>.</ref>.
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*Arthur, "Biographical Dictionaries in the Digital Era". Advancing Digital Humanities: Research, Methods, Theories. 2014. Chapter 6. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=z7MaBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA83#v=onepage&q&f=false Page 83] et seq.
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*Slocum, Robert B (ed). Biographical Dictionaries and Related Works. Gale Research Company. 2nd Ed: 1986 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5uMpAQAAMAAJ]
*Biographical Dictionaries Master Index. (Gale Biographical Index Series). [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZEshAQAAMAAJ] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pPAzAQAAIAAJ] see also [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=o_gPAQAAMAAJ]
*Children's Authors and Illustrators: An Index to Biographical Dictionaries. (Gale Biographical Index Series). 2nd Ed: 1978, 3rd Ed: 1981, 4th Ed: 1987 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VIsWAQAAMAAJ] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DFtGAQAAIAAJ] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=01wjAQAAIAAJ]
*Index to the Wilson Authors Series [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=oNZkAAAAMAAJ]
*Auchterlonie. Arabic Biographical Dictionaries: A Summary Guide and Bibliography. 1987 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rW59QgAACAAJ]
*Black Biographical Dictionaries, 1790-1950 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=laIUAQAAMAAJ]
Particular works:
*Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; Dictionary of National Biography
*Boase. Modern English Biography. ([http://www.google.com/search?q=editions%3Auzt3-qMuFcMC&btnG=Search+Books&bksoutput=html_text&tbm=bks&tbo=1 editions:uzt3-qMuFcMC])
*A & C Black's Who's Who
*Who Was Who
*The Academic Who's Who. A & C Black. 1st Ed: 1973 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dnUWAQAAMAAJ] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fXJmAAAAMAAJ]. 2nd Ed: 1975. Commentary: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7VyOANl2qxoC&pg=PA208&output=html_text]. GBooks: editions:INAP7GGD2gYC editions:tA0FkHC75FIC
*Dictionary of Edwardian Biography (Pike's New Century Series)
Works that comprise largely of biographies:
*The Penguin Companion to Literature
Theatres
*A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TGgS9VxWJ0oC vol 15]
==Dictionaries of dates==
[https://archive.org/search.php?query=%22dictionary%20of%20dates%22 Archive.org]
*Baxter Dictionary of Dates and Events. 1st Ed: 1963: Napier, M (ed). 2nd Ed: 1971: Sanders and Laffin. Commentary: 92 Library Journal 1819 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CExVAAAAYAAJ]
*Beeching, Cyril Leslie. A Dictionary of Dates. OUP. 1st Ed: 1993. 2nd Ed: 1997. [https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&tbm=bks&q=editions:UGGp0EexZdcC editions:UGGp0EexZdcC]
*Bolton, John. Bolton's Dictionary of Dates, arranged in alphabetical order. Foulsham. 1958. Review: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=awJPAAAAIAAJ 172] The Publisher 880
*[[w:William Darling (politician)|William Young Darling]]. A Book of Days: A Dictionary of Dates, a Chronology of Circumstance, the Face of Time. Richards Press. 1951. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=PLkfAAAAMAAJ]
*Everyman's Dictionary of Dates. 1st Ed: 1911. 6th Ed: 1971. Review: (1971) 11 RQ 164 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/25824440]
*Platt, Charles. Foulsham's Dictionary of Dates and General Information. 1930.
*[[w:Haydn's Dictionary of Dates|Haydn's Dictionary of Dates]]
*Hamlyn Dictionary of Dates and Anniversaries. Newnes Dictionary of Dates.
*Williams, Henry Llewellyn. Hurst's Dictionary of Dates. 1891. [https://archive.org/details/hurstsdictionary00will]
*Keller, Helen Rex. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan. 1934. Commentary: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Utcb32E7rsMC&pg=PA93&output=html_text] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sAHfY6QbOEwC&pg=PA351&output=html_text]
*Nelson's Dictionary of Dates. A Dictionary of Dates. (Nelson's Encyclopaedic Library). 1912 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Mp9lvwEACAAJ]. Reviews: (June 1912) Journal of Education, vol 34 (New Series), vol 44 (Old Series), p 392 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QIRFAQAAMAAJ]; (1912) [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9i4_AQAAIAAJ 108] The Spectator [http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/18th-may-1912/25/a-dictionary-of-dates-vol-i-and-english-idioms-nel 805] (18 May)
*Pulman, George Palmer. The World's Progress: A Dictionary of Dates. New York. 1861. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?printsec=frontcover&id=k3dJAAAAYAAJ&output=html]
*Urdang, Laurence. The World Almanac Dictionary of Dates. Longman. 1982. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=I4IRAQAAMAAJ] Review: (1982) 22 RQ 101 [http://www.jstor.org/stable/25826880]
Australia
*John Henniker Heaton. Australian Dictionary of Dates and Men of the Time. 1879. [https://archive.org/details/australiandicti00heatgoog]
*John James Knight. In the Early Days; History and Incident of Pioneer Queensland, with Dictionary of Dates in Chronological Order. Sapsford & Co. Brisbane. 1895.
America
*Damon, Charles Ripley. The American Dictionary of Dates, 458-1920. R G Badger. 1921.
==Commodity dictionaries==
*Statistical Classification of Domestic and Foreign Commodities Exported from the United States. Commentary: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=91GLhsJSBj8C&pg=PR22#v=onepage&q&f=false] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RPwhAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA15-PA7#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Tovarnyi slovar'. (Commodity Dictionary). Reviews and commentary: Petrov, "Commodity Dictionary", Ekonomicheskaya Gazeta, No 13, 30 October 1961, p 45; CDSP , 13 December 1961, p 46; (1962) [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2vMRAAAAIAAJ 13] Current Digest of the Soviet Press 47; (1958) 15 Quarterly Journal of Current Acquisitions 210 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZcvozpZAfpEC] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=S47qEIfyCr0C]; Fitzpatrick, Stalinism: New Directions, [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rD5FzoKnTE0C&pg=PA182#v=onepage&q&f=false p 182] & 183
*Szilágyi. Commodity Dictionary in Five Languages. Budapest. Közgazdasági és Jogi Könyvkiadó (Publishing House for Economics and Law). 1963 or 1964. Commentary: Books from Hungary, vols 4-6, pp 26 & 40 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6kMiAQAAMAAJ]
*Dictionnaire des produits: appellations et caractéristiques des produits francais de consommation courante, 1960. Commentary: Walford (ed), Guide to Reference Material Supplement, 1963, p 106 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ej-9pHGR67oC]
*Chūgoku Shōhin Jiten. (Chinese commodity dictionary). Tokyo. 1960. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Wc61lS0xj6AC&pg=PA78#v=onepage&q&f=false]
==Encyclopedias==
See [[s:Category:Encyclopedias]], [[w:Bibliography of encyclopedias]] and [[w:Lists of encyclopedias]]
*Paton, John (ed). Knowledge Encyclopedia: 1979, 1981, 1988. New Discovery Encyclopedia: 1990.
*The Dorling Kindersley Illustrated Family Encyclopedia
==Almanacs==
See [[s:Category:Almanacs]], [[s:Portal:Almanacs]], [[w:List of almanacs]], [[w:Category:Almanacs]].
*Year Book and Almanac of Newfoundland.
**For 1896. 1895. [https://archive.org/details/yearbooknfld189600newfuoft]
*Whiteley. On This Date: A Day-by-Day Listing of Holidays, Birthday and Historic Events, and Special Days, Weeks and Months. 2002. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sKCfomKSa74C]
==Censuses==
*Census of New Zealand and Labrador
**1901 Census. Tables 2 and 3. 1903. [https://archive.org/details/censusnewfoundl00bondgoog]
**1911 Census. Table 1. 1914. [https://archive.org/details/1911981911fnfldv11914eng]
**1921 Census. Tables 4 and 5. 1923. [https://archive.org/details/1921981921fnfldv451923eng]
==Pilot guides==
*[[w:United States Coast Pilot|United States Coast Pilot]]
*American Coast Pilot [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8GoDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Sailing Directions: Newfoundland. Canadian Hydrographic Service. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=A77fAAAAMAAJ]
*Newfoundland Pilot. Canadian Hydrographic Service. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=z7zfAAAAMAAJ]
*Maxwell. The Newfoundland Pilot. Hydrographic Office, Admiralty. London. 1878. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vS4BAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Newfoundland Pilot. HO No 73. Hydrographic Office. Governement Printing Office, Washington. 4th Ed: 1919: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YGoDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false]. Sailing Directions for Newfoundland. 5th Ed: 1931: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cMUiGo3JK9QC&pg=PP5#v=onepage&q&f=false]
==Books of facts==
*The Reader's Digest Book of Facts. 1st Ed: 1985. Reprinted with amendments: 1987: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=B8PmM_5Zm1MC]. (Review: Library Journal, [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EPDgAAAAMAAJ v 9], p 102, 1 Dec 1987, [http://www.bookverdict.com/details.xqy?uri=Product-94667328910921.xml Book Verdict].) 3rd Revised Ed: 1995: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=E5YhAQAAIAAJ]. GBooks: editions:nnJlLybWxbIC
*Chambers Book of Facts
*Crystal, David (ed). Penguin Book of Facts. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=k0sZAQAAIAAJ 2004]. 2nd Ed: 2008
*Handy Book of Facts: Things Everyone Should Know. C.S. Hammond & Company. 1914. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=h5wRAAAAIAAJ]
==Series of books==
See [[w:Category:Series of books]] and [[w:Category:Monographic series]]
*George M Sinkankas, "Series" in Kent, Lancour and Daily (eds). Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. Volume 27. Marcel Dekker. 1979. Pages [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jU3fwyjqS5UC&pg=PA250#v=onepage&q&f=false 250] to 273.
*"Publishing in Series, 1896-1916" in Eliot, Simon (ed). History of Oxford University Press. Louis, Wm Roger (ed). Volume 3: 1896-1970. Oxford University Press. 2013. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YbcJAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA539#v=onepage&q&f=false Page 539] et seq.
*Spiers, John. The Culture of the Publisher’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan. 2011. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ASaHDAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false vol 1]. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XCl-DAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false vol 2].
*Spiers, John. Serious about Series: American 'Cheap' Libraries, British 'Railway' Libraries and Some Literary Series of the 1890's. 2007. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1hRXAAAAYAAJ] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AS4yQwAACAAJ]
*Rooney, Paul Raphael. Railway Reading and Late-Victorian Literary Series. Routledge. 2018. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uX5aDwAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Khan. "Monographs in series". The Principles and Practice of Library Science. 1996. Pages [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sAHfY6QbOEwC&pg=PA208#v=onepage&q&f=false 207] to 209.
*Friskney. New Canadian Library: The Ross-McClelland Years, 1952-1978. Pages [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jHIjCCXBX9kC&pg=PA6#v=onepage&q&f=false 6] and 7.
*Books in Series. R R Bowker Company. Commentary: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uQe04OSlA7YC&pg=PA11#v=onepage&q&f=false]
**Books in Series in the United States, 1966-1975. R R Bowker. 1977. Review: (1977) 14 Choice [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_e08AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1190#v=onepage&q&f=false 1190] (No 8, November). Commentary: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LYAhAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA53#v=onepage&q&f=false]
***Books in Series Supplement: A Supplement to Books in Series in the United States, 1966-1975. 1978. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hOAaAQAAMAAJ]
**Books in Series. 3rd Ed. 1980. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=d_kaAQAAMAAJ]
**Books in Series, 1876-1949. R R Bowker Company. 1982. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TngvAQAAIAAJ] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iVIyAQAAMAAJ] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=R2AjAQAAIAAJ]
**Books in Series, 1985-89. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yEkxAQAAIAAJ]
*Baer, Eleanora Agnes. Titles in Series: A Handbook for Librarians and Students. Scarecrow Press. Vol 1 (Books Published Prior to January 1953). 1953: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GgAYAAAAMAAJ]. Vol 2 (Books Published Prior to January 1957). 1957: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=oqsXAAAAMAAJ]
**2nd Ed: 1964. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gWlAAAAAIAAJ Vol 1]. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tWpAAAAAIAAJ Vol 2]. Supplement to the Second Edition. 1967: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zGARAQAAMAAJ]. Second Supplement to the Second Edition. 1971: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WwXhAAAAMAAJ]
**3rd Ed: 1978. Commentary: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=h_wfYKnMfOkC&pg=PA63#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Ocran, Emmanuel Benjamin. Scientific & Technical Series: A Select Bibliography. 1973: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=oy0EAAAAMAAJ] Review: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fTCw_DQH6zkC&pg=PA949#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Rosenberg and Nichols. Young People's Books in Series: Fiction and Non-fiction, 1975-1991. Libraries Unlimited. 1992. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=REHhAAAAMAAJ]
*Young People's Literature in Series
*Catalog of Reprints in Series. (sometimes called "Catalogue of Reprints in Series"). 1940 onwards. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MSI4AAAAIAAJ] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6n1EAAAAMAAJ] Commentary: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=h_wfYKnMfOkC&pg=PA73#v=onepage&q&f=false] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1RxuAAAAMAAJ]
*Kuitert, Lisa. Het ene boek in vele delen. De Uitgave van Literaire Series in Nederland 1850-1900. Uitgeverij de Buitenkant. Amsterdam. 1993. Commentary: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jSDnRo7YrWwC&pg=PA656#v=onepage&q&f=false] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=szBcAAAAMAAJ] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SVcVAQAAIAAJ] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=R8Pfs146nUAC&pg=PA367#v=onepage&q&f=false]
==Series of classics==
*Penguin Classics (Penguin Modern Classics, Penguin English Library)
*Oxford World Classics
*Everyman's Library
*Wordsworth Classics
*Macmillan Collectors Library
*Bantam Classics
*Minster Classics
*The Literary Heritage Collection (Heron Books, London. William Collins Sons & Co, Glasgow)
*Chandos Classics
*Temple Classics
*Longmans Heritage of Literature Series
Russian
*Greatest Masterpieces of Russian Literature (Heron Books, London)
SF
*Corgi SF Collectors Library
Children's and shorter classics etc
*Shorter Classics. Ginn and Company.
*Ladybird Children's Classics.
*Mini Classics. Parragon Books.
*Bonny Books. Peter Haddock Ltd.
*A series published by Dean & Son Ltd
==Non-fiction general series==
*[[w:Oxford Companions|Oxford Companions]]
*[[w:Cambridge Companions|Cambridge Companions]]
*Princeton Companions
*Blackwell Companions. Wiley Blackwell Companions
*Routledge Companions. Routledge Research Companions
*Ashgate Companions. Ashgate Research Companions
*Brill's Companions
*Facts on File Companions
*Guides to Information Sources. Bowker-Saur
*Butterworths Guides to Information Sources.
*Columbia Guides
*Blackwell Guides
*Edinburgh Critical Guides
*Collins Reference Dictionaries
*New Horizons. Thames and Hudson. ([[w:Découvertes Gallimard|Découvertes Gallimard]])
*Collins Gem (see [[w:List of Collins GEM books]])
*Concise Encyclopedias. Collins.
*Time Life Books (see [[w:Time Life#Book series]])
*[[w:Teach Yourself|Teach Yourself Books]]. English Universities Press.
*[[w:Teach Yourself|Teach Yourself Books]]. Hodder and Stoughton.
*Made Simple Books. W H Allen.
*Palgrave Master Series
*Harrap's Mini Series
*Shire Albums. Shire Publications.
*Fax Pax: Knowledge in a Nutshell. Fax Pax Ltd.
*The Wonderful World Books. Macdonald and Company
*Harper's ABC series. Includes A-B-C of Housekeeping, A-B-C of Electricity, A-B-C of Gardening and A-B-C of Manners.
*Hamlyn Pocket Guides
*Oxford Monograph Series
*Study Outline Series. H W Wilson. [[s:Page:Russian Literature - A Study Outline.djvu/61|(wikisource)]]
*Helpmate Handbooks. Willow Books
University
*University Paperbacks. Meuthen & Co
*World Student Series. Addison Wesley
*Unibooks. Hodder and Stoughton
*International Student Editions. Van Nostrand Reinhold
*Hutchinson University Library
Imprints
*Pelican Books
Pictorials
*Salmon Cameracolour series
*Pitkin Pictorials
United Kingdom
*Aspects of Britain. HMSO.
Places
*The Little Guides. Meuthen [[s:Page:Cornwall (Salmon).djvu/336|(wikisource)]]
*G.W.R. Series of Travel Books [[s:Page:The Cornwall coast.djvu/391|(wikisource)]]
Art
*Movements in World Art. Meuthen.
*Movements in Modern Art. Meuthen.
*How to Draw and Paint. New Burlington.
Film
*BFI Companions
Popular science
*Contemporary Science Paperbacks. Oliver and Boyd.
*Pan Piper Science Series
Science and mathematics
*Simon and Schuster Tech Outlines
*Schaum's Outline Series
Military
*Illustrated Military Guides. Illustrated Guides. "An Illustrated Guide to ...". Salamander Books.
*Combat Arms. Arco Military Books. Salamander Books. Prentice Hall Press.
*Osprey Men-at-Arms
*Jane's Pocket Books
Communication
*The Library of Communication Techniques. Focal Press.
*John Fiske (ed). Studies in Culture and Communication. Routledge.
*The Media. Wayland.
Cookery
*ABC series. Peter Pauper Press.
Gardening
*Pan Piper Small Gardens Series.
Mythology
*Series on mythology published by Southwater (imprint of Anness)
==History and Geography==
See also [[Universal Bibliography/History|History]] and [[Universal Bibliography/Geography|Geography]].
*Baker. Geography and History: Bridging the Divide. 2003. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=e8yf5JcefpAC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Darby. Relations of History and Geography: Studies in England, France and the United States. 2002. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Vl4ZfpnP7NwC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
General series
*Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography
Atlases
*The Times Atlas of World History
*Philip's Atlas of World History
History of geography:
*Dunbar, Gary S. The History of Modern Geography: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works. Garland. 1985. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FX4WAQAAIAAJ]
==Chronology==
See also [[Universal Bibliography/History#Millennia, centuries and decades]]
General
*Chronology of World History.
**Neville Williams. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the present time. 1st Ed: 1966. (1763 to 1992). 2nd Ed: 1994.
**Neville Williams. Chronology of the Expanding World 1492 to 1762. 1969. Reissued 1994.
**Storey. Chronology of the Medieval World 800 to 1491. 1973. Reissued 1994.
**Mellersh. Chronology of the Ancient World 10,000 BC to AD 799. Barrie and Jenkins. 1976. Helicon. Simon & Schuster. Reissued 1994.
Centuries
*Chronology of the 20th Century. Helicon. 1995. [https://books.google.com/books?id=pjsOAQAAMAAJ]
*Brownstone and Franck. Timelines of the 20th Century. [https://books.google.com/books?id=IZ6SQgAACAAJ]
*Beal. 20th Century Timeline. 1985. [https://books.google.com/books?id=cFrG7LBObGoC]
*20th Century Day by Day [https://books.google.com/books?id=kyxaAAAAYAAJ] [https://books.google.com/books?id=WiOAAAAACAAJ]
*Chronicle of the 20th Century [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pt3DYbnZO8sC] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Gd1WPQAACAAJ]
*Boyle. The Chronology of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. 1826. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wDENAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Decades
*Series:
**Day by Day. Facts on File. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WfClvwEACAAJ] [https://books.google.com/books?id=CWNvQgAACAAJ]
Years
*Brown, D Kinnear. History of the Year. (1884 to 1885). [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DmRWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA113#v=onepage&q&f=false Catalogue].
*The History of the Year: A Narrative of the Chief Events and Topics of Interest. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ljgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false 1881 to 1882]. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1DgIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false 1882 to 1883].
*James Mason. The History of the Year 1876. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6DoIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*[[w:The Annual Register|The Annual Register]]. [A View of the History Politics and Literature of the Year YYYY.] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SrJNAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false 1821].
*Giusto Traina. 428AD: An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gLumDwAAQBAJ&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Ancient
*Bickerman. Chronology of the Ancient World. 1968.
*Smithsonian Timelines of the Ancient World: A Visual Chronology from the Origins of Life. Dorling Kindersley. 1st American Ed: 1993.
==Anniversaries==
*Sian Facer (ed). On this Day: The History of the World in 366 Days. Octopus Illustrated Publishing, London. Crescent Books, New York and Avenel. 1992: [https://books.google.com/books?id=SYGQgwHTuE0C]. Other: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=W687MAEACAAJ] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7ujArQEACAAJ]
*On this Day: A History of the World in 366 Days. DK. 2021. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=x4I5EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
==Egyptology==
*Annual Egyptological Bibliography [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8MoUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-eUUAAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false]
==Battlefields==
*[[w:War Walks|War Walks]]. BBC2. 1996 to 1997. [Television series]
*"The Times Guide to Battlefields of Britain". Day 1: The Times, 1 August 1994, p 8. Day 2: The Times, 2 August 1994, p 8. Day 3: The Times, 3 August 1994, p 6. Day 4: The Times, 4 August 1994, p 9. Day 5: The Times, 5 August 1994, p 9. Day 6: The Times, 6 August 1994, p 6. There was also a colour wall chart.
==Armed forces==
Periodicals:
*[[w:NATO Review|NATO Review]]
Military
*The Journal of Military History
*Journal of the Royal United Service Institution [Google editions:lMJAgUvBWAEC editions:dcFNqS8JFjoC]
*The Monthly Army List [Google editions:I0t2L4ElznEC]
*The Army Quarterly and Defence Journal [Google editions:c7UjQ-q7SbUC]
*Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research [Google editions:9HZkbMTl6mcC]
*The Royal Armoured Corps Journal [https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=editions:dEauCcI7kssC&biw=534&bih=736&dpr=1.5#sbfbu=1]
*The Royal Tank Corps Journal
*The Tank [https://www.google.com/search?sa=N&cs=0&tbm=bks&q=editions:Dv-RbpoM7acC&biw=534&bih=736&dpr=1.5#ip=1] Editorial office at the Royal Tank Regiment
*The Cavalry Journal [https://www.google.com/search?sa=N&cs=0&tbm=bks&q=editions:cVQlfkRl6KUC&biw=534&bih=688&dpr=1.5#sbfbu=1]
*The Journal of the Royal Artillery [https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=editions:liFy4uc0ggYC&biw=534&bih=736&dpr=1.5]
*Minutes of Proceedings of the Royal Artillery Institution [Google editions:wdjZ588FbtMC]
*The Royal Engineers Journal [https://www.google.com/search?tbm=bks&q=editions:8XobinXLbD0C&biw=534&bih=736&dpr=1.5]
*Journal of the Royal Electrical and Mechanical Engineers [https://books.google.com/books?id=dz0cmA1jnv4C]
*Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps [Google editions:FyUJx2dEWcQC]
United States
*Military Review
*The Coast Artillery Journal [Google editions:nMCogSJ_rlkC]
*Infantry Journal [Google editions:ULqoLmbUR5cC]
*The Reserve Officer [Google editions:JQDRDrnD1QQC]
Naval
*[[w:Navy News|Navy News]]
==Armour==
Armoured warfare; tank warfare
*Harris and Toase. Armoured Warfare. 1990. [https://books.google.com/books?id=KYPfAAAAMAAJ]
*Carver. The Apostles of Mobility: The Theory and Practice of Armoured Warfare. 1979. [https://books.google.com/books?id=8qcgAAAAMAAJ]
*Fuller. Armoured Warfare: An Annotated Edition of Fifteen Lectures on Operations between Mechanized Forces. 1943. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2E4tAQAAMAAJ]
*Black. Tank Warfare. 2020. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=oFP5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Jorgensen and Mann. Tank Warfare. 2001. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0AghAQAAIAAJ]
*Searle. Armoured Warfare: A Military, Political and Global History. 2017. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HN4CDgAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Willey. Tanks: The History of Armoured Warfare. 2018. [https://books.google.com/books?id=AXTltAEACAAJ]
*Perrett. Iron Fist: Classic Armoured Warfare Case Studies. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pKGyeWqJcCEC]. Iron Fist: Classic Armoured Warfare. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KKcKI4dG0VUC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Tom Clancy. Armoured Warfare: Guided Tour of an Armoured Cavalry Regiment. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UxhONAAACAAJ]
Atlas
*Stephen Hart (ed). Atlas of Armored Warfare: From 1916 to the Present Day. Metro Books. 2012. [https://search.worldcat.org/title/1391166759]. Atlas of Tank Warfare. [https://books.google.com/books?id=KWqppwAACAAJ]
Armored forces
*Ogorkiewicz. Armoured Forces: A History of Armoured Forces and Their Vehicles. 1970. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qIHfAAAAMAAJ]
==Mesoamerica==
*James. Aztecs & Maya: The Ancient Peoples of Middle America. Tempus. 2001. 2005. History Press. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XOXNhTY6TCYC 2009]. Reviews: "Books Received" (2003) [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3dozAQAAIAAJ 14] Minerva 57 (No 1); and "Overviews for the general reader" (2002) [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qShmAAAAMAAJ 76] Antiquity 252.
*Weaver. The Aztecs, Maya, and Their Predecessors. 1972. 2nd Ed: 1981: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0mQkAQAAIAAJ] [https://books.google.com/books?id=OWQkAQAAIAAJ]
==Accounting==
See [[s:Category:Accounting]]
Periodicals
*[[s:The Accountant|The Accountant]] (1874 onwards)
*Accountant's Magazine (1897 onwards) Aberdeen
==Arts==
*Murray (ed).The Hutchinson Dictionary of the Arts. Helicon Publishing. 1994. Paperback Ed: 1995. Reprinted 1997.
==Biography==
*Parke. Biography: Writing Lives. 2002 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6bAz2K98MeYC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Caine. Biography and History. (Theory and History). 1st Ed: 2010, 2nd Ed: 2019 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=h3dvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Periodicals
*Biography. Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly. 1978 onwards. Published by the University Press of Hawaii for the Biographical Research Center. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=s84ZAAAAYAAJ]
*Biography News. 1974 to 1975. Gale Research Company. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RRsXAQAAIAAJ]
Yearbooks
*Current Biography Yearbook [https://books.google.com/books?id=Zcml63jalMIC]
*Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook [https://books.google.com/books?id=gNNlAAAAMAAJ]
==Information technology==
*Haynes, David (ed). Information Sources in Information Technology. (Guides to Information Sources). Bowker Saur. 1990. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0hYjAAAAQBAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
==Economics==
General series:
*Dryden Press Series in Economics
*Hurl, Bryan (ed). Studies in the UK Economy. Heinemann Educational
*Nuffield Economics & Business. Nuffield Foundation. Longman.
Other:
*Bannock, Baxter and Davis. The Penguin Dictionary of Economics. Penguin Books. 4th Ed: 1987. Bannock, Baxter and Rees. 1972. 2nd Ed: 1978. 3rd Ed: 1984.
*Begg, Fischer and Dornbusch. Economics. McGraw Hill. 1984. 2nd Ed: 1987. 3rd Ed: 1991.
*Anderton, Alain. Economics. Causeway Press. 1991.
*Maile, Roger. Economics. (Core Business Studies). Mitchell Beazly. 1983.
*Maunder, Myers, Wall and Miller. Economics Explained. Collins Educational. 1987. 2nd Ed: 1991.
*Tibbitt, Andrew. A guide to A Level Economics. Thomas Nelson and Sons. 1986.
*Lipsey, Richard G. An Introduction to Positive Economics. Weidenfeld and Nicolson. 1963. 2nd Ed: 1966. 3rd Ed: 1971. 4th Ed: 1975. 5th Ed: 1979. 6th Ed: 1983. 7th Ed: 1989.
*Nicolson, Walter. Microeconomic Theory: Basic Principles and Extensions. (Dryden Press Series in Economics). Dryden Press, Holt-Saunders. 3rd Ed: 1985.
*Caves and Jones. World Trade and Payments: An Introduction. Little, Brown and Company. 1973. 1977. 3rd Ed: 1981.
*National Institute of Economic and Social Research. The UK economy. (Studies in the UK Economy). Heinemann Educational. 1990.
*Smith, Charles. UK trade and sterling. (Studies in the UK Economy). Heinemann Educational. 1992.
==Games==
Chess
*Hooper and Whyld. The Oxford Companion to Chess. Oxford University Press. 1984. Paperback: 1987.
*Golombek, Harry. The Game of Chess. 1954. 2nd Ed: 1963. 3rd Ed: 1980.
*Pritchard, D. Brine. The Right Way to Play Chess. 1950. 8th Ed: 1971. 10th Ed: 1974. 11th Ed: 1977.
*Horowitz, Al. From Morphy to Fischer: A history of the World Chess Championship. B T Batsford. 1973. The World Chess Championship: A History. Macmillan. 1973.
General series
*Batsford Chess Books
**Discovering Chess Series. B T Batsford.
Periodicals
See [[Universal Bibliography/Periodicals#Chess|Periodicals, Chess]]
*British Chess Magazine
Wargames
*Battleground. Tyne Tees. (ITV). 1978. [Television]. 6 episodes, with Edward Woodward.
**Laurie Taylor. "Attila the Hun invades Tyne Tees". TV Times. 1978. pp 28 & 29.
**Terry Wise. "Battleground". Battle for Wargamers. June 1978. pp 261 & 262.
*[[w:Game of War|Game of War]]. Channel 4. 1997. [Television].
==Cricket==
See [[w:Bibliography of cricket]]
*Peter Arnold and Peter Wynne-Thomas. The Complete Encyclopedia of Cricket. 2006. 4th Ed: 2011: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2R_pXwAACAAJ].
**Peter Arnold. The Illustrated Encyclopedia of World Cricket.
*Morgan. The Encyclopedia of World Cricket. 2007. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=gFCbkgEACAAJ]
Scores and biographies
*Marylebone Club Cricket Scores and Biographies. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dl8IAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false]
**See [[w:Arthur Haygarth]] and [[w:Fred Lillywhite]]
Periodicals
*[[w:Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game|Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game]]. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eX9QAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false].
Australia
*Malcolm Andrews. The Encyclopaedia of Australian Cricket. 1980. [https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1531463]
*The Oxford Companion to Australian Cricket
India
*The Encyclopaedia of Indian Cricket, 1965. [https://books.google.com/books?id=CE4Joad6iwAC] [Includes biographies]
Annuals
*[[w:Indian Cricket (annual)|Indian Cricket]]. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ioRLAAAAYAAJ 1966].
===Cricketers===
Cricketers, including biographical dictionaries and collections of biographies
*[[w:ESPNcricinfo|ESPNcricinfo]]
*[[w:CricketArchive|CricketArchive]]
*John Arlott's Book of Cricketers. 1979. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8-WBAAAAMAAJ]
*World Cricketers: A Biographical Dictionary [https://books.google.com/books?id=IpBLAAAAYAAJ]
*Carr's Dictionary of Extraordinary Cricketers. 1977. Aurum Press. 2005. [https://books.google.com/books?id=CfwsAAAACAAJ]
*Sproat. Debrett's Cricketers' Who's Who. 1980.
*S Canynge Caple. The Cricketer's Who's Who. Williams. Lincoln. 1934.
*Cricket Who's Who: The Cricket Blue Book. 1909. [https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/119715]. 1912. Bibliography: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IjQyAQAAMAAJ]
*Who's Who in Test Cricket: A Biographical Dictionary of Test Cricketers [https://books.google.com/books?id=5uF5PQAACAAJ]
*Frindall. England Test Cricketers: The Complete Record from 1877. 1989. [https://books.google.com/books?id=2zHYLIW7h9UC]
*Brooke. The Collins Who's Who of English First-Class Cricket, 1945-1984. 1985. [https://books.google.com/books?id=NGSPAAAACAAJ]. Review: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iHMsAAAAYAAJ]. Commentary: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wPg5AQAAIAAJ]
Gloucestershire
*Gloucestershire Cricketers, 1870-1979. (ACS Cricketers Series [https://archive.acscricket.com/cricketers_series/index.html]). The Association of Cricket Statisticians. Cleethorpes. 1979. [https://archive.acscricket.com/cricketers_series/gloucestershire_cricketers_1870-1979/index.html]
*Rex Pogson. Gloucestershire Cricket and Cricketers, 1919-1939. Lytham St Annes. 1944. Catalogues: [https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/850643] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CS83vXlB1ZIC] [https://www.worldcat.org/title/504354999]. Also printed as microfilm: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iqXeDTKUEl4C].
*Dean Hayes. Gloucestershire Cricketing Greats: 46 of the Best Cricketers for Gloucestershire. Tunbridge Wells. 1990. Catalogues: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OmsqAQAAIAAJ] [https://www.worldcat.org/title/25202795]
Australia
*The A-Z of Australian Cricketers [https://books.google.com/books?id=w-0zAAAACAAJ]
*Piesse. Encyclopedia of Australian Cricket Players. 2012. [https://books.google.com/books?id=Jsh4MAEACAAJ]
*C P Moody. Australian Cricket and Cricketers 1856-1893-4. Melbourne. 1894.
*Jack Pollard. Australian Cricket: The Game and the Players. Hodder and Stoughton. ABC Books. Sydney. Lane Cove, New South Wales. 1982. Angus & Robertson. London. North Ryde, New South Wales. Sydney. Revised Ed: 1988. Commentary: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WotYAAAAYAAJ]. Review: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KzNYAAAAMAAJ].
==Geology==
*Read and Watson. Introduction to Geology. Macmillan Education. 1962. 2nd Ed: 1968. Volume 1: Principles. Volume 2: Earth History.
==Mineralogy==
*Bibliography of Mineralogy for 1886. Annual Report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Year Ending 30 June 1887. 1889. Pages [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wDcWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA473#v=onepage&q&f=false 473] to 476.
*Battey, Maurice Hugh. Mineralogy for students. Oliver & Boyd. 1972. 2nd Ed. Longman. 1981.
==Paper==
See [[s:Category:Paper]]
*Surface. Bibliography of the Pulp and Paper Industries. Forest Service. Bulletin 123. 1913. [https://archive.org/details/bibliographyofpu12surf]
*West. Reading List on Papermaking Materials. 1920 to 1921. [https://archive.org/details/readinglistonpa00westgoog] [https://archive.org/details/readinglistonpa01westgoog]
==Books==
*British Book News [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2oFTAAAAIAAJ]
*Australasian Book News and Literary Journal. Australasian Book News and Library Journal. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QVQPAQAAIAAJ]
*Book News. 1882 to 1918. (John Wanamaker). Called "Book News Monthly" from 1906. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KtwRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Stechert-Hafner Book News [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BmDqAAAAMAAJ]
*U.S.A. Book News [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=36gVAQAAIAAJ]
*Branch Library Book News. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NM8aAAAAMAAJ]
*Hungarian Book Review [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6U85AQAAIAAJ]
*Soviet Book News. (Earl Browder). 1947 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QrXQ6LYSOF4C]
*Miniature Book News. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MascAQAAMAAJ]
Rare
*Berger. Rare Books and Special Collections. American Library Association. 2014. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IFUangEACAAJ]
Printed
*Annual Bibliography of the History of the Printed Book and Libraries. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GLigoebhrd8C&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false vol 30] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UBN-IUZlF4gC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false vol 31]
==Paperback and Paperbound==
*Swados, "Paper Books: What do they Promise?" (1953) [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TwaJtQzwj1gC 173] The Nation 114
*Wagman, "The Paperbound Book Business" (1957) 9 Michigan Business Review [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9pA8uolQjnkC&pg=RA4-PA9#v=onepage&q&f=false 9] (No 5, November)
==Science==
*Lafferty and Rowe. The Hutchinson Dictionary of Science. Helicon Publishing. 1993. 2nd Ed: 1998.
==Entertainment==
*The Directory (The Times, 1996 onwards) Commentary: [https://www.marketingweek.com/as-times-starts-listings-supplement/]
==Television==
*Rob Young. The Magic Box: Viewing Britain Through the Rectangular Window. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fH8NEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false]. Review: [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/aug/13/the-magic-box-by-rob-young-review-a-spirited-history-of-television]
Magazines
*The Radio Times
*TV Times
Newspaper television reviews etc
United Kingdom
*A A Gill. Paper View: The Best of the Sunday Times Television Columns.
*"Choice" or "Television and Radio Choice" in "Television and Radio". 1991. Middle of newspaper. The page number of the listings is given on the front page. These reviews are printed in the body of the listings, and not in a separate column.
*"Choice" or "TV Choice" in "Television and Radio". The Times. 1992. These reviews are printed in the body of the listings, and not in a separate column. These reviews are printed on the last page of the "Life & Times" section of the newspaper, for issues of the newspaper where "Life & Times" is a separate section. Otherwise they are printed in the middle of newspaper.
*"Choice" or "TV Choice" in "Television and Radio". The Times. 1992 to 1993. Penultimate page of newspaper. These reviews are printed in the body of the listings, and not in a separate column.
*"Choice". The Times. 1993 to 1997. Mondays to Fridays. Penultimate page of newspaper.
*"Television Choice". The Times. 1997 onwards. Mondays to Fridays. Third page from back of newspaper.
*"Review". The Times. 1994 onwards. Mondays to Fridays. Penultimate page of newspaper.
*There are reviews in:
**The Independent, The Guardian, The Financial Times, and The Daily Telegraph
Netherlands
*"TV: Films Video" in "televisie en radio woensdag". Limburgs Dagblad.
*"show". Limburgs Dagblad.
Japan
*"Today's Choice" in "TV/Radio". The Japan Times.
Music
*Tele-Tunes
Archives and listings
*[https://www.nhk.or.jp/archives/ NHK Archives]. [https://www.nhk.or.jp/archives/chronicle/ Chronicle]. [https://www.nhk.or.jp/archives/chronicle/timetable/ Timetables].
==Cinema==
*Edgar Anstey, "The Cinema" (1944) 172 The Spectator 10 (No 6028: 7 January 1944). Includes "Review of the Year".
==Animation==
*John Halas and Roger Manvell. The Technique of Film Animation. 4th Ed: 1976. Focal Press. ISBN 0240509005.
*Clements and McCarthy. The Anime Encyclopedia. 3rd Rev Ed: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=E03KBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA1958#v=onepage&q&f=false].
==Colours==
*Eiseman and Recker. Pantone: The 20th Century in Color. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=j3H7nSVS3UMC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]. Reviews: [https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/nov/13/pantone-20th-century-color-review][https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2011/11/pantone-100-years-of-color/249016/][https://eu.vvdailypress.com/story/lifestyle/health-fitness/2012/01/16/color-reel-20th-century-s/37119883007/]
==Culture==
*Eagleton. Culture. 2016. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=z2EdDAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Highmore. Culture. 2016. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2teoCgAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Jenks. Culture. 1993. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=6Litru5-ImAC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Crane. The Production of Culture. 1992. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DGs5DQAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Calhoun and Sennett. Practicing Culture. 2007. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NbO4CDIWhn4C&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Mead. The Study of Culture at a Distance. 1953. 2000. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5Upv9RZfPe8C&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Measuring Culture. 2020. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0se_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Popular culture
*Kornhaber. [https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/06/american-pop-culture-decline/682578/ Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture?]. The Atlantic. 5 May 2025. (June 2025 issue).
==Bilateral==
Britain and Japan
*Pearse. Companion to Japanese Britain and Ireland. In Print. 1991. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KtAxAAAAIAAJ]
==Prehistoric life==
Prehistoric animals
*[[w:Michael Benton|Michael Benton]]. Prehistoric Animals: An A-Z Guide. Kingfisher Books. 1989. Derrydale Books, New York. 1989. [Illustrations: Jim Channell and Kevin Maddison.]
*Ellis Owen. Prehistoric Animals: The Extraordinary Story of Life before Man. Octopus Books Limited. London. 1975. [Sculptures: Arthur Hayward.] Review: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=II-B8R-8Ov8C 17] Wildlife 422. Commentary: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=aUbYAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA269#v=onepage&q&f=false] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jFNBAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA5#v=onepage&q&f=false].
**Prehistorische dieren: de geschiedenis van het leven vóór de mens. Translated by JJ Hoedeman. In den Toren, Baarn. Westland, Schoten. 1977. Commentary: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ToVMAQAAIAAJ]
**Les Animaux préhistoriques: l'extraordinaire histoire de la vie avant l'homme.
Dinosaurs
*Michael Benton. Dinosaurs: An A-Z Guide. Kingfisher Books. 1988. Derrydale Books, New York. 1988. [Illustrations: Jim Channell and Kevin Maddison.]
==Continents==
===Asia===
====Far East====
Bibliography
*Kuniyoshi. Far East. (PACAF Basic Bibliographies). 1957. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Q5TLdCbP2HcC&pg=PP5#v=onepage&q&f=false]
====Japan and Korea====
Bibliography
*Bernard S Silberman. Japan and Korea: A Critical Bibliography. University of Arizona Press. 1962. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=y6UIAAAAIAAJ]
*Frank J Shulman. Japan and Korea: An Annotated Bibliography of Doctoral Dissertations in Western Languages 1877-1969. American Library Association. 1970. Routledge. 2013. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xs62AQAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
==See also==
*[[Bibliography]]
==Notes==
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See also [[Universal Bibliography/Bibliography|Bibliography]]
This part of the [[Universal Bibliography]] is a bibliography of literature.
See [[s:Category:Literature]], [[s:Category:History of literature]], [[w:Bibliography of encyclopedias: literature]] and [[w:Category:Works about literature]]
==World==
*Cassell's Encyclopaedia of World Literature. 1953. 2nd Ed: 1973. vol 1 (histories and general articles): [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=soIYAAAAIAAJ]. vol 3: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AIEYAAAAIAAJ]. Commentary: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Utcb32E7rsMC&pg=PA197#v=onepage&q&f=false].
*Damrosch. What is World Literature? 2003. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yY-17mtp9R8C&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Series:
*Edmund Gosse (ed). Literatures of the World. D Appleton and Co [https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:A_history_of_Bohemian_literature.pdf/444]
==English==
*Bateson. Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. 1940. Watson, Supplement 1957.
*Concise Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature
*New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature
*Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature. Cambridge University
*Ewen. Bibliography of Eighteenth Century English Literature. Columbia University. 1935
*Marcuse. A Reference Guide for English Studies. University of Calfornia. 1990
*Bracken. Reference Works in British and American Literature. Libraries Unlimited. 1998
*Kennedy and Sands. A Concise Bibliography for Students of English. Stanford University
*Pelican Guide to English Literature
*[[w:The Cambridge History of English and American Literature|Cambridge History of English and American Literature]]
*[[s:The Cambridge History of English Literature|Cambridge History of English Literature]]
*Concise Cambridge History of English Literature
*New Cambridge History of English Literature
*Oxford History of English Literature
*Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature
*Short Oxford History of English Literature
*Routledge History of Literature in English
*Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature
*Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature
*Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature
*Cambridge History of Victorian Literature
*Cambridge History of Twentieth Century English Literature
*[[s:The Cambridge History of American Literature|Cambridge History of American Literature]]
Periodicals
*Liverpool Magazine (1890)
*Literary Garner (1835)
===United States===
See [[w:Category:American literature by state]]
*Dershem. An Outline of American State Literature. 1921
Arizona:
*Joseph Amasa Munk, History of Arizona Literature, 1925
*Mary G Boyer, Arizona in Literature, 1935
*Etulain, "Contours of Culture in Arizona and the Modern West" in Luey and Stowe, Arizona at Seventy-five, 1987
*Diaz, "A Bibliography of Bibliographies Relating to the History and Literature of Arizona and New Mexico" (1958) 14 Arizona Quarterly 197
Colorado:
*Eugene Parsons, "Colorado Literature" in Stone, History of Colorado, 1918, volume 1, chapter 42, p 877 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-uVYAAAAMAAJ]
*Levette J Davidson, "The Literature of Colorado" in Hafen. Colorado and Its People: A Narrative and Topical History of the Centennial State. Volume 2. Chapter 8. Page 225 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sncXAAAAIAAJ]
*Fritz. "Literature". Colorado, the Centennial State. 1941. p 417 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EU0UAAAAYAAJ]
*"Books and Writers". Colorado, a Guide to the Highest State. 1941. p 96 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3o8GAQAAIAAJ]
*Eugene Parsons, "The Study of Colorado Literature" (1918) Colorado School Journal, vols 34-35, p 24 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QxNRAQAAMAAJ]
*"A Plea for the Study of Colorado Literature" (1918) The Trail: A Magazine "for Colorado", vol 11, p 12 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K7QTAAAAYAAJ]
Oregon:
*Powers, Alfred. History of Oregon Literature. Metropolitan Press. 1935 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JzELAAAAMAAJ]
*Horner, John B. Oregon Literature. 1899 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3ecWSpoFMcQC&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
==French==
See [[s:Category:French literature]]
Bibliographies and bibliographical works:
*A Critical Bibliography of French Literature. Syracuse University Press. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IFJQl7eUrg4C&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false vol 5]
*Bassan, Breed and Spinelli. An Annotated Bibliography of French Language and Literature. 2nd Ed: 1976 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BdkaAAAAMAAJ]
*French XX Bibliography: A Bibliography for the Study of French Literature and Culture since 1885. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VxVxFxyDOmkC&pg=PA19125#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Foulet. A Bibliography of Medieval French Literature for College Libraries. 1915 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=httNAQAAIAAJ]
*Kirsop. The Bibliography of French Literary History: Progress, Problems, Projects. 1964. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Xt7nAAAAMAAJ]
*Jaffe. Bibliography of French Literature in American Magazines in the 18th Century. Michigan State College Press. 1951. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Cy7GGsr1NI8C]
*Raimbert. French Literature in Mauritius (1800-1979): A Select Bibliography in the City Library of Port Louis. 1980 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eQYpAQAAIAAJ]
*French Literature in Early American Translation: A Bibliographical Survey of Books and Pamphlets Printed in the United States from 1668 Through 1820. 1977. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CYI0AQAAIAAJ]
History:
*Cambridge History of French Literature
*Coward. A History of French Literature: From Chanson de geste to Cinema. 2002. Paperback 2004. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K8uS9vLpwuYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Hollier. A New History of French Literature. 1989. 1994. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nGQOodBVG9YC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Cazamian. A History of French Literature. Clarendon Press.1955. Reprinted 1967. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=W5PwAAAAMAAJ]
*Nitze and Dargan. A History of French Literature: From the Earliest Times to the Present. 1930. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QT0nAAAAMAAJ]
*Butler. A History of French Literature. 1923. Reissued 1966. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sPAoAAAAYAAJ]
*Dowden. A History of French Literature. (Literatures of the World). 1900 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XWdcAAAAMAAJ]
*Wright. A History of French Literature. (Oxford French series). [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_O0oAAAAYAAJ]
*Schwarz. An Outline History of French Literature. 1924. 1932. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9_fnAAAAMAAJ]
*Demogeot. History of French Literature. Adapted from the French by Bridge. 1874. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LgxONYxlEogC&pg=PP9#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Brunetière. Manual of the History of French Literature. 1898. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WOHnAAAAMAAJ]
*Brereton. A Short History of French Literature. 1954. 2nd Ed:1976. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DegoAAAAYAAJ]
*Bisson. A Short History of French Literature: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day. 1943. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TLQywgEACAAJ]
*Hudson and Jack. A Short History of French Literature. 1919 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8xIPAAAAQAAJ]
*Saintsbury. A Short History of French Literature. 1882. 2nd Ed: 1884. 7th Ed: 1917 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WDoTAAAAMAAJ] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AWFcAAAAMAAJ]
*Finch. French Literature: A Cultural History. 2010. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8L0Z8uYUWj0C&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Prendergast. History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century. 2017. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2QtpDQAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Laun. History of French Literature: From the Classical Renaissance until the End of the Reign of Louis XIV. 1883. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bdZEAQAAIAAJ]
*Farrant. Introduction to Nineteenth-Century French Literature. 2007. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=m4HjBAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Vinet. History of French Literature in the Eighteenth Century. Translated by Bryce. 1854. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5M803wEuBswC&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet. A New History of Medieval French Literature. Translated by Sara Preisig. 2011. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=h42MQw6TfAcC&pg=PT3#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Konta. The History of French Literature: From the Oath of Strasburg to Chanticler. 1914. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=g2FcAAAAMAAJ]
*Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature
*Holmes. A History of Old French Literature: From the origins to 1300. 1938. Revised Ed: 1962. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0UxcAAAAMAAJ]
*Sainstbury. A History of the French Novel (to the Close of the 19th Century). 1919. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GAxJAQAAIAAJ]
==Japanese==
Kokubungaku and nihonbungaku
*Tomoko Aoyama. "From national literature to multicultural literature in Japanese language". Kaori Okano and Yoshio Sugimoto (eds). Rethinking Japanese Studies: Eurocentrism and the Asia-Pacific Region. Routledge Contemporary Japan Series. Chapter 4. pp [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sEcrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA53#v=onepage&q&f=false 53] to 72.
*Ryōzō Matsumoto. Japanese Literature New and Old. Hokuseido Press. 1966. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EzftWTtGXzgC]
*Epiphanius Wilson. Japanese Literature: Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan. 1900. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Iy4NAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Bibliography
*Modern Japanese Literature in Western Translations: A Bibliography. International House of Japan Library. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WZ7QAAAAMAAJ]
Periodicals
*Japanese Literature Today [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NyYHAQAAIAAJ]
Reviewed
*Donald Richie. Japanese Literature Reviewed. 2003. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ejJmAAAAMAAJ]
History
*Shuichi Kato. A History of Japanese Literature: From the Man'yōshū to Modern Times. New Abridged Edition. Japan Library. 1997. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wUxOuD0NS5kC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Edward Putzar. Japanese Literature: A Historical Outline. University of Arizona Press. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2kiBAAAAIAAJ]
*W G Aston. A History of Japanese Literature. (Literatures of the World). 1903. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=T4EMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Contemporary
*Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai (Japan Cultural Society). Introduction to Contemporary Japanese Literature: Synopese of Major Works: 1956-1970. University of Tokyo Press. 1972. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XPQkHx6wR4IC]
Modern
*Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature. 2016. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EMpJDAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*J Thomas Rimer and Van C Gessel (eds). The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: Abridged. 2011. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VrEYtVFv67oC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false vol 1].
*Karatani Kōjin. Origins of Modern Japanese Literature. 1993. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hPJO2vEQgjYC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Kan Kikuchi. History and Trends of Modern Japanese Literature. Tokyo. 1936. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TU4DAAAAMAAJ]
Meiji and Taisho
*Kimura Ki (editor and compiler). Japanese Literature: Manners and Customs in the Meiji-Taishó Era. Ōbunsha. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rBQrAAAAIAAJ]
Early modern
*Haruo Shirane (ed). Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900. Abridged Edition. 2008. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SN72QCVBpVAC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Classical
*The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BSmMbQhafJoC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Introduction to Classic Japanese Literature. Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai. 1948. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WJAPAAAAYAAJ]
Traditional
*Haruo Shirane (ed). Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600. 2007. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LsHfIsIXgEgC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Literary criticism; Literary studies
*Seth Jacobowitz and Jonathan E Abel (eds). Modern Japanese Literary Studies. 2026. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=s-_AEQAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Studies in Modern Japanese Literature: Essays and Translations in Honor of Edwin McClellan. 1997. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_5EPAAAAYAAJ]
Anthology
*Donald Keene. Anthology of Japanese Literature from the earliest era to the mid-nineteenth century. Grove Press. 1955. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9h8tAAAAMAAJ] Great Britain. 1956. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LCxkAAAAMAAJ]. Evergreen Ed: 1960. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rumBAAAAIAAJ]
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{{Bibliography}}
See also [[Universal Bibliography/Bibliography|Bibliography]]
This part of the [[Universal Bibliography]] is a bibliography of literature.
See [[s:Category:Literature]], [[s:Category:History of literature]], [[w:Bibliography of encyclopedias: literature]] and [[w:Category:Works about literature]]
==World==
*Cassell's Encyclopaedia of World Literature. 1953. 2nd Ed: 1973. vol 1 (histories and general articles): [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=soIYAAAAIAAJ]. vol 3: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AIEYAAAAIAAJ]. Commentary: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Utcb32E7rsMC&pg=PA197#v=onepage&q&f=false].
*Damrosch. What is World Literature? 2003. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yY-17mtp9R8C&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Series:
*Edmund Gosse (ed). Literatures of the World. D Appleton and Co [https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:A_history_of_Bohemian_literature.pdf/444]
==English==
*Bateson. Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. 1940. Watson, Supplement 1957.
*Concise Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature
*New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature
*Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature. Cambridge University
*Ewen. Bibliography of Eighteenth Century English Literature. Columbia University. 1935
*Marcuse. A Reference Guide for English Studies. University of Calfornia. 1990
*Bracken. Reference Works in British and American Literature. Libraries Unlimited. 1998
*Kennedy and Sands. A Concise Bibliography for Students of English. Stanford University
*Pelican Guide to English Literature
*[[w:The Cambridge History of English and American Literature|Cambridge History of English and American Literature]]
*[[s:The Cambridge History of English Literature|Cambridge History of English Literature]]
*Concise Cambridge History of English Literature
*New Cambridge History of English Literature
*Oxford History of English Literature
*Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature
*Short Oxford History of English Literature
*Routledge History of Literature in English
*Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature
*Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature
*Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature
*Cambridge History of Victorian Literature
*Cambridge History of Twentieth Century English Literature
*[[s:The Cambridge History of American Literature|Cambridge History of American Literature]]
Periodicals
*Liverpool Magazine (1890)
*Literary Garner (1835)
===United States===
See [[w:Category:American literature by state]]
*Dershem. An Outline of American State Literature. 1921
Arizona:
*Joseph Amasa Munk, History of Arizona Literature, 1925
*Mary G Boyer, Arizona in Literature, 1935
*Etulain, "Contours of Culture in Arizona and the Modern West" in Luey and Stowe, Arizona at Seventy-five, 1987
*Diaz, "A Bibliography of Bibliographies Relating to the History and Literature of Arizona and New Mexico" (1958) 14 Arizona Quarterly 197
Colorado:
*Eugene Parsons, "Colorado Literature" in Stone, History of Colorado, 1918, volume 1, chapter 42, p 877 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-uVYAAAAMAAJ]
*Levette J Davidson, "The Literature of Colorado" in Hafen. Colorado and Its People: A Narrative and Topical History of the Centennial State. Volume 2. Chapter 8. Page 225 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sncXAAAAIAAJ]
*Fritz. "Literature". Colorado, the Centennial State. 1941. p 417 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EU0UAAAAYAAJ]
*"Books and Writers". Colorado, a Guide to the Highest State. 1941. p 96 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3o8GAQAAIAAJ]
*Eugene Parsons, "The Study of Colorado Literature" (1918) Colorado School Journal, vols 34-35, p 24 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QxNRAQAAMAAJ]
*"A Plea for the Study of Colorado Literature" (1918) The Trail: A Magazine "for Colorado", vol 11, p 12 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K7QTAAAAYAAJ]
Oregon:
*Powers, Alfred. History of Oregon Literature. Metropolitan Press. 1935 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JzELAAAAMAAJ]
*Horner, John B. Oregon Literature. 1899 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3ecWSpoFMcQC&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
==French==
See [[s:Category:French literature]]
Bibliographies and bibliographical works:
*A Critical Bibliography of French Literature. Syracuse University Press. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IFJQl7eUrg4C&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false vol 5]
*Bassan, Breed and Spinelli. An Annotated Bibliography of French Language and Literature. 2nd Ed: 1976 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BdkaAAAAMAAJ]
*French XX Bibliography: A Bibliography for the Study of French Literature and Culture since 1885. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VxVxFxyDOmkC&pg=PA19125#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Foulet. A Bibliography of Medieval French Literature for College Libraries. 1915 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=httNAQAAIAAJ]
*Kirsop. The Bibliography of French Literary History: Progress, Problems, Projects. 1964. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Xt7nAAAAMAAJ]
*Jaffe. Bibliography of French Literature in American Magazines in the 18th Century. Michigan State College Press. 1951. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Cy7GGsr1NI8C]
*Raimbert. French Literature in Mauritius (1800-1979): A Select Bibliography in the City Library of Port Louis. 1980 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eQYpAQAAIAAJ]
*French Literature in Early American Translation: A Bibliographical Survey of Books and Pamphlets Printed in the United States from 1668 Through 1820. 1977. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CYI0AQAAIAAJ]
History:
*Cambridge History of French Literature
*Coward. A History of French Literature: From Chanson de geste to Cinema. 2002. Paperback 2004. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K8uS9vLpwuYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Hollier. A New History of French Literature. 1989. 1994. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nGQOodBVG9YC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Cazamian. A History of French Literature. Clarendon Press.1955. Reprinted 1967. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=W5PwAAAAMAAJ]
*Nitze and Dargan. A History of French Literature: From the Earliest Times to the Present. 1930. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QT0nAAAAMAAJ]
*Butler. A History of French Literature. 1923. Reissued 1966. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sPAoAAAAYAAJ]
*Dowden. A History of French Literature. (Literatures of the World). 1900 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XWdcAAAAMAAJ]
*Wright. A History of French Literature. (Oxford French series). [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_O0oAAAAYAAJ]
*Schwarz. An Outline History of French Literature. 1924. 1932. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9_fnAAAAMAAJ]
*Demogeot. History of French Literature. Adapted from the French by Bridge. 1874. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LgxONYxlEogC&pg=PP9#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Brunetière. Manual of the History of French Literature. 1898. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WOHnAAAAMAAJ]
*Brereton. A Short History of French Literature. 1954. 2nd Ed:1976. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DegoAAAAYAAJ]
*Bisson. A Short History of French Literature: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day. 1943. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TLQywgEACAAJ]
*Hudson and Jack. A Short History of French Literature. 1919 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8xIPAAAAQAAJ]
*Saintsbury. A Short History of French Literature. 1882. 2nd Ed: 1884. 7th Ed: 1917 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WDoTAAAAMAAJ] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AWFcAAAAMAAJ]
*Finch. French Literature: A Cultural History. 2010. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8L0Z8uYUWj0C&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Prendergast. History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century. 2017. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2QtpDQAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Laun. History of French Literature: From the Classical Renaissance until the End of the Reign of Louis XIV. 1883. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bdZEAQAAIAAJ]
*Farrant. Introduction to Nineteenth-Century French Literature. 2007. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=m4HjBAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Vinet. History of French Literature in the Eighteenth Century. Translated by Bryce. 1854. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5M803wEuBswC&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet. A New History of Medieval French Literature. Translated by Sara Preisig. 2011. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=h42MQw6TfAcC&pg=PT3#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Konta. The History of French Literature: From the Oath of Strasburg to Chanticler. 1914. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=g2FcAAAAMAAJ]
*Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature
*Holmes. A History of Old French Literature: From the origins to 1300. 1938. Revised Ed: 1962. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0UxcAAAAMAAJ]
*Sainstbury. A History of the French Novel (to the Close of the 19th Century). 1919. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GAxJAQAAIAAJ]
==Japanese==
*Ryōzō Matsumoto. Japanese Literature New and Old. Hokuseido Press. 1966. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EzftWTtGXzgC]
*Epiphanius Wilson. Japanese Literature: Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan. 1900. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Iy4NAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Bibliography
*Modern Japanese Literature in Western Translations: A Bibliography. International House of Japan Library. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WZ7QAAAAMAAJ]
Periodicals
*Japanese Literature Today [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NyYHAQAAIAAJ]
Kokubungaku and nihonbungaku
*Tomoko Aoyama. "From national literature to multicultural literature in Japanese language". Kaori Okano and Yoshio Sugimoto (eds). Rethinking Japanese Studies: Eurocentrism and the Asia-Pacific Region. Routledge Contemporary Japan Series. Chapter 4. pp [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sEcrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA53#v=onepage&q&f=false 53] to 72.
Reviewed
*Donald Richie. Japanese Literature Reviewed. 2003. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ejJmAAAAMAAJ]
History
*Shuichi Kato. A History of Japanese Literature: From the Man'yōshū to Modern Times. New Abridged Edition. Japan Library. 1997. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wUxOuD0NS5kC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Edward Putzar. Japanese Literature: A Historical Outline. University of Arizona Press. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2kiBAAAAIAAJ]
*W G Aston. A History of Japanese Literature. (Literatures of the World). 1903. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=T4EMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Contemporary
*Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai (Japan Cultural Society). Introduction to Contemporary Japanese Literature: Synopese of Major Works: 1956-1970. University of Tokyo Press. 1972. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XPQkHx6wR4IC]
Modern
*Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature. 2016. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EMpJDAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*J Thomas Rimer and Van C Gessel (eds). The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: Abridged. 2011. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VrEYtVFv67oC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false vol 1].
*Karatani Kōjin. Origins of Modern Japanese Literature. 1993. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hPJO2vEQgjYC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Kan Kikuchi. History and Trends of Modern Japanese Literature. Tokyo. 1936. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TU4DAAAAMAAJ]
Meiji and Taisho
*Kimura Ki (editor and compiler). Japanese Literature: Manners and Customs in the Meiji-Taishó Era. Ōbunsha. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rBQrAAAAIAAJ]
Early modern
*Haruo Shirane (ed). Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900. Abridged Edition. 2008. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SN72QCVBpVAC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Classical
*The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BSmMbQhafJoC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Introduction to Classic Japanese Literature. Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai. 1948. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WJAPAAAAYAAJ]
Traditional
*Haruo Shirane (ed). Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600. 2007. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LsHfIsIXgEgC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Literary criticism; Literary studies
*Seth Jacobowitz and Jonathan E Abel (eds). Modern Japanese Literary Studies. 2026. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=s-_AEQAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Studies in Modern Japanese Literature: Essays and Translations in Honor of Edwin McClellan. 1997. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_5EPAAAAYAAJ]
Anthology
*Donald Keene. Anthology of Japanese Literature from the earliest era to the mid-nineteenth century. Grove Press. 1955. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9h8tAAAAMAAJ] Great Britain. 1956. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LCxkAAAAMAAJ]. Evergreen Ed: 1960. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rumBAAAAIAAJ]
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{{Bibliography}}
See also [[Universal Bibliography/Bibliography|Bibliography]]
This part of the [[Universal Bibliography]] is a bibliography of literature.
See [[s:Category:Literature]], [[s:Category:History of literature]], [[w:Bibliography of encyclopedias: literature]] and [[w:Category:Works about literature]]
==World==
*Cassell's Encyclopaedia of World Literature. 1953. 2nd Ed: 1973. vol 1 (histories and general articles): [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=soIYAAAAIAAJ]. vol 3: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AIEYAAAAIAAJ]. Commentary: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Utcb32E7rsMC&pg=PA197#v=onepage&q&f=false].
*Damrosch. What is World Literature? 2003. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yY-17mtp9R8C&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Series:
*Edmund Gosse (ed). Literatures of the World. D Appleton and Co [https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:A_history_of_Bohemian_literature.pdf/444]
==English==
*Bateson. Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. 1940. Watson, Supplement 1957.
*Concise Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature
*New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature
*Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature. Cambridge University
*Ewen. Bibliography of Eighteenth Century English Literature. Columbia University. 1935
*Marcuse. A Reference Guide for English Studies. University of Calfornia. 1990
*Bracken. Reference Works in British and American Literature. Libraries Unlimited. 1998
*Kennedy and Sands. A Concise Bibliography for Students of English. Stanford University
*Pelican Guide to English Literature
*[[w:The Cambridge History of English and American Literature|Cambridge History of English and American Literature]]
*[[s:The Cambridge History of English Literature|Cambridge History of English Literature]]
*Concise Cambridge History of English Literature
*New Cambridge History of English Literature
*Oxford History of English Literature
*Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature
*Short Oxford History of English Literature
*Routledge History of Literature in English
*Cambridge History of Early Medieval English Literature
*Cambridge History of Medieval English Literature
*Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature
*Cambridge History of Victorian Literature
*Cambridge History of Twentieth Century English Literature
*[[s:The Cambridge History of American Literature|Cambridge History of American Literature]]
Periodicals
*Liverpool Magazine (1890)
*Literary Garner (1835)
===United States===
See [[w:Category:American literature by state]]
*Dershem. An Outline of American State Literature. 1921
Arizona:
*Joseph Amasa Munk, History of Arizona Literature, 1925
*Mary G Boyer, Arizona in Literature, 1935
*Etulain, "Contours of Culture in Arizona and the Modern West" in Luey and Stowe, Arizona at Seventy-five, 1987
*Diaz, "A Bibliography of Bibliographies Relating to the History and Literature of Arizona and New Mexico" (1958) 14 Arizona Quarterly 197
Colorado:
*Eugene Parsons, "Colorado Literature" in Stone, History of Colorado, 1918, volume 1, chapter 42, p 877 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-uVYAAAAMAAJ]
*Levette J Davidson, "The Literature of Colorado" in Hafen. Colorado and Its People: A Narrative and Topical History of the Centennial State. Volume 2. Chapter 8. Page 225 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sncXAAAAIAAJ]
*Fritz. "Literature". Colorado, the Centennial State. 1941. p 417 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EU0UAAAAYAAJ]
*"Books and Writers". Colorado, a Guide to the Highest State. 1941. p 96 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3o8GAQAAIAAJ]
*Eugene Parsons, "The Study of Colorado Literature" (1918) Colorado School Journal, vols 34-35, p 24 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QxNRAQAAMAAJ]
*"A Plea for the Study of Colorado Literature" (1918) The Trail: A Magazine "for Colorado", vol 11, p 12 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K7QTAAAAYAAJ]
Oregon:
*Powers, Alfred. History of Oregon Literature. Metropolitan Press. 1935 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JzELAAAAMAAJ]
*Horner, John B. Oregon Literature. 1899 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3ecWSpoFMcQC&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
==French==
See [[s:Category:French literature]]
Bibliographies and bibliographical works:
*A Critical Bibliography of French Literature. Syracuse University Press. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=IFJQl7eUrg4C&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false vol 5]
*Bassan, Breed and Spinelli. An Annotated Bibliography of French Language and Literature. 2nd Ed: 1976 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BdkaAAAAMAAJ]
*French XX Bibliography: A Bibliography for the Study of French Literature and Culture since 1885. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VxVxFxyDOmkC&pg=PA19125#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Foulet. A Bibliography of Medieval French Literature for College Libraries. 1915 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=httNAQAAIAAJ]
*Kirsop. The Bibliography of French Literary History: Progress, Problems, Projects. 1964. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Xt7nAAAAMAAJ]
*Jaffe. Bibliography of French Literature in American Magazines in the 18th Century. Michigan State College Press. 1951. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Cy7GGsr1NI8C]
*Raimbert. French Literature in Mauritius (1800-1979): A Select Bibliography in the City Library of Port Louis. 1980 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=eQYpAQAAIAAJ]
*French Literature in Early American Translation: A Bibliographical Survey of Books and Pamphlets Printed in the United States from 1668 Through 1820. 1977. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CYI0AQAAIAAJ]
History:
*Cambridge History of French Literature
*Coward. A History of French Literature: From Chanson de geste to Cinema. 2002. Paperback 2004. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K8uS9vLpwuYC&lpg=PP1&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Hollier. A New History of French Literature. 1989. 1994. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nGQOodBVG9YC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Cazamian. A History of French Literature. Clarendon Press.1955. Reprinted 1967. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=W5PwAAAAMAAJ]
*Nitze and Dargan. A History of French Literature: From the Earliest Times to the Present. 1930. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QT0nAAAAMAAJ]
*Butler. A History of French Literature. 1923. Reissued 1966. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sPAoAAAAYAAJ]
*Dowden. A History of French Literature. (Literatures of the World). 1900 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XWdcAAAAMAAJ]
*Wright. A History of French Literature. (Oxford French series). [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_O0oAAAAYAAJ]
*Schwarz. An Outline History of French Literature. 1924. 1932. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9_fnAAAAMAAJ]
*Demogeot. History of French Literature. Adapted from the French by Bridge. 1874. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LgxONYxlEogC&pg=PP9#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Brunetière. Manual of the History of French Literature. 1898. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WOHnAAAAMAAJ]
*Brereton. A Short History of French Literature. 1954. 2nd Ed:1976. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DegoAAAAYAAJ]
*Bisson. A Short History of French Literature: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day. 1943. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TLQywgEACAAJ]
*Hudson and Jack. A Short History of French Literature. 1919 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8xIPAAAAQAAJ]
*Saintsbury. A Short History of French Literature. 1882. 2nd Ed: 1884. 7th Ed: 1917 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WDoTAAAAMAAJ] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AWFcAAAAMAAJ]
*Finch. French Literature: A Cultural History. 2010. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8L0Z8uYUWj0C&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Prendergast. History of Modern French Literature: From the Sixteenth Century to the Twentieth Century. 2017. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2QtpDQAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Laun. History of French Literature: From the Classical Renaissance until the End of the Reign of Louis XIV. 1883. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bdZEAQAAIAAJ]
*Farrant. Introduction to Nineteenth-Century French Literature. 2007. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=m4HjBAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Vinet. History of French Literature in the Eighteenth Century. Translated by Bryce. 1854. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5M803wEuBswC&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet. A New History of Medieval French Literature. Translated by Sara Preisig. 2011. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=h42MQw6TfAcC&pg=PT3#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Konta. The History of French Literature: From the Oath of Strasburg to Chanticler. 1914. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=g2FcAAAAMAAJ]
*Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature
*Holmes. A History of Old French Literature: From the origins to 1300. 1938. Revised Ed: 1962. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0UxcAAAAMAAJ]
*Sainstbury. A History of the French Novel (to the Close of the 19th Century). 1919. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GAxJAQAAIAAJ]
==Japanese==
*Ryōzō Matsumoto. Japanese Literature New and Old. Hokuseido Press. 1966. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EzftWTtGXzgC]
*J Ingram Bryan. The Literature of Japan. 1929. Kennikat Press. Port Washington. Reissued 1970. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BwazAAAAIAAJ]
*Clay MacCauley. Japanese Literature. 1898. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9nYuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Epiphanius Wilson. Japanese Literature: Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan. 1900. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Iy4NAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Bibliography
*Modern Japanese Literature in Western Translations: A Bibliography. International House of Japan Library. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WZ7QAAAAMAAJ]
Periodicals
*Japanese Literature Today [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NyYHAQAAIAAJ]
Kokubungaku and nihonbungaku
*Tomoko Aoyama. "From national literature to multicultural literature in Japanese language". Kaori Okano and Yoshio Sugimoto (eds). Rethinking Japanese Studies: Eurocentrism and the Asia-Pacific Region. Routledge Contemporary Japan Series. Chapter 4. pp [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sEcrDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA53#v=onepage&q&f=false 53] to 72.
Reviewed
*Donald Richie. Japanese Literature Reviewed. 2003. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ejJmAAAAMAAJ]
History
*Shuichi Kato. A History of Japanese Literature: From the Man'yōshū to Modern Times. New Abridged Edition. Japan Library. 1997. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wUxOuD0NS5kC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Edward Putzar. Japanese Literature: A Historical Outline. University of Arizona Press. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2kiBAAAAIAAJ]
*W G Aston. A History of Japanese Literature. (Literatures of the World). 1903. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=T4EMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Contemporary
*Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai (Japan Cultural Society). Introduction to Contemporary Japanese Literature: Synopese of Major Works: 1956-1970. University of Tokyo Press. 1972. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XPQkHx6wR4IC]
Modern
*Routledge Handbook of Modern Japanese Literature. 2016. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=EMpJDAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*J Thomas Rimer and Van C Gessel (eds). The Columbia Anthology of Modern Japanese Literature: Abridged. 2011. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VrEYtVFv67oC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false vol 1].
*Karatani Kōjin. Origins of Modern Japanese Literature. 1993. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hPJO2vEQgjYC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Kan Kikuchi. History and Trends of Modern Japanese Literature. Tokyo. 1936. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TU4DAAAAMAAJ]
Meiji and Taisho
*Kimura Ki (editor and compiler). Japanese Literature: Manners and Customs in the Meiji-Taishó Era. Ōbunsha. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rBQrAAAAIAAJ]
Early modern
*Haruo Shirane (ed). Early Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900. Abridged Edition. 2008. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=SN72QCVBpVAC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Classical
*The Princeton Companion to Classical Japanese Literature [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BSmMbQhafJoC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Introduction to Classic Japanese Literature. Kokusai Bunka Shinkokai. 1948. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WJAPAAAAYAAJ]
Traditional
*Haruo Shirane (ed). Traditional Japanese Literature: An Anthology, Beginnings to 1600. 2007. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LsHfIsIXgEgC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Literary criticism; Literary studies
*Seth Jacobowitz and Jonathan E Abel (eds). Modern Japanese Literary Studies. 2026. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=s-_AEQAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Studies in Modern Japanese Literature: Essays and Translations in Honor of Edwin McClellan. 1997. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_5EPAAAAYAAJ]
Anthology
*Donald Keene. Anthology of Japanese Literature from the earliest era to the mid-nineteenth century. Grove Press. 1955. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9h8tAAAAMAAJ] Great Britain. 1956. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=LCxkAAAAMAAJ]. Evergreen Ed: 1960. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rumBAAAAIAAJ]
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== Social media landscape ==
[[Social Media|Social media]] emerged alongside widespread public access to the internet in the late 1990’s, beginning with the profile uploading service Six Degrees. In the following decade, blogs, networking sites, and social networking services such as Linkedin, Myspace, and Friendster emerged<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://online.maryville.edu/blog/evolution-social-media/|title=The Evolution of Social Media: How Did It Begin, and Where Could It Go Next?|last=Wordpress|first=2U|date=2020-05-28|website=Maryville University Online|language=en-US|access-date=2024-04-08}}</ref>. Today, social media refers to the interactions among users who create, share, and exchange information in virtual networks. Social media is used for a myriad of reasons, including socializing, marketing, acquiring news and other information, professional networking, etc<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://communications.tufts.edu/marketing-and-branding/social-media-overview/|title=Social Media Overview|website=Communications|language=en|access-date=2024-04-08}}</ref>. Social media is primarily characterized by its reliance on user-generated content, allowing for content creation alongside the mass consumption of content. In addition, social interacts through social media take place in real time, contrary to other forms of communication, whether analog, like letters, or digital, like email<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Polanco-Levicán|first=Karina|last2=Salvo-Garrido|first2=Sonia|date=2022-07-20|title=Understanding Social Media Literacy: A Systematic Review of the Concept and Its Competences|url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9325204/|journal=International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health|volume=19|issue=14|pages=8807|doi=10.3390/ijerph19148807|issn=1661-7827|pmc=9325204|pmid=35886657}}</ref>.
'''Effects and Drawbacks'''
Users on social media consume content that is filtered, whether willingly filtered by oneself or filtered through the use of algorithms, which often leads to confirmation bias. In addition, users also choose who they interact with, which enables the forming of isolated groups who become further polarized with through confirmation bias and who often foster a hatred of those outside them. In addition, user-generated aspect of social media, which lacks any kind of fact-checking or verification system, quickly leads to the dissemination of fake news and misinformation, which can manipulate people’s beliefs. Algorithms also prefer fake news, which is reactionary and controversial, making it go viral very easily. Misinformation or fake news can lead to further polarization, either contributing to confirmation bias or a hatred of those outside them<ref name=":0" />.
Social media can often create a toxic culture of comparison and competition, where individuals selectively choose the aspects of their life to present online, creating a false narrative that others then compare themselves too. Features such as filters and photo editing tools play into this false narrative, allowing for images on social media to be edited and manipulated and creating unrealistic beauty standards<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://psychcentral.com/health/how-the-media-affects-body-image|title=Social Media and Body Image: What's the Link?|date=2016-06-17|website=Psych Central|language=en|access-date=2024-04-08}}</ref>. This often leads users into feeling insecure of their own bodies, taking a negative toll on their physical and mental health. By changing the perception of one’s body, the proliferation of idealized and manipulated appearances on social media has been known to cause eating disorders and body dysmorphia<ref name=":0" />. Research has shown that social media use correlates with experiencing body dissatisfaction and dietary restraint<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://research.northeastern.edu/from-social-media-to-body-image-and-back-rachel-rodgers-reveals-the-complexity-of-this-bi-directional-relationship/|title=From social media to body image and back|date=2024-01-16|website=Division of Research|language=en-US|access-date=2024-04-08}}</ref>.
Through social media has significant negative drawbacks, the use of social media is not inherently negative and can be used to increase social capital, develop friendships, and reduce feelings of loneliness through the fraternization of like-minded individuals. Social media also enables group collaboration and the dialogue of a large group who produce content. Such dialogue has been known to produce positive results, such as the emergence of social media activism in movements like the Arab Spring Revolution or the [[#MeToo]] movement.
== Social Media literacy ==
'''Development of Social Media Literacy'''
Social media literacy is a form of [[media literacy]], which is understood as the skills and competencies required to critically engage with media through the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, create, and participate with media in a variety of forms. One of the core aspects of media literacy is its emphasis on promoting critical thinking, enabling students to understand how media is produced, identify bias, and distinguish misinformation and fact. However, much of media literacy and the education that surrounds it focuses on traditional media such as advertisements and news. As social media has transformed the mass media landscape, it has prompted an update to traditional media literacy literature and theory<ref name=":0" />.
[[Digital literacy]] is one approach to redefining media literacy, and encompasses the competences around the use of “digital media, computers, and information and communication technologies.” Its importance is emphasized by the new era known as the ‘information age,’ where individuals are permanently receiving messages from a variety of digital sources and where information is constantly being digitized, promoting the need to understand how to navigate the digital space<ref name=":0" />.
However, digital literacy does not develop a critical approach to digital media, an aspect critical to media literacy. Thus, many consider social media literacy the adequate update to media literacy.
'''Components of Social Media Literacy'''
Like media literacy, social media literacy emphasizing critical thinking in relation to social media content. The critical component of social media includes understanding, analyzing, evaluation, synthesizing, and interpreting social media content.<ref name=":0" /> Social media literacy encompasses the same critical thinking skills as media literacy, allowing students to identify bias and misinformation in media, while also promoting competencies specific to the social media landscape, such as how to use social media, identifying scams and frauds, and maintaining online etiquette. <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.socialplug.io/blog/social-media-literacy|title=What is Social Media Literacy, and How to Develop It?|website=www.socialplug.io|access-date=2024-04-08}}</ref>
For users that create content, the sharing of information elicits an understanding of the implications of sharing personal information and data and the formation of a digital footprint, as the information put out onto the web is used by social media platforms and shared with other companies. Content on social media is also known to have an indefinite lifespan, despite attempts to delete it or erase it, meaning that potentially harmful, controversial, or ill-intentioned content can have negative repercussions on one’s reputation. Social media literacy develops a critical understanding of these implications, enabling users to post information that is not potentially harmful to oneself or to other social media users.
Using social media also requires an contextual understanding of social media within the broader economic and social digital landscape of digital capitalism, which describes the economic relationship between companies and users who have redefined digital data as a form of capital<ref>https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/01634437211053766#:~:text=Social%20media%20can%20be%20put,commodification%20(Baudrillard%2C%202016)</ref>. In addition to accumulating and selling data, as social media companies build algorithms with the intent of generating profit and capitalizing off of users’ attentions. As social media companies essentially derive profit from keeping their users engaged on their platform for as long as possible, maximizing the number of ads consumers see and the amount of content they interact with, social media platforms aim to design algorithms that specifically appeal to a user’s interests.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://georgetownlawtechreview.org/social-media-algorithms-why-you-see-what-you-see/GLTR-12-2017/|title=Social Media Algorithms: Why You See What You See|date=2017-12-04|website=Georgetown Law Technology Review|language=en-us|access-date=2024-04-08}}</ref> However, issues have arisen as these algorithms push users into products and lifestyles and create echo chambers and fragmentation through confirmation bias.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.michigandaily.com/opinion/social-media-prioritizes-profit-over-people/|title=Social media prioritizes profit over people|last=Muha|first=Tom|date=2022-10-09|website=The Michigan Daily|language=en-US|access-date=2024-04-08}}</ref>
Building off of digital literacy, social media literacy also encompasses technical competences that include the ability to create and share content as well as the ability to navigate the social media scene by finding information, utilizing functions such as privacy settings, creating social media accounts, and making videos.<ref name=":0" />
'''Impacts of Social Media Literacy'''
Social media literacy aims to uplift the positive aspects and benefits of social media while providing users with strategies to mitigate or protect against negative aspects such as damaging trends, cyberbullying, or polarization. Thus, the development of social media competences can have a positive effect on uplifting mental and physical health<ref name=":0" />. In addition, social media literacy was found to have a positive impact on student engagement in the online learning environment by promoting technical competencies as well as cognitive competencies that enabled students to interpret and generate content more critically.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Tran‐Duong|first=Quoc Hoa|last2=Vo‐Thi|first2=Ngoc‐Tram|date=2023-12|title=The influence of social media literacy on student engagement in online learning|url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcal.12849|journal=Journal of Computer Assisted Learning|language=en|volume=39|issue=6|pages=1888–1901|doi=10.1111/jcal.12849|issn=0266-4909}}</ref>
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'''In the beginning'''
[[w:First_principle|First principle]], an [[w:Axiom|axiom]] is αχιωμα, considered worthy, held as [[w:Self-evident|self-evident]].
'''Eloqim'''
[[w:Physical_constant|Physical constant]]<nowiki/>s give us [[w:Law_of_nature|Laws of nature]] and [[w:Immanent_realism|immanent realism]], the intuitive and correct assumption that unity exists in the diversity of experience: that a Universe exists and can be discovered. An [[w:Omnipresence|Omnipresent]] reality and an [[w:Unmoved_mover|unmoved mover]], a basic premise of natural philosophy that enables humankind to acquire the virtue of science. It is this unique virtue which is our human nature "b'tzelem Eloqim", [[w:Imago dei]]. For more on this, see the sixth day.
'''Created the heavens and the earth'''
[[w:Ex_nihilo|ex nihilo]]
[[w:Form|form]] and [[w:Matter|matter]]
'''And the earth was Formless and Void''': [[w:Chaos_theory|Chaos theory]]
further reading on the third day.
'''There was Darkness on the face of the deep'''
A [[w:Supermassive_black_hole|Supermassive black hole]] is at the [[w:Galactic_center|galactic center]] of the [[w:Milky_way|Milky way]], named [[w:Sagittarius_A*|Sagittarius A*]]. [[w:Event_horizon|Event horizon]]. Further reading on the fourth day.
'''And the Spirit of Eloqim'''
Foundational axioms of [[w:Fluid_dynamics|fluid dynamics]] are the conservation laws, specifically, [[w:Conservation_of_mass|conservation of mass]], [[w:Conservation_of_linear_momentum|conservation of linear momentum]], and [[w:Conservation_of_energy|conservation of energy]] (also known as the [[w:First_Law_of_Thermodynamics|First Law of Thermodynamics]])
With [[w:Fluid_statics|fluid statics]], comprises the discipline of [[w:Fluid_mechanics|Fluid mechanics]].
A [[w:Liquid|liquid]] [[w:Evaporation|evaporates]] into [[w:Gas|gas]], which [[w:Condensation|condenses]] and into liquid and distills. specific heat. 3 phases of matter
'''Hovered on the Water'''
[[Chemistry/Water Chemistry, Solutions, and pH|Water chemistry:]] [[w:Hydrogen|Hydrogen]], [[w:Oxygen|Oxygen]], [[Chemistry/Water Chemistry, Solutions, and pH|solutions,]] [[w:PH|PH]], [[w:Acidity|acidity]]
Atomic theory, [[w:Atomic_orbital|Atomic orbital]], [[w:Valence_shell|valence shell]], [[w:Octet_rule|octet rule]], [[Atomic orbitals to molecular orbitals]],
[[w:Periodic_trends|periodic trends]], [[the periodic table]]
== Day One: Let there be light ==
[[w:Big_bang|Big bang]], [[big bang]]. [[w:Expansion_of_the_universe|Expansion of the universe]] proved by [[w:Einstein's_field_equations|Einstein's field equations]] in 1922. [[w:Hubble–Lemaître_law|Hubble–Lemaître law]]. Evidenced by [[w:Redshift|redshift]], a [[w:Relativistic_Doppler_effect|Relativistic Doppler effect]]. [[w:Comoving_and_proper_distances|Comoving and proper distances]], [[w:Cosmic_time|cosmic time]]. [[w:Cosmological_constant_problem|Cosmological constant]] ~= anti Gravity. Laimaitre meets Einstein at a conferene in 1927
=== [[w:Light|Light]] and [[w:Optics|Optics]] ===
refraction through a prism, and dispersion of light
focusing through a lens.
Wave-particle duality, photon
[[w:Lorentz_equations|Lorentz equations]]
lightning
combustion, fire
=== Separation from Darkness ===
A [[w:Quasars|quasar]] is an [[w:Active_galactic_nucleus|active galactic nucleus]] around a black hole. hawking radiation
[[w:Classical_electromagnetism|Classical electromagnetism]], [[w:Electromagnetic_radiation|Electromagnetic_radiation]], [[w:Electromagnetic_spectrum|Electromagnetic spectrum]]
[[w:Constitutive_equation#Electromagnetism|Constitutive_equation#Electromagnetism]]
Maxwell's equations
Law of the Conservation of Energy
Symmetry and Invariance, Special Relativity
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Schrodinger's cat
=== Prior Analytics ===
==== Arithmetic ====
[[w:Natural_numbers|Natural numbers]] are positive [[w:Integers|Integers]], the discipline of [[Discrete mathematics]], [[Number Theory|number theory]]. [[w:Fundamental_theorem_of_arithmetic|Fundamental theorem of arithmetic]]. Abelian [[w:Commutative_group|Commutative group]]
==== Ideal [[w:Synthetic_Geometry|Synthetic Geometry]] ====
[[s:Elements (Euclid)]], [[Euclid's Elements]], [[w:Euclid's Elements]], [[w:Geometry|Geometry]], [[wikibooks:Geometry/Chapter_1_-_HS|wikibooks:Geometry]],
[[w:Euclidean_space|Euclidean space]], [[w:Euclidean_group|Euclidean group]]
==== [[Linear algebra]] ====
[[w:Linear_algebra|Linear algebra]] (wp)
[[w:Linear_transformations|linear transformations]] can be represented by matrices.
A [[w:Matrix_(mathematics)|Matrix]] can represent a [[w:System_of_linear_equations|system of linear equations]]
A [[w:Basis_(mathematics)|basis]] of a vector is a [[Linearly independent/Simple properties/Fact|linearly independent]] [[w:Spanning_set|spanning set]] of the [[w:Vector_space|Vector space]]
The [[w:Determinant|Determinant]] of a matrix is the area of the parallelogram created by its linear transformation from the [[w:Standard_basis|standard basis]]
A Vector Space is [[w:Module (mathematics)|module]] over a [[w:Field (mathematics)|field]]. [[w:vector addition]] makes it an [[w:abelian group]] under addition, and [[w:scalar multiplication]] defines a [[w:ring homomorphism]] from the field {{math|''F''}} into the [[w:endomorphism ring]] of this group.
[[w:Isometry_group|Isometry group]], [[w:Galiean_group|Galiean group]], [[w:Poincare_group|Poincare group]], [[w:Four-dimensional_space|four-dimensional space]], [[w:Minkowski_space|Minkowski space]]
== Day Two: Waters Below and Waters Above ==
[[Fluid dynamics]], [[w:Constitutive_equation#Deformation_of_fluids|Constitutive_equation#Deformation_of_fluids]]
The [[w:hydrological_cycle|Hydrological cycle]] is a [[w:Biogeochemical_cycle|biogeochemical cycle]] that drives the movements of water through phase changes and processes of [[w:Evaporation|evaporation]], [[w:Transpiration|transpiration]], [[w:Condensation|condensation]], [[w:Precipitation|precipitation]], [[w:Sublimation|sublimation]], [[w:Infiltration|infiltration]], [[w:Surface_runoff|surface runoff]], and [[w:Subsurface_flow|subsurface flow]].
=== [[w:Oceanography|Oceanography]] ===
[[w:Oceanic_carbon_cycle|Oceanic carbon cycle]], [[w:Carbon|Carbon]], [[w:Organic_Chemistry|Organic Chemistry]]
[[w:Nitrogen_cycle#Marine_nitrogen_cycle|Marine nitrogen cycle]], Nitrogen
[[w:Phytoplankton|Phytoplankton]], [[w:Biological_carbon_fixation|Biological carbon fixation]]
Prokaryotic Cyanobacteria
Eukaryotic Algae, Microalgae, diatoms, giant kelp
[[photosynthesis]], [[w:Photon|photon]], [[quantum mechanics]], [[physical chemistry]]
=== [[w:Atmospheric_science|Atmospheric science]] ===
[[w:Atmospheric_carbon_cycle|Atmospheric carbon cycle]]
[[Hydraulic energy|hydraulics]]
=== [[w:Posterior_Analytics|Posterior Analytics Summary]] ===
=== Math Analysis and Calculus ===
That algebra of the [[w:Number_line#As_a_linear_continuum|real number line]] [sic] can be employed to yield results about the [[w:Linear_continuum|linear continuum of geometry]], although obvious, was formalized by the [[w:Cantor–Dedekind_axiom|Cantor–Dedekind axiom]].
[[w:Continuous_mathematics|Mathematical Analysis]] provides the rigorous proofs of [[Calculus]], pioneered by Euler's [[w:Introductio_in_analysin_infinitorum|Introductio in analysin infinitorum]], the prototype of textbooks
[[w:Continuous_function|Continuous functions]], [[Limit (mathematics)|limits]], and related theories, such as [[w:Derivative|differentiation]], [[w:Integral|integration]], [[w:Measure_(mathematics)|measure]], [[w:Infinite_sequence|infinite sequences]], [[w:Series_(mathematics)|series]], and [[w:Analytic_function|analytic functions]].<ref>[[Edwin Hewitt]] and Karl Stromberg, "Real and Abstract Analysis", Springer-Verlag, 1965</ref><ref name="Stillwell_Analysis" />
== Day Three: Sea and Dry Land, grassy herbs, trees bearing fruit and seed ==
[[w:Condensed_matter|Condensed matter]] [[w:State_of_matter#Four_fundamental_states|State of matter - Four fundamental states]]
[[w:Continuum_mechanics|Continuum mechanics]] deals with d''eformable bodies'', as opposed to rigid bodies.
differential equations that describe the behavior of such matter according to physical laws, such as mass conservation, momentum conservation, and energy conservation. Information about the specific material is expressed in constitutive relationships.
[[w:Periodic_trends|Periodic trends]]
Constitutive_equation#Transport_phenomena
Constitutive equation of transport phenomena
[[w:Constitutive_equation#Mechanical_properties_of_matter|Constitutive_equation#Mechanical_properties_of_matter]]
=== [[w:Geology|Geology]] ===
[[w:Geophysics|Geophysics]] and [[w:Hydrostatics|hydrostatics]] in study of [[Plate tectonics and the structure of the Earth's crust|Plate tectonics]], Plates are relatively [[w:Material_propterty|mechanically rigid]] and float across the ductile [[w:Asthenosphere|asthenosphere]] beneath. Lateral density variations in the [[w:Mantle_(geology)|mantle]] result in [[w:Mantle_Convection|mantle convection]] currents, the slow creeping motion of Earth's solid mantle, by [[w:Thermal_conduction|thermal conduction]] and [[w:Convection|convection]]. [[w:World_ocean|World ocean]] of [[w:Earth's_Crust|Earth's Crust]] and [[w:Lithosphere|Lithosphere]]. Theories of [[w:Elasticity_(Physics)|elasticity]], [[w:Plasticity_(Physics)|plasticity]].
[[Oceanic crust]] (also called ''[[Sima (geology)|sima]]'' from [[silicon]] and [[magnesium]]) and [[continental crust]] (''[[sial]]'' from silicon and [[aluminium]]). The composition of the two types of crust differs markedly, with [[mafic]] [[Basalt|basaltic]] rocks dominating oceanic crust, while continental crust consists principally of lower-[[density]] [[felsic]] [[Granite|granitic]] rocks.
[[w:Cascadia_subduction_zone|Cascadia subduction zone]] at the North-eastern side of the [[w:Pacific_plate|Pacific plate]] is a [[w:Divergent_boundary|divergent boundary]] with the [[w:Explorer_Plate|Explorer Plate]], the [[w:Juan_de_Fuca_Plate|Juan de Fuca Plate]] and the [[w:Gorda_Plate|Gorda Plate]] forming respectively the [[w:Explorer_Ridge|Explorer Ridge]], the [[w:Juan_de_Fuca_Ridge|Juan de Fuca Ridge]] and the [[w:Gorda_Ridge|Gorda Ridge]], intersecting with the the [[w:San_Andreas_Fault|San Andreas Fault]] system at the [[w:Mendocino_Triple_Junction|Mendocino Triple Junction]]. South, a [[w:Transform_boundary|transform boundary]] with the [[w:North_American_Plate|North American Plate]]. [[w:Continental_drift|Continental drift]], [[w:Seafloor_spreading|Seafloor spreading]]. [[w:Subduction_zone|Subduction zone]]. [[w:Cascade_Volcanic_arc|Cascade Volcanic arc]], [[w:Seattle_Fault|Seattle Fault]].
[[w:Great_Rift_Valley|Great Rift Valley]] formed from the [[w:East_African_Rift|East African Rift]] where the [[w:African_Plate|African Plate]] is in the process of splitting into two tectonic plates called the [[w:Somali_Plate|Somali Plate]] and the [[w:Nubian_Plate|Nubian Plate]], at a rate of 6–7 mm (0.24–0.28 in) per year.
[[w:Arabian_Plate|Arabian Plate]] left lateral fault boundary with the African Plate called the [[w:Dead_Sea_Transform|Dead Sea Transform]] (DST), and a divergent boundary with the African Plate called the [[w:Red_Sea_Rift|Red Sea Rift]]
[[w:Carbon-Silicate_cycle|Carbon-Silicate cycle]]: long-term transformation of [[w:Silicate|silicate]] rocks to [[w:Carbonate_rock|carbonate]] rocks by [[weathering]] and [[w:Sedimentation|sedimentation]], and the transformation of carbonate rocks back into silicate rocks by [[w:Metamorphism|metamorphism]] and [[w:Volcanism|volcanism]]
Oceanic plates composed of mostly [[w:Basalt|Basalt]].
Redox, [[w:Oxide#Metal_oxides|Oxide#Metal_oxides]] formed by [[w:Corrosion|corrosion]]
Lands: Continents, Islands, countries
=== [[w:Botany|Botany]] ===
[[w:Plant_physiology|Plant physiology]] and [[w:Plant_anatomy#Structural_divisions|Plant anatomy#Structural divisions]].
[[w:Herbaceous_plant|herbaceous plant]]<nowiki/>s are defined as a small, seed-bearing plant ([[w:Spermaophyte|spermaophyte]]) without a woody stem in which all aerial parts (i.e. above ground) die back to the ground at the end of each [[w:Growing_season|growing season]]. Usually the term refers to [[w:Perennial_plants|perennial plants]], but can also be [[w:Annual_plants|annual plants]], or [[w:Biennial_plants|biennial plants]].
[[w:Gymnosperms|Gymnosperms]] have non-encased [[w:Ovule|ovules]] in contrasts with the seeds and ovules of flowering plants (angiosperms), which are enclosed within an [[w:Ovary_(botany)|ovary]].
Grasses ([[w:Poaceae|poaceae]]) are large and nearly ubiquitous family of [[w:Monocotyledonous|monocotyledonous]] flowering plants ([[w:Angiosperms|angiosperms]]) that includes the [[w:Cereal|cereal]] grasses, [[w:Bamboos|bamboos]], and the grasses of natural [[w:Grassland|grassland]], 780 genera and 12,000 species.
Angiosperms are distinguished from [[Gymnosperm|gymnosperms]], by having [[Flower|flowers]], [[xylem]] consisting of [[Vessel element|vessel elements]] instead of [[tracheids]], [[endosperm]] within their seeds, and fruits that completely envelop the seeds.
Grasses have [[Plant stem|stems]] are hollow except at the [[Nodes (botany)|nodes]] and narrow alternate leaves borne in two ranks. The lower part of each leaf encloses the stem, forming a leaf-sheath. The leaf grows from the base of the blade, an adaptation allowing it to cope with frequent grazing. [[w:Leaf|Leaves]] are nearly always alternate and distichous (in one plane), and have parallel veins,<ref name="BSBI13" />{{rp|11}} each differentiated into a lower sheath hugging the stem and a blade with entire (i.e., smooth) margins.<ref name="BSBI13" />{{rp|11}} The leaf blades of many grasses are hardened with [[silica]] [[Phytolith|phytoliths]], which discourage grazing animals. A membranous appendage or fringe of hairs called the [[Ligule#Poaceae and Cyperaceae|ligule]] lies at the junction between sheath and blade, preventing water or insects from penetrating into the sheath.<ref name="BSBI13" />{{rp|11}} [[Flower|Flowers]] of Poaceae are characteristically arranged in [[Spikelet|spikelets]], each having one or more florets.<ref name="BSBI132" />{{rp|12}} The spikelets are further grouped into [[Raceme|panicles or spikes]]. The part of the spikelet that bears the florets is called the rachilla. A spikelet consists of two (or sometimes fewer) [[bracts]] at the base, called [[glumes]], followed by one or more florets.<ref name="BSBI132" />{{rp|13}} A floret consists of the flower surrounded by two bracts, one external—the [[Lemma (botany)|lemma]]—and one internal—the [[Palea (botany)|palea]]. The flowers are usually [[hermaphroditic]]—[[maize]] being an important exception—and mainly [[Anemophily|anemophilous]] or wind-pollinated, although insects occasionally play a role.<ref>{{Cite journal|year=1964|title=Insect Pollination of Grasses|journal=Australian Journal of Entomology|volume=3|pages=74|doi=10.1111/j.1440-6055.1964.tb00625.x|doi-access=|s2cid=264140616}}</ref> The [[perianth]] is reduced to two scales, called ''[[Lodicule|lodicules]]'',<ref name="BSBI132" />{{rp|11}} that expand and contract to spread the lemma and palea; these are generally interpreted to be modified sepals. The [[fruit]] of grasses is a [[caryopsis]], in which the seed coat is fused to the fruit wall.<ref name="BSBI132" />{{rp|16}} A [[Tiller (botany)|tiller]] is a leafy shoot other than the first shoot produced from the seed.<ref name="BSBI132" />{{rp|11}}
[[w:Dicotyledons|Dicotyledons]] have two [[w:Cotyledon|cotyledon]]<nowiki/>s, which are the embryonic leaf in seed-bearing plants, one or more of which are the first to appear from a [[w:Germination|germinating]] seed.
[[w:Terrestrial_biological_carbon_cycle|Terrestrial biological carbon cycle]]
[[w:Biochemistry|Biochemistry]]: [[w:Structural_biology|structural biology]], [[w:Enzymology|enzymology]], and [[w:Metabolism|metabolism]].
4 classes of [[w:Biomolecule|Biomolecule]]: [[w:Carbohydrates|carbohydrates]], [[w:Lipids|lipids]], [[w:Proteins|proteins]], and [[w:Nucleic_acids|nucleic acids]].
[[w:Molecular_biology|Molecular biology]]: [[w:central_dogma_of_molecular_biology|The central dogma of molecular biology]]: "DNA makes RNA, and RNA makes protein"
Fruit trees, deciduous trees, coniferous trees,
=== [[s:Posterior_Analytics_(Aristotle)|Posterior Analytics Complete]] ===
=== [[w:Analytic_Geometry|Analytic Geometry]] ===
is descriptive and uses a [[w:Coordinate_system|coordinate system]], unlike synthetic geometry which is axiomatic and constructive.
Cartography, Orienteering, Surveying
[[w:Barycentric_coordinate_system#Conversion_between_barycentric_and_Cartesian_coordinates|Barycentric_coordinate_system#Conversion_between_barycentric_and_Cartesian_coordinates]]
== Day Four: Sun, Moon, and Stars as signs for times, seasons, hours, days, and years ==
=== Astronomy and planetary science ===
The [[w:Law_of_universal_gravitation|law of universal gravitation]] and the [[w:Law_of_the_Conservation_of_Angular_momentum|Law of the Conservation of Angular momentum]] derive from
[[w:Newton’s_laws_of_motion|Newton’s laws of motion]] stated in the [[w:Philosophiæ_Naturalis_Principia_Mathematica|Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica]]
# ''Every object perseveres in its state of rest, or of uniform motion in a right line ([[w:Inertia|inertia]]), except insofar as it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed thereon.''
# ''The change of motion ([[w:Momentum|momentum]]) of an object is proportional to the force impressed; and is made in the direction of the straight line in which the force is impressed. (''[[w:Acceleration|acceleration]])
# ''To every action, there is always opposed an equal reaction; or, the mutual actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts. ([[w:Reaction_(physics)|Reaction (physics)]], [[w:Conservation_of_momentum|conservation of momentum]])''
[[w:General_Scholium|General Scholium]] to the principia declares [[w:Hypotheses_non_fingo|Hypotheses non fingo]], and argues theologically for the oneness and unity of God.
Lorentz equations, General Relativity, [[s:Relativity_(1931)|Relativity: The Special and General Theory (1931)]]
Fine tuning and magic numbers in cosmology
[[w:Nuclear_fusion|Nuclear fusion]] of [[w:Hydrogen|Hydrogen]] into [[w:Helium|Helium]] through the [[w:Proton-proton_chain|proton-proton chain]] is an example of [[w:Nuclear_transmutation|Nuclear transmutation]], main reaction of [[w:Stellar_nucleosynthesis|Stellar nucleosynthesis]] in [[w:Main_sequence_stars|Main sequence stars]], such as our [[w:Sun|Sun]] and other [[w:Yellow_dwarf|yellow dwarf]]<nowiki/>s, produces energy according to [[w:E=mc2|E=mc2]] [[w:Hertzsprung–Russell_diagram|Hertzsprung–Russell_diagram]]. These [[w:Period_1_element|Period 1 element]]<nowiki/>s obey the duet rule in a [[w:Quantum_mechanical|quantum mechanical]] description of [[w:Atomic_structure|atomic structure]], this period corresponds to the filling of the [[w:Atomic_orbital|1s orbital]]. Hypothesized by [[w:Arthur_Eddington|Arthur Eddington]] in 192x, proven in ___
[[w:Plasma|Plasma]]
[[w:Hydrostatic_equilibrium|hydrostatic equilibrium]] between [[w:Thermal_expansion|thermal expansion]] pressure and [[w:Gravitational_collapse|gravitational collapse]]
[[w:Electrostatic_repulsion|electrostatic repulsion]] (Coulomb's law)
=== Signification and calendrical calculations ===
=== [[w:Topics_(Aristotle)|Topics (Aristotle)]] ===
[[s:Organon_(Owen)/Topics|s:Topics]]
=== [[s:Mathematical_Principles_of_Natural_Philosophy|Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy]] ===
=== Differential Geometry and [[Differential Equations]] ===
A [[w:Manifold#Charts,_atlases,_and_transition_maps|Manifold]] is a [[Topology|topological space]] like a circle or sphere that can be covered by [[w:Charts_(topology)|charts]] to form an [[w:Atlas_(topology)|atlas]], wherein the individual charts approximate real Euclidean space closely enough for calculus and vector algebra to be done.
The [[w:Differential_geometry|differential geometry]] of [[w:Smooth_manifolds|smooth manifolds]], uses the techniques of [[w:Differential_calculus|differential calculus]], [[w:Integral|integral calculus]], [[linear algebra]] and [[w:Multilinear_algebra|multilinear algebra]] to study of [[w:Spherical_geometry|spherical geometry]], the [[w:Geodesy|geodesy]] of the [[Earth]], and later [[astronomy]]. he simplest examples of smooth spaces are the [[w:Differential_geometry_of_curves|plane and space curves]] and [[w:Differential_geometry_of_surfaces|surfaces]] in the three-dimensional [[w:Euclidean_space|Euclidean space]]
== Day Five: Fish, Birds, and Reptiles ==
History of Animals, Parts of Animals ([[w:Zoology|Zoology]]), [[w:Comparative_Anatomy|Comparative Anatomy]], [[w:Physiology|Physiology]], [[w:Phylogenetics|Phylogenetics]], [[w:Homologous_structures|Homologous structures]], [[w:Analogous_structures|Analogous structures]] - structures similar in different organisms because, in convergent evolution they evolved in a ''similar environment''
Evolutionary biology, Aristotelian physics, the theory of Intelligent design, criticisms thereof, [[w:Edward_Feser|Edward Feser]]: Aristotle's revenge.
'''[[Taxonomy (Biology)|Taxonomy]]''' is the study of naming, defining ([[Circumscription (taxonomy)|circumscribing]]) and classifying groups of biological [[Organism|organisms]] based on shared characteristics.
Organisms are grouped into [[w:Taxon|taxa]] (singular: taxon) and these groups are given a [[w:Taxonomic_rank|taxonomic rank]]; groups of a given rank can be aggregated to form a more inclusive group of higher rank, thus creating a taxonomic hierarchy. The principal ranks in modern use are [[Domain (biology)|domain]], [[Kingdom (biology)|kingdom]], [[phylum]] (''division'' is sometimes used in botany in place of ''phylum''), [[Class (biology)|class]], [[Order (biology)|order]], [[Family (biology)|family]], [[genus]], and [[species]]. The Swedish botanist [[Carl Linnaeus]] is regarded as the founder of the current system of taxonomy, as he developed a ranked system known as [[Linnaean taxonomy]] for categorizing organisms and [[binomial nomenclature]] for naming organisms.
''[[w:Cladistics|Cladistics]]'' is an approach in which [[Organism|organisms]] are categorized in [[Clade|clades]] based on hypotheses of most recent [[common ancestry]].
=== [[w:Aquatic_life|Aquatic life]] ===
[[w:Portal:Marine_life|Portal:Marine life]]
[[w:Marine_animals|marine animals]]
[[w:Communication_in_aquatic_animals|Communication_in_aquatic_animals]]
[[w:Filter_feeders|Filter feeders]]
condense biomass and remove excess nutrient pollution (such as nitrogen and phosphate), are therefore considered water-cleaning [[w:Ecosystem_engineer|ecosystem engineer]]<nowiki/>s. They are also important in [[w:Bioaccumulation|bioaccumulation]] and, as a result, as [[w:Indicator_organisms|indicator organisms]]. can be [[w:Sessile|sessile]], [[w:Planktonic|planktonic]], [[w:Nektonic|nektonic]] or even [[w:Neustonic|neustonic]].
[[Ecological niche|niches]] they occupy. Extant species that rely on such [[Aquatic feeding mechanisms|method of feeding]] encompass numerous [[Phylum|phyla]], including [[Poriferan|poriferans]] ([[Sponge|sponges]]), [[Cnidarian|cnidarians]] ([[jellyfish]], [[Sea pen|sea pens]] and [[Coral|corals]]), [[Arthropod|arthropods]] ([[krill]], [[Mysid|mysids]] and [[Barnacle|barnacles]]), [[Mollusc|molluscs]] ([[bivalves]], such as [[Clam|clams]], [[Scallop|scallops]] and [[Oyster|oysters]]), [[Echinoderm|echinoderms]] ([[sea lilies]])
=== Phylum [[w:Arthropods|Arthropod]] ===
[[w:Crusteaceans|Crusteaceans]] and [[w:Hexapods|hexapods]] form [[w:Pancrustacea|Pancrustacea]], a clade of arthropods.
=== [[w:Phylum_cordata|Phylum cordata]] ===
Are [[Deuterostome|deuterostomic]] [[animal]]<nowiki/>s which possess, at some point during their larval or adult stages, five distinctive physical characteristics ([[Apomorphy and synapomorphy|synapomorphies]]) that distinguish them: a [[notochord]], a [[Neural tube|hollow]] [[dorsal nerve cord]], an [[endostyle]] or [[thyroid]], [[Pharyngeal slit|pharyngeal slits]], and a post-[[Anus|anal]] [[tail]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58012425|title=The fishes of New Zealand|last=Freeborn|first=Michelle|date=2015-01-01|publisher=Te Papa Press|isbn=978-0-9941041-6-8|editor-last=Roberts|editor-first=Clive Douglas|volume=Two|pages=6|editor-last2=Stewart|editor-first2=Andrew L.|editor-last3=Struthers|editor-first3=Carl D.}}</ref> The name "chordate" comes from the first of these synapomorphies, the notochord, which plays a significant role in chordate [[body plan]] structuring and movements. Chordates are also [[Symmetry in biology#Bilateral symmetry|bilaterally symmetric]], have a [[coelom]], possess a [[Circulatory system#Closed circulatory system|closed]] [[circulatory system]], and exhibit [[Metamerism (biology)|metameric segmentation]].
=== [[w:Ichthyology|Ichthyology]] ===
[[w:Fish|Fish]] is an [[Aquatic animal|aquatic]], [[Anamniotes|anamniotic]], [[gill]]-bearing [[vertebrate]] [[animal]] with swimming [[Fish fin|fins]] and [[Craniate|a hard skull]], but lacking [[Limb (anatomy)|limbs]] with [[Digit (anatomy)|digits]]. Fish can be grouped into the more [[Basal (phylogenetics)|basal]] [[jawless fish]] and the more common [[jawed fish]], the latter including all [[Extant taxon|living]] [[Cartilaginous fish|cartilaginous]] and [[bony fish]], as well as the extinct [[Placoderm|placoderms]] and [[Acanthodian|acanthodians]]. Most fish are [[Ectotherm|cold-blooded]], their body temperature varying with the surrounding water, though some large [[Nekton|active swimmers]] like [[white shark]] and [[tuna]] can hold a higher [[core temperature]]. Many fish can [[Communication in aquatic animals#Acoustic|communicate acoustically]] with each other, such as during [[Courtship display|courtship displays]].
[[w:Diversity_of_fish|Diversity of fish]], [[w:List_of_fish|List of fish]]
=== [[w:Ornithology|Ornithology]] ===
the study of [[w:Birds|birds]]
with an [[amniotic membrane]].
''Birds, '''Aves''''' are a [[Class (biology)|class]] of [[warm-blooded]] [[Vertebrate|vertebrates]] characterised by [[Feather|feathers]], toothless beaked jaws, the [[Oviparity|laying]] of [[Eggshell|hard-shelled]] eggs, a high [[Metabolism|metabolic]] rate, a four-chambered [[heart]], and a [[Bird skeleton|strong yet lightweight skeleton]].
[[w:Avian_brain|Avian brain]]
[[w:List_of_birds|List of birds]]
=== [[w:Herpetology|Herpetology]] ===
[[w:Dinosaurs|Dinosaurs]], [[w:Fossil|Fossil]]
[[w:Reptiles|Reptiles]] are a class (lt) of [[Tetrapod|tetrapods]] with usually an [[Ectotherm|ectothermic]] ('cold-blooded') [[metabolism]] and [[Amniotic egg|amniotic development]]. Living reptiles comprise four [[Order (biology)|orders]]: Testudines ([[Turtle|turtles]]), Crocodilia ([[Crocodilia|crocodilians]]), [[Squamata]] ([[Lizard|lizards]] and [[Snake|snakes]]), and [[Rhynchocephalia]] (the [[tuatara]]). As of May 2023, about 12,000 living species of reptiles are listed in the [[Reptile Database]]. Unlike amphibians, reptiles do not have an aquatic larval stage. Most reptiles are [[w:Oviparous|oviparous]], although several species of squamates are [[w:Viviparous|viviparous]], as were some extinct aquatic clades.
[[w:Brain#Reptiles|Brain#Reptiles]]: The [[w:Hindbrain|hindbrain]] coordinates and integrates [[w:Afferent_nerves|sensory and motor inputs]] and outputs responsible for, but not limited to, walking, swimming, or flying. It contains input and [[w:Efferent_nerves|output axons]] interconnecting the spinal cord, [[w:Midbrain|midbrain]] and [[w:Forebrain|forebrain]] transmitting information from the external and internal environments. The midbrain links sensory, motor, and integrative components received from the hindbrain, connecting it to the forebrain. The tectum, which includes the [[w:Optic_tectum|optic tectum]] and [[w:Torus_semicircularis|torus semicircularis]], receives auditory, visual, and somatosensory inputs, forming integrated maps of the sensory and visual space around the animal. The [[w:Tegmentum|tegmentum]] receives incoming sensory information and forwards motor responses to and from the forebrain. The isthmus connects the hindbrain with midbrain. The forebrain region is particularly well developed, is further divided into diencephalon and telencephalon.
[[w:Diencephalon|Diencephalon]] is related to regulation of eye and body movement in response to visual stimuli, sensory information, [[w:Circadian_rhythms|circadian rhythms]], olfactory input, and [[w:Autonomic_nervous_system|autonomic nervous system]]. The [[w:Telencephalon|telencephalon]] is related to control of movements, neurotransmitters and neuromodulators responsible for integrating inputs and transmitting outputs are present, sensory systems, and cognitive functions.
[[w:List_of_reptiles|List of reptiles]]
[[w:Amphibians|Amphibians]] are a [[Class (biology)|class]] of [[semiaquatic]], [[Ectotherm|ectothermic]] animals that undergo [[metamorphosis]] from an aquatic larval form with gills to an air-breathing adult form with [[w:Cutaneous_respiration|cutaneous respiration]] or lungs, or both. Like fish, they are [[Anamniote|anamniotic]], but they become [[Tetrapod|four-limbed]] [[vertebrate]] [[Animal|animals]] like reptiles. Their [[Biological life cycle|life cycle]] typically starts out as [[Aquatic animal|aquatic]] [[Larva|larvae]] with [[Gill|gills]] known as [[Tadpole|tadpoles]], but some species have developed behavioural adaptations to bypass this. They generally undergo [[metamorphosis]] from an aquatic larval form with gills to an air-breathing adult form with [[Lung|lungs]]. Amphibians [[w:Cutaneous_respiration|cutaneous respiration]], their skin as a secondary respiratory interface, and some small terrestrial [[Salamander|salamanders]] and frogs lack lungs and rely entirely on it. All [[Extant taxon|extant]] (living) amphibians belong to the [[monophyletic]] [[Subclass (biology)|subclass]] [[Lissamphibia]], with three living [[Order (biology)|orders]]: Anura ([[Frog|frogs]] and [[Toad|toads]]), Urodela ([[Salamander|salamanders]]), and Gymnophiona ([[Caecilian|caecilians]]). Amphibians have adapted to inhabit a wide variety of [[Habitat|habitats]], with most species living in [[Freshwater ecosystem|freshwater]], [[wetland]] or [[Terrestrial ecosystem|terrestrial ecosystems]] (such as [[riparian woodland]], [[fossorial]] and even [[arboreal]] habitats)
[[w:List_of_amphibians|List of amphibians]]
=== [[w:Insects|Insects]] ===
[[Class (biology)|Class]] '''Insecta a'''re [[Hexapoda|hexapod]] [[Invertebrate|invertebrates]], the largest class within the [[arthropod]] [[phylum]], having a [[Chitin|chitinous]] [[exoskeleton]], a three-part body ([[Insect morphology#Head|head]], [[Thorax (insect anatomy)|thorax]] and [[Abdomen (insect anatomy)|abdomen]]), three pairs of jointed [[Arthropod leg|legs]], [[Compound eye|compound eyes]], and a pair of [[Antenna (biology)|antennae]]. The insect [[nervous system]] consists of a [[insect brain]] and a [[ventral nerve cord]]. Most insects reproduce [[Oviparous|by laying eggs]]. [[Respiratory system of insects|Insects breathe air]] through a system of [[Spiracle (arthropods)|paired openings called spiracles]] along their sides, connected to [[Trachea#Invertebrates|small tracheal tubes]] that take air directly to the tissues. The blood therefore does not carry oxygen; it is only partly contained in vessels, and some circulates in an open [[hemocoel]]. Insect vision is mainly through their [[Compound eye|compound eyes]], with additional small [[ocelli]]. Many insects can hear, using [[Tympanal organ|tympanal organs]], which may be on the legs or other parts of the body. The [[Insect olfaction|Insect sense of smell]] is via receptors, usually on the antennae and the mouthparts.
[[w:List_of_insects|List of insects]]
=== [[Taxonomy (Biology)|Taxonomy]] ===
[[w:Taxonomy]], [[w:Cladistics|Cladistics]]
=== [[Graph Theory]] ===
As a discipline began with the [[w:Seven_Bridges_of_Konigsberg|Seven Bridges of Konigsberg]], investigated by [[w:Leonard_Euler|Leonard Euler]]. That problem and the [[w:Polyhedron_formula|polyhedron formula]] were the first theorems of [[w:Topology|Topology]]
==== Al-Gevurah ====
[[w:Homological_algebra|Homological_algebra]] study of homological functors. algebraic topology) and abstract algebra (theory of modules and syzygies)
chain complexes can be studied through their homology and cohomology.
HA affords the means to extract information contained in these complexes and present it in the form of homological invariants of rings, modules, topological spaces, and other "tangible" mathematical objects. A spectral sequence.
== Day Six: Mammals and Homo Sapiens ==
=== [[w:Mammals|Mammals]] ===
Differentiated by [[w:Mammary_gland|mammary glands]] for feeding their young, a [[w:Neocortex|neocortex]] region of the brain, three [[w:Evolution_of_mammalian_auditory_ossicles|middle ear bones]] which respond to higher sound frequencies, and [[w:Fur|fur]] or [[w:Hair|hair]]. Three sub-classes: [[w:Placental_mammals|placental mammals]], [[w:Marsupials|marsupials]], and [[w:Monotremes|monotremes]].
Breasts, breastfeeding, [[w:Comparative_Physiology|Comparative Physiology]], [[w:Transcendental_anatomy|Transcendental anatomy]], [[w:Ethology|Ethology]], [[w:Social_animals|Social animals]], [[w:Middle_ear#Mammals|Middle ear in mammals]]
[[w:Ungulates|Ungulates]] are a [[w:Clade|clade]] of large mammals with [[w:Hooves|hooves]]: Order [[w:Perissodactyla|perissodactyla]] is odd-toed and order [[w:Artiodactyla|artiodactyla]] are even-toed.
[[w:List_of_mammal_genera|List of mammal genera]], [[w:Handbook_of_the_Mammals_of_the_World|Handbook of the Mammals of the World]], [[w:Mammal_classification|Mammal classification]]
[[w:Order_(biology)|Order]] of [[w:Primates|primates]] includes [[w:Monkeys|monkeys]], [[w:Apes|apes]], and [[w:Hominids|hominids]]: [[w:Human_physiology|Human body]], [[w:Outline_of_human_anatomy|Outline of human anatomy]]
=== [[w:Homo_Sapien|Homo Sapien]] ===
A species of primate uniquely differentiated by b'tzelem eloqim or [[w:Imago_dei|Imago dei]]: a [[w:Human_brain|Human brain]] with a large [[w:Prefrontal_cortex|prefrontal cortex]] on their [[w:Frontal_lobe|frontal lobe]], enabling [[theoretical reason]] (science), moral [[w:Practical_reason|practical reason]], and [[productive reason]] (art), making them [[w:Agriculture|cultivators of the ground]], and [[w:Pastoralists|pastoralists]] and [[w:Animal_husbandry|domesticators]] of [[w:List_of_domesticated_animals|other animals]], and [[w:Apex_predators|apex predators]].
<s>Humanities</s>
[[w:List_of_human_cell_types|List of human cell types]]
==== Ethics and Politics ====
<s>Anthropology,</s> Ethics, Nicomachean Ethics,
<s>Sociology,</s> Politics, Dialectic, Rhetoric, Sophistic Refutations,
Family, Sex and Gender, and Home economics
=== History of Human civilizations ===
[[w:User:Jaredscribe/Comparative_law|User:Jaredscribe/Comparative law]]
Nuclear fission
=== Set Theory ===
[[Wikibooks:Set Theory]], [[w:Set_theory|w:set theory]], [[Set theory|v:Set Theory]]
[[w:Naive_set_theory|naive set theory]]''. After the discovery of [[w:Paradoxes_of_set_theory|paradoxes]] within naive set theory (such as [[Russell's paradox]], [[w:Cantor's_paradox|Cantor's paradox]] and the [[w:Burali-Forti_paradox|Burali-Forti paradox]]), various [[w:Axiomatic_system|axiomatic systems]] were proposed in the early twentieth century, of which [[w:Zermelo–Fraenkel_set_theory|Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory]] (with or without the [[w:Axiom_of_choice|axiom of choice]])''
A [[w:Concrete_category|concrete category]] is a [[w:Category|category]] that is equipped with a [[w:Faithful_functor|faithful functor]] to the [[w:Category_of_sets|category of sets]].
== Day Seven: Perfection, Blessing, Sanctification, Rest ==
=== [[s:Torah|Torah Law]] ===
[[w:Weekly_Torah_portion|Weekly Torah portion]]
=== Prophets ===
[[s:he:מקרא]]
=== Philosophy ===
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Hermeneutics, Dream interpretation
==== Ontology, Category Theory ====
[[s:Categories (Aristotle)]], essence and accident
[[Category Theory]], [[w:Category|Category]]
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See [[s:Category:Music]] and [[w:Category:Music books]]
This part of the [[Universal Bibliography]] is a bibliography of music.
Bibliography
*[[w:Bibliography of Music Literature|Bibliography of Music Literature]]
*Green (ed). Foundations in Music Bibliography. 1993. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=rADdpZN9UhAC&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Krummel. The Literature of Music Bibliography: An Account of the Writings on the History of Music Printing & Publishing. 2nd Ed: 1992. [https://books.google.com/books?id=3AZsiITI-IEC]
*Bibliography of Music Bibliographies. 1967. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=d6YJAQAAMAAJ]
*Bayne. A Guide to Library Research in Music. 2008. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ExGbDqu9gPAC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*A Selected Bibliography of Music Librarianship [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=X5AeOl4O-osC]
*Bradley. American Music Librarianship: A Research and Information Guide. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VabcAAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Music Reference and Research Materials. 3rd Ed: 1974: [https://books.google.com/books?id=5Y1IAAAAMAAJ]
*Agruss. Guide to Reference Books on Music. 1948. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wX06AAAAIAAJ]
*Haggerty. A Guide to Popular Music Reference Books: An Annotated Bibliography. 1995. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2OnEEAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Coover. A Bibliography of Music Dictionaries. 1952: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NH06AAAAIAAJ]. Music Lexicography. 2nd Ed: 1958. Including a Study of Lacunae in Music Lexicography and a Bibliography of Music Dictionaries. 3rd Ed: 1971: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jKMJAQAAMAAJ].
*A Bibliography of Books on Music and Collections of Music. 1948. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vfvpnwWWlZwC]
*Deakin. Musical Bibliography: A Catalogue of the Musical Works. 1892. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-UgQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP7#v=onepage&q&f=false] (England 15th to 18th century)
*Matthew. The Literature of Music. 1896. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=fTQ6AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false]. Reviews: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bjdVAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA56#v=onepage&q&f=false] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dzcZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA22#v=onepage&q&f=false] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=R0gcAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA470#v=onepage&q&f=false] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qK5OAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA55#v=onepage&q&f=false] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1chZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA155#v=onepage&q&f=false] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ezszAQAAMAAJ] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5h61TMyTmOMC] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8k8wAQAAIAAJ] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=i8W8LKTuc0AC]. Author: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=awIQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA275#v=onepage&q&f=false].
*Hoek. Analyses of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Music, 1940-2000. 2007. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CRG4AQAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*RILM Abstracts of Music Literature. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HxjjAAAAMAAJ]
*Elliker. The Periodical Literature of Music: Trends from 1952 to 1987. 1996. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=T5ifAAAAMAAJ]
*Forkel. Allgemeine Litteratur der Musik. 1792. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=VTRDAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false] Review: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3N8sAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA33#v=onepage&q&f=false]
History and bibliography
*Matthew. A Handbook of Musical History and Bibliography. 1898. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=V1g5AAAAIAAJ&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false] Review: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=P1lDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA229#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Boyden. The History and Literature of Music: 1750 to the Present. 1959. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XcAZAQAAIAAJ]
*Brown. An Introduction to the History and Literature of Music in Western Culture. 2nd Ed: 2011. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=aKpGAAAACAAJ]
Chronology, annuals, year books, years
*Eisler. World Chronology of Music History.
*Lowe. A Chronological Cyclopædia of Musicians and Musical Events. 1896.
*Tokyo Ongaku Gakko. Kinsei Hogaku Nempyo. [Chronology of Japanese Music in Recent Ages.] Rokugatsu-Kan. Volume 1. 1912. Volume 2. 1914. Volume 3. 1927. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=drMQAQAAMAAJ]
*Cossar. This Day in Music. 2005. 2010.
*Glassman. The Year in Music. Columbia House.
*[[w:Herman Klein|Hermann Klein]]. Musical Notes. Annual Critical Record of Important Musical Events.
*[[w:Joseph Bennett (critic)|Bennett]]. The Musical Year.
*Hinrichsen's Musical Year Book
*The Musical Year Book of the United States
**The Boston Musical Year Book
*Billboard. Overview. 1982: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YyQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT53#v=onepage&q&f=false].
*Billboard. The Year in Music. 1994: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ZAgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA62#v=onepage&q&f=false]. 2003: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bA8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA47#v=onepage&q&f=false].
**The Year in Music and Video. 1985: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uyQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT50#v=onepage&q&f=false]. 1986: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tiQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA49#v=onepage&q&f=false].
*Jackson. 1965: The Most Revolutionary Year in Music.
*Porter. A Musical Season: 1972-1973.
**Music of Three Seasons: 1974-1977
**Music of Three More Seasons 1977-1980
**Musical Events: A Chronicle, 1980-1983.
*[https://news.1242.com/article/tag/大人のmusic-calendar 【大人のMusic Calendar】]. Nippon Broadcasting System. [Articles from 2016 are included in [https://news.1242.com/article/author/toritani/page/42 NEWS ONLINE 編集部の記事一覧].]
*[http://music-calendar.jp Music Calendar]
History
*"Recorded Sound: The First Century: 1877-1977". Billboard. 21 May 1977. pp [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XCMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT39#v=onepage&q&f=false RS-1] to RS-117.
Encyclopedias
See also [[w:List of encyclopedias by branch of knowledge/Music]] and [[w:Bibliography of encyclopedias#Music and dance]]
*Encyclopedia of Music in the 20th Century [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=m8W2AgAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Moore. Complete Encyclopædia of Music. 1852. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-QBFAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Dictionaries
*Apel. "Dictionaries of music". Harvard Dictionary of Music. 1969. pp [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TMdf1SioFk4C&pg=PA232#v=onepage&q&f=false 232] to 234.
United Kingdom:
*Billboard. Spotlight on the United Kingdom. 1978: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TSQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT78#v=onepage&q&f=false]. 1979: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MCUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT100#v=onepage&q&f=false].
Australia:
*Billboard. Spotlight on Australia/New Zealand. 1982: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GCQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT54#v=onepage&q&f=false]. 1985: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=hiQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT29#v=onepage&q&f=false]. 1986: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UCQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA60#v=onepage&q&f=false].
**Live Talent of Australia: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YyQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT94#v=onepage&q&f=false]
New Zealand:
*Harvey. A Bibliography of Writings about New Zealand Music Published to the End of 1983. 1985. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=B1ROA_sP-xsC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*The Complete New Zealand Music Charts, 1966-2006: Singles, Albums, DVDs, Compilations. 2007. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wyU5AQAAIAAJ]
*Billboard. New Zealand. 2002: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Rg0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA37#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Canada:
*Billboard. Spotlight on Canada. 1981: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=DSQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT50#v=onepage&q&f=false].
Scandanavia:
*Billboard. Spotlight on Scandanavia. 1981: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GCUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT86#v=onepage&q&f=false].
France:
*Billboard. Spotlight on France. 1971: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-wgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA35#v=onepage&q&f=false]. 1972: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=REUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA35#v=onepage&q&f=false]. 1982: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AyQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT66#v=onepage&q&f=false]. 1986: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ICUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA41#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Germany:
*Billboard. Spotlight on West Germany. 1971: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=zQgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA45#v=onepage&q&f=false]. 1985: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-iMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT12#v=onepage&q&f=false].
**Spotlight on West Germany, Austria and Switzerland. 1986: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CSUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA35#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Italy:
*Billboard. Spotlight on Italy. 1981: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=8iQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT3#v=onepage&q&f=false]. 1985: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3yQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT36#v=onepage&q&f=false]. 1986: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2SQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA38-IA1#v=onepage&q&f=false]. 1994: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XQgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA67#v=onepage&q&f=false].
Spain:
*Billboard. Spotlight on Spain. 1971: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5Q8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA49#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Philipines:
*[https://billboardphilippines.com/culture/scenes/lost-history-how-filipino-music-was-documented-in-the-40s-to-2010s/ Lost History: How Filipino Music Was Documented In The ’40s To 2010s]. Billboard Philippines. 18 January 2024.
*[[w:en:Billboard Philippines|Billboard Philippines]]
Brazil:
*Billboard. Spotlight on Brazil. 1996: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=NA0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA51#v=onepage&q&f=false].
United States
*Krummel. Bibliographical Handbook of American Music. 1987. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=G4wcnkvFZl4C&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Krummel. Resources of American Music History: A Directory of Source Materials from Colonial Times to World War II. 1981. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=bJcYAAAAIAAJ]
Soviet
*Aschmann. Current Soviet Music Bibliography. 1976. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2i7jAAAAMAAJ]
Decline of pop music:
*[https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/science-proves-pop-music-has-actually-gotten-worse-8173368/ Science Proves: Pop Music Has Actually Gotten Worse]. [[w:Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]]. 27 July 2012.
*[https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/new-study-discovers-pop-music-has-suffered-significant-decline-in-one-area/ New study discovers pop music has suffered “significant decline” in one area]. [[w:Far Out (website)|Far Out]]. 5 July 2024.
*[https://www.globalnews.ca/news/9001083/why-older-music-more-popular-than-new-music/amp/ There is something very, very wrong with today’s music. It just may not be very good.] [[w:Global News|Global News]]. 24 July 2022.
*[https://www.bbc.co.uk/music/articles/fb84bf19-29c9-4ed3-b6b6-953e8a083334 Has pop music lost its fun?]. BBC. 12 January 2018.
*[https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/its-official-modern-music-is-bad/ It’s official: modern music is bad]. The Spectator. 13 February 2024.
Homogeneity of pop music:
*[https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/jul/27/pop-music-sounds-same-survey-reveals Pop music these days: it all sounds the same, survey reveals]. The Guardian. 27 July 2012.
*[https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna48356108 Pop Music All Sounds the Same Nowadays]. NBC News. 27 July 2012.
*[https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/why-does-today-s-pop-music-sound-the-same-because-the-same-people-make-it-8368714.html Why does today's pop music sound the same? Because the same people make it]. The Independent. 29 November 2012.
*[https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/science/pop-music-too-loud-and-all-sounds-the-same-official-idUSBRE86P0R9/ Pop music too loud and all sounds the same: official]. Reuters. 26 July 2012.
*[https://theconversation.com/from-art-form-to-asset-our-study-found-popular-songs-are-becoming-more-generic-266097 From art form to asset: our study found popular songs are becoming more generic]. The Conversation. 3 October 2025.
Conferences:
*International Music Industry Conference. 1971: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=tggEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA29#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Laserdisc/Karaoke/CES
*Billboard. Karaoke. 1992:
[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=jg8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA41-IA1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
**CES and Karaoke. 1994. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=UggEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA77#v=onepage&q&f=false]
**Laserdisc. 1995. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7AsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA67#v=onepage&q&f=false]
**Laserdisc/Karaoke. 1996: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iQ8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA59#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Classical music
*Billboard spotlights: 1995 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1g0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA39#v=onepage&q&f=false] (9 September 1995)
**"Classical Music Recording Market". Billboard. 12 April 1980. pp C-1 to C-12 and p 32. (A Billboard Spotlight).
**"Classical Music: Discovering New Dimensions". Billboard. 10 September 1983. pp C-1 to C-18. (A Billboard Spotlight).
*"Classical" section, and "Best Selling Classical LPs" chart, in Billboard
Jazz
*[[w:en:All About Jazz|All About Jazz]]
Oldies
*"Oldies stations find their place in radio market". Star-News. 13 March 1988. pp 1D & [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=2OoyAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA16#v=onepage&q&f=false 6D]: "Oldies".
*Billboard. 15 April 1972. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=a0UEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT7#v=onepage&q&f=false p 47].
*Billboard. 17 April 1961, [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JiIEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false p 1].
*Billboard. 4 January 1960, [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Ch8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false p 1]
Nostalgia
See also [[Universal Bibliography/Nostalgia]]
*"A Perspective on the Future of Nostalgia". Billboard. 4 May 1974. pp [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=cgkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA37#v=onepage&q&f=false N-1] to N-54 and two more pages.
*Carr. Nostalgia, Song and the Quest for Home: Production, Text, Reception. 2025. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xz1jEQAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Charts
*Carroll, " Did Billboard, Cash Box, and Record World Charts Tell the Same Story? Perception and Reality, 1960-1979"(2022) 9 Rock Music Studies [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19401159.2022.2054107 199]
Magazines
See also [[w:Category:Music magazines]]
*Billboard. Google: [https://books.google.co.uk/books/serial/ISSN:00062510?rview=1&lr=&sa=N&start=2770 1942] onwards
==Japanese and Japan==
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*Billboard. Spotlight on Japan. 1970: 19 December 1970 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mSkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA37#v=onepage&q&f=false]. 1971: 11 December 1971 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Fg8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA39#v=onepage&q&f=false]. 1973: 17 February 1973 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=QEUEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT25#v=onepage&q&f=false]. 1977: 30 April 1977 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=USMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT46#v=onepage&q&f=false]. 1979: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_iQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT48#v=onepage&q&f=false]. 1982:[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=byQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT38#v=onepage&q&f=false]. 1985: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1CQEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT65#v=onepage&q&f=false]. 1986:[https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-CMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=RA1-PA79#v=onepage&q&f=false]. 1993: 12 June 1993 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=9A8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA57#v=onepage&q&f=false]. 1995: 5 August 1995 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xwsEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA52-IA1#v=onepage&q&f=false]. 1996: 31 August 1996 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=vwcEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA66#v=onepage&q&f=false]. 1997: 30 August 1997 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_gkEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA61#v=onepage&q&f=false]. 1998: 26 September 1998 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GgoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA117#v=onepage&q&f=false]. 2000: 9 September 2000 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=aREEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA65#v=onepage&q&f=false]. 2002: 7 September 2002 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-QwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA53#v=onepage&q&f=false]. 2003: 5 July 2003 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3w0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA45#v=onepage&q&f=false].
**"Japan in 1974: Business Bristles While Shortages Are Met". Billboard. 23 February 1974. pp J-1 to J-30. (A Billboard Spotlight).
**"Made in Japan: A Dynamic Music Industry". Billboard. 1 March 1975. pp J-1 to J-23. (A Billboard Spotlight).
**"Japan '76". Billboard. 17 April 1976. pp 36 to 59. (A Billboard Spotlight).
**"Japanese Music: The Challenge of Recession". Billboard. 27 May 1978. pp J-1 to J-31. (A Billboard Spotlight).
**"Music in Japan: Industry Views 1981 With Quiet Optimism". Billboard. 30 May 1981. pp J-1 to J-18.
**"Japan: Where Technology Greets Tradition". (An International Market Profile). Billboard. 21 May 1983. pp J-1 to J-13. Follows p 34.
**"Billboard Spotlight on Japan: VCRs and CDs Will Be Pacemakers". Billboard. 26 May 1984. pp J-1 to J-11. Follows p 38.
**"Spotlight on Japan". Billboard. 6 June 1987. pp J-1 to J-12.
**"Japan '88". Billboard. 9 July 1988. pp J-1 to J-11. (A Billboard International Spotlight).
**"Japan". ("Japan '89"/"Spotlight on Japan"). Billboard. 3 June 1989. pp J-1 to J-20. (International Spotlight).
**"Japan". ("International Spotlight"/"A Billboard Spotlight"). Billboard. 25 May 1991. pp J-1 to J-26. Follows p 50. Called "Japan '91" on front page.
*[[w:The Best Ten|The Best Ten]] (ザ・ベストテン). [Television programme]. [https://www.tbs.co.jp/tbs-ch/special/the_bestten/ Episodes].
*[[w:ja:Music Station|Music Station]]. [Television programme]. Episodes: [https://www.tv-asahi.co.jp/music/contents/m_lineup/0003/index.html episode 1] etc.
*Wade. Music in Japan: Experiencing Music, Expressing Culture. 2005. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XXYIAQAAMAAJ]
*Malm. Japanese Music & Musical Instruments. 1959. [https://books.google.com/books?id=QkTaAAAAMAAJ]
*[[w:Francis Taylor Piggott|Pigott]]. The Music and Musical Instruments of Japan. 1893 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ttKTUwmjzMwC&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q&f=false]. 1909. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=MAM5AAAAIAAJ]
*Robert C Provine, Yoshiko Tokumaru and J Lawrence Witzleben. "Japan". East Asia: China, Japan, and Korea. The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, vol 7. Routledge. 2002. ISBN 0-8240-6041-5. Part 4. pp 531 to 800. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-J1ADwAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Toru Mitsui. "Interactions of Imported and Indigenous Musics in Japan: A Historical Overview of the Music Industry". Fouli T Papageorgiou (ed). Whose Master's Voice?: The Development of Popular Music in Thirteen Cultures. Chapter 9. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xHrDEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA152#v=onepage&q&f=false p 152].
Bibliography
*Tsuge. Japanese Music: An Annotated Bibliography. 1986. [https://books.google.com/books?id=YCsKAQAAMAAJ]
*[[w:ja:三井徹|Tōru Mitsui]]. Popyurā Ongaku Kankei Tosho Mokuroku: Ryūkōka, Jazu, Rokku, J-poppu no Hyakunen. (Japanese: ポピュラー音楽関係図書目録: 流行歌、ジャズ、ロック、Jポップの百年). Nichigai Associates. 2009. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=dSAxAQAAIAAJ]. Catalogues: [https://search.worldcat.org/title/406243182] [https://cir.nii.ac.jp/crid/1970586434933272116]
*[https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/rnavi/avmaterials/post_572 音楽に関する文献を探すには(主題書誌)]. NDL.
Dictionaries
*[[w:ja:下中弥三郎|Shimonaka Yasaburo]] (ed). Ongaku Jiten. Heibonsha. Review: (1959) 18 Journal of Asian Studies 295 [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-asian-studies/article/abs/ongaku-jiten-dictionary-of-music-ed-shimonaka-yasaburo-tokyo-heibonsha-195557-12-volumes-900-yen-per-volume/F3067B1CE61B5B2C647091E69CE8C8DD] [https://read.dukeupress.edu/journal-of-asian-studies/article-abstract/18/2/295/322980/Ongaku-jiten-Dictionary-of-Music?redirectedFrom=fulltext]
History
*Eta Harich-Schneider. A History of Japanese Music. 1973. [https://books.google.com/books?id=3AraAAAAMAAJ]
*Koh-ichi Hattori. 123 Years of Japanese Music: The Culture of Japan Through a Look at Its Music. 2004. [https://books.google.com/books?id=znzsAAAAMAAJ]
**Koh-ichi Hattori. 36,000 Days of Japanese Music: The Culture of Japan Through A Look At Its Music. Pacific Vision. Pierce, Southfield, Michigan. 1996. ISBN 0965364208.
*Shinpan Nihon Ryūkōkashi. (Japanese: 新版日本流行歌史). [[w:ja:社会思想社|Shakaishisosha]]. 1994. Review: [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=XQdIAAAAMAAJ]. Catalogue: [https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/en/books/R100000002-I000002420287]
**新版日本流行歌史: 1960-1994. [https://books.google.com/books?id=_b4pAQAAIAAJ] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nb4pAQAAIAAJ].
**新版日本流行歌史: 1938-1959
**1867-1937
*Mehl. Music and the Making of Modern Japan: Joining the Global Concert. 2024. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=P3QMEQAAQBAJ&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Modern, contemporary, today
*Johnson. Handbook of Japanese Music in the Modern Era. 2024. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KNP7EAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Matsue. Focus: Music in Contemporary Japan. 2016. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AQgtCgAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Music of Japan Today. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YZQYEAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Popular music
*Mitsui (ed). Made in Japan: Studies in Popular Music. 2014. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=YWQKBAAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Stevens. Japanese Popular Music: Culture, Authenticity and Power. 2008. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OHMkdcL9DAMC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Mitsui. Popular Music in Japan: Transformation Inspired by the West. 2020. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=FpbqDwAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Nagahara. Tokyo Boogie-Woogie: Japan’s Pop Era and Its Discontents. 2017. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=iTxYDgAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Patterson. Music and Words: Producing Popular Songs in Modern Japan, 1887–1952. 2019. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=P0FvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*James Stanlaw. "Using English identity markers in Japanese Popular Music". English in East and South Asia. Chapter 14. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=88A1EAAAQBAJ&pg=PT109#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*"Japanese Popular Music in Singapore". Asian Music. vol 34. No 1: Fall/Winter 2002/2003. p 1. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=_D4JAQAAMAAJ]
*Steve McClure. Nipponpop. Tuttle Publishing. 1998. ISBN 9780804821070. ISBN 0804821070. [Sometimes called "Nippon Pop"]. Catalogue: [https://search.worldcat.org/title/Nipponpop/oclc/247384040]
Review: (1998) [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=f9egmeZ8YywC 245] The Publishers Weekly 2
From folk to J-pop
*[[w:ja:富澤一誠|Issei Tomizawa]]. Ano subarashii kyoku o mō ichido: fōku kara J-poppu made. (Japanese: あの素晴しい曲をもう一度: フォークからJポップまで). [[w:Shinchosha|Shinchosha]]. 2010. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ju9MAQAAIAAJ]. Catalogue: [https://search.worldcat.org/title/501749494]. Commentary on book: [https://www.ytv.co.jp/michiura/time/2010/01/j2010110.html]. Review of the CD: [https://www.cdjournal.com/i/disc/great-agefree-music-forever-and-great-music-are-o/4109110788].
J-pop
*Bourdaghs. Sayonara Amerika, Sayonara Nippon: A Geopolitical Prehistory of J-pop. 2012. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=K_y88JwibrMC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*"The Rise of J-Pop in Asia and Its Impact" (2004) Japan Spotlight. vol 23. p 24. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=i7C0AAAAIAAJ]
*Terence Lancashire. "J-pop's elusive J: Is Japanese popular music Japanese?" (2008) Perfect Beat. vol 9. No 1. p 38. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5No4AQAAIAAJ]
*Tetsu Misaki. J-poppu no Nihongo: kashiron. (Japanese: Jポップの日本語: 歌詞論). [[w:ja:彩流社|彩流社 (Sairyusha)]]. 2002. [https://books.google.com/books?id=dsMpAQAAIAAJ] [https://search.worldcat.org/ja/title/J-:/oclc/52005194]
*[[w:ja:烏賀陽弘道|Hiromichi Ugaya]]. Jpoppu Towa Nanika: Kyodaikasuru Ongaku Sangyō. (Japanese: Jポップとは何か: 巨大化する音楽産業). 2005. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=TLlOAAAAMAAJ] catalogue [https://search.worldcat.org/ja/title/J-:/oclc/676652594] [https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BA71618018]
Japanese rock
*Takarajima Special Edition: Encyclopedia of Japanese Rock 1955-1990. Nihon rokku daihyakka: Rokabirī kara bando būmu made. (Japanese: 日本ロック大百科 [年表編] ロカビリーからバンド・ブームまで 1955〜1990). [[w:ja:JICC出版局|JICC Shuppankyoku]]. 1992. ISBN 9784796602907. ISBN 4796602909. Catalogues: [https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BN07889172] [https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/2263400].
*Japanese Rock: Standard: 1967-1985. 日本のロック名曲徹底ガイド: 名曲263決定盤846. CDJournal. 2008. ISBN 9784861710469. ISBN 4861710464. [https://www.cdjournal.com/Company/products/mook.php?mno=20081002]. Catalogue: [https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BA8932668X?l=en].
*Kojima Satoshi (Japanese: 小島智). 検証・80年代日本のロック. アルファベータブックス. 2024. ISBN 9784865981179. ISBN 4865981179. [https://books.google.com/books?id=0gbl0AEACAAJ]. Review: [https://mainichi.jp/articles/20241026/ddm/015/070/005000c].
Jazz
*[[w:ja:スイングジャーナル|Swing Journal]] (1947 to 2010) Commentary: [https://www.allaboutjazz.com/news/swing-journal-long-standing-jazz-magazine-to-be-suspended-in-june/]
Japanese fusion:
*THE DIG presents 日本のフュージョン. Shinko Music Mook. Released 19 April 2013. Commentary: [https://www.cdjournal.com/news/casiopea/50967]. No II. Released 23 October 2014. Commentary: [https://www.cdjournal.com/news/takanaka-masayoshi/62225]
Classical
*[[w:ja:ぶらあぼ|Bravo]] (Japanese: ぶらあぼ) ebravo.jp
*[[w:ja:音楽芸術 (雑誌)|Ongaku Geijutsu]] (Japanese: 音楽芸術)
Magazines
For Japanese music magazines, see [[w:ja:日本の音楽雑誌]].
*Music Periodicals in Japan — A Comprehensive List (1988) 35 Fontes Artis Musicae 116 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/23507222] [https://books.google.com/books?id=qHYWAAAAIAAJ]
**Kishimoto, "Additional Corrections and Alphabetical Title Index" (1989) 36 Fontes Artis Musicae 38 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/23507313] [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=7XYWAAAAIAAJ]
*Special Bibliography: A Bibliography of Japanese Magazines and Music (1959) 3 Ethnomusicology 76 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/924290]
*A Historical Survey of Music Periodicals in Japan: 1881—1920 (1989) 36 Fontes Artis Musicae 44 [https://www.jstor.org/stable/23507314]
*[[w:ja:篠原章|Akira Shinohara]]. 日本ロック雑誌クロニクル. [[w:en:Ohta Publishing|Ohta Publishing]]. 2005. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=L8opAQAAIAAJ]
*[[w:Oricon|Oricon]] (オリコン)
**[https://web.archive.org/web/19970412131857/http://www.999.com/Oricon/index.html Oricon Music Site]. Commentary: [https://internet.watch.impress.co.jp/www/article/980309/oms.htm].
*[[w:Billboard Japan|Billboard Japan]] (ビルボード・ジャパン)
**Music Labo (ミュージック・ラボ) (1970 to 1994)
*Music Research (ミュージック・リサーチ) ["Weekly Music Magazine"]. Catalogue: [https://web.archive.org/web/20260319070908/https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R100000002-I000000039804].
*Rolling Stone Japan
*新譜ジャーナル (Shinpu Journal). Catalogue: [https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R100000002-I000000012315]. Began 1968 [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=L8opAQAAIAAJ], later called シンプジャーナル
**シンプジャーナル
*Myūjikku mansurī [ミュージック・マンスリー] [https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/AN00396190]
*カセットライフ. (Cassette Life). [[w:ja:シンコーミュージック・エンタテイメント|Shinko Music Entertainment]]
*[[w:ja:CDジャーナル|CDJournal]]
*[[w:ja:Rockin'on Japan|Rockin'on Japan]]. (ロッキング・オン・ジャパン). (1986 onwards)
*[[w:ja:Rooftop|Rooftop]] (1976 onwards)
*[[w:ja:FOOL'S MATE|Fool's Mate]]
Columns in periodicals
*"Japanese Newsnotes". Billboard. (eg 17 April 1961, [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JiIEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA13#v=onepage&q&f=false p 13].)
Websites
*[[w:ja:ナタリー (ニュースサイト)|Natalie]] (ナタリー)
*[[w:ja:BARKS|Barks]]
*OKMusic. Commentary: [https://xtech.nikkei.com/it/article/NEWS/20120626/405442/].
Charts
For Japanese music charts, see [[w:ja:日本の音楽チャート]]
Chart books
*Oricon Chart Book (Japanese: オリコンチャート・ブック)
**1987 to 1998 Oricon Chart Book. All Albums. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=KvEoNwAACAAJ]
**Album Chart Book Complete Edition 1970〜2005. Catalogue:[https://www.tosyokan.pref.shizuoka.jp/licsxp-opac/WOpacMsgNewListToTifTilDetailAction.do?tilcod=1000610247212]
*澤山博之. ミュージック・ライフ 東京で1番売れていたレコード 1958~1966. Shinko Music Entertainment. 2019. [Charts published in Music Life from 1958 onwards]. Commentary: [https://mikiki.tokyo.jp/articles/-/20952 Mikiki]
Number ones
*Oricon No.1 Hits 500. Clubhouse (Japanese: クラブハウス). 1994. 1998.
**[https://books.google.com/books?id=GlsnNwAACAAJ vol 1 (1968~1985)]. ISBN 9784906496129.
**[https://books.google.com/books?id=icInNwAACAAJ vol 2 (1986~1994)]. ISBN 9784906496136.
Awards
Japan Record Awards
*輝く!日本レコード大賞 公式データブック: 放送60回記念: TBS公認. Shinko Music Entertainment. ISBN 9784401647019. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JcDqvwEACAAJ] [https://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BB2773137X]
Traditional, Hogaku
*Malm. Traditional Japanese Music and Musical Instruments. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Yn3VQbqywCsC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Miyuki Yoshikami. Japan's Musical Tradition: Hogaku from Prehistory to the Present. 2020. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=X3XTDwAAQBAJ&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
*Hughes. Traditional Folk Song in Modern Japan: Sources, Sentiment and Society. 2008. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=yfV5DwAAQBAJ&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false]
Koto:
*Tokyo Academy of Music. Collection of Japanese Koto Music. 1888. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=RncQAAAAYAAJ&pg=PP13#v=onepage&q&f=false][https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044040839565&seq=1]
Exam guides:
For the 音楽CD検定 exam on music CDs:
*音楽CD検定公式ガイドブック. 2007. [[w:ja:音楽出版社 (企業)|Ongaku Shuppansha Co Ltd]] (音楽出版社). [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=sbjdeDJMkQcC&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false vol 1]. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AoFgIowII48C&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false vol 2]. Commentary: [https://www.cdjournal.com/i/news/-/15303] [https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/46065/full/] [https://allabout.co.jp/gm/gc/57723/] [https://www.oricon.co.jp/news/45388/full/].
Children's music
*Elizabeth May. The Influence of the Meiji Period on Japanese Children's Music. University of California Press. 1963. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=54cHAQAAMAAJ]
**Japanese Children's Music Before and After Contact with the West. University of California at Los Angeles. 1958. (doctoral dissertation).
DJs
*Masahiro Yasuda, "How Japanese DJs cut across Market Boundaries" (1999) [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=H5QJAQAAMAAJ 4] Perfect Beat 45
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= Golden chords of the 120-cell =
{{align|center|David Brooks Christie}}
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{{align|center|Draft in progress}}
{{align|center|January 2026 - June 2026}}
<blockquote>Steinbach discovered the formula for the ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. Fontaine and Hurley extended this result, discovering a formula for the reciprocal of a regular polygon chord derived geometrically from the chord's star polygon. We observe that these findings in plane geometry apply more generally, to polytopes of any dimensionality. Fontaine and Hurley's geometric procedure for finding the reciprocals of the chords of a regular polygon from their star polygons also finds the rotational geodesics of any polytope of any dimensionality.</blockquote>
== Introduction ==
Steinbach discovered the Diagonal Product Formula and the Golden Fields family of ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. He showed how this family extends beyond the pentagon {5} with its well-known golden bisection proportional to 𝜙, finding that the heptagon {7} has an analogous trisection, the nonagon {9} has an analogous quadrasection, and the hendecagon {11} has an analogous pentasection, an extended family of golden proportions with quasiperiodic properties.
Kappraff and Adamson extended these findings in plane geometry to a theory of Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, showing that the Golden Fields not only do not end with the hendecagon, they form an infinite number of periodic trajectories when operated on by the Mandelbrot operator. They found a relation between the edges of star polygons and dynamical systems in the state of chaos, revealing a connection between chaos theory, number, and rotations in Coxeter Euclidean geometry.
Fontaine and Hurley examined Steinbach's finding that the length of each chord of a regular polygon is both the product of two chords and the sum of a set of smaller chords, so that in rotations to add is to multiply. They illustrated Steinbach's sets of additive chords lying parallel to each other in the plane (pointing in the same direction), and by applying Steinbach's formula more generally they found another summation relation of signed parallel chords (pointing in opposite directions) which relates each chord length to its reciprocal, and relates the summation to a distinct star polygon rotation.
We examine these remarkable findings (which stem from study of the chords of humble regular polygons) in higher-dimensional spaces, specifically in the chords, polygons and rotations of the [[120-cell]], the largest four-dimensional regular convex polytope.
== Visualizing the 120-cell ==
{| class="wikitable floatright" width="400"
|style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:120-cell.gif|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point 120-cell <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small> performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]].{{Sfn|Hise|2011|loc=File:120-cell.gif|ps=; "Created by Jason Hise with Maya and Macromedia Fireworks. A 3D projection of a 120-cell performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]]."}} In this simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges are shown; its 29 interior chords are not rendered. Therefore even though it is translucent, only its outer surface is visible. The complex interior parts of the 120-cell, all its inscribed 5-cells, 16-cells, 8-cells, 24-cells, 600-cells and its much larger inventory of polyhedra, are completely invisible in this view, as none of their edges are rendered at all.
|style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:Ortho solid 016-uniform polychoron p33-t0.png|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point [[W:Great grand stellated 120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] <small><math>\{\tfrac{5}{2},3,3\}</math></small>.{{Sfn|Ruen: Great grand stellated 120-cell|2007}} The 120-cell is its convex hull. The projection to the left renders only the 120-cell's shortest chord, its 1200 edges. The projection above also renders only one of the 120-cell's 30 chords, the edges of its 120 inscribed regular 5-cells. The 120-cell itself (the convex hull) is invisible in this view, as its edges are not rendered.
|}
[[120-cell#Geometry|The 120-cell is the maximally complex regular 4-polytope]], containing inscribed instances of every regular 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-polytope, except the regular polygons of more than {15} sides.
The 120-cell is the convex hull of a regular [[120-cell#Relationships among interior polytopes|compound of each of the 6 regular convex 4-polytopes]]. They are the [[5-cell|5-point (5-cell) 4-simplex]], the [[16-cell|8-point (16-cell) 4-orthoplex]], the [[W:Tesseract|16-point (8-cell) tesseract]], the [[24-cell|24-point (24-cell)]], the [[600-cell|120-point (600-cell)]], and the [[120-cell|600-point (120-cell)]]. The 120-cell is the convex hull of a compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells, of 75 disjoint 16-cells, of 25 disjoint 24-cells, and of 5 disjoint 600-cells.
The 120-cell contains an even larger inventory of irregular polytopes, created by the intersection of multiple instances of these component regular 4-polytopes. Many are quite unexpected, because they do not occur as components of any regular polytope smaller than the 120-cell. As just one example among the [[120-cell#Concentric hulls|sections of the 120-cell]], there is an irregular 24-point polyhedron with 16 triangle faces and 4 nonagon {9} faces.{{Sfn|Moxness|}}
Most renderings of the 120-cell, like the rotating projection here, only illustrate its outer surface, which is a honeycomb of face-bonded dodecahedral cells. Only the objects in its 3-dimensional surface are rendered, namely the 120 dodecahedra, their pentagon faces, and their edges. Although the 120-cell has chords of 30 distinct lengths, in this kind of simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges (its shortest chord) are shown. Its 29 interior chords, the edges of objects in the interior of the 120-cell, are not rendered, so interior objects are not visible at all.
Visualizing the complete interior of the 600-vertex 120-cell in a single image is impractical because of its complexity. Only four 120-cell edges are incident at each vertex, but [[120-cell#Chords|600 chords (of all 30 lengths)]] are incident at ''each'' vertex.
== Compounds in the 120-cell ==
The 8-point (16-cell), not the 5-point (5-cell) 4-simplex, is the smallest building block; it compounds to every larger regular 4-polytope. The 5-point (5-cell) does compound to the 600-point (120-cell), but it does not fit into any smaller regular 4-polytope.
The 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 2 in the 16-point (8-cell), and by 3 in the 24-point (24-cell). The 16-point (8-cell) compounds in the 24-point (24-cell) by 3 non-disjoint instances of itself, with each of the 24 vertices shared by two 16-point (8-cells). The 24-point (24-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell), and the 120-point (600-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell).
The 24-point (24-cell) also compounds by 5<sup>2</sup> non-disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell); it compounds in 5 disjoint instances of itself, 10 (not 5) different ways. Whichever set of 5 disjoint 24-point (24-cells) are assembled, the resulting 120-point (600-cell) contains 25 distinct 24-point (24-cells), not just 5 (or 10). Consequently 15 disjoint 8-point (16-cells) will construct a 120-point (600-cell), which contains 75 distinct 8-point (16-cells).
The 600-point (120-cell) is 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), just 2 different ways (not 5 or 10 ways), so it is 10 distinct 120-point (600-cells). Consequently the 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 3 times 5<sup>2</sup> (75) disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell), which contains 3<sup>2</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (225) distinct instances of the 24-point (24-cell), and 3<sup>3</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (675) distinct instances of the 8-point (16-cell).
These facts were discovered painstakingly by various researchers, and no one has found a general rule governing subsumption relations among regular polytopes. The reasons for some of their numeric incidence relations are far from obvious. [[W:Pieter Hendrik Schoute|Schoute]] was the first to see that the 120-point (600-cell) is a compound of 5 24-point (24-cells) ''10 different ways'', and after he saw it a hundred years lapsed until Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne proved his result, and showed why.{{Sfn|Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne|2020|loc=''The geometry of H4 polytopes''}}
So much for the compounds of 16-cells. The 120-cell is also the convex hull of the compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells. That stellated compound (without its convex hull of 120-cell edges) is the [[w:Great_grand_stellated_120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] illustrated above, the final regular [[W:Stellation|stellation]] of the 120-cell, and the only [[W:Schläfli-Hess polychoron|regular star 4-polytope]] to have the 120-cell for its convex hull. The edges of the great grand stellated 120-cell are <math>\phi^6</math> as long as those of its 120-cell [[W:List of polyhedral stellations#Stellation process|stellation core]] deep inside.
The compound of 120 disjoint 5-point (5-cells) can be seen to be equivalent to the compound of 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), as follows. Beginning with a single 120-point (600-cell), expand each vertex into a regular 5-cell, by adding 4 new equidistant vertices, such that the 5 vertices form a regular 5-cell inscribed in the 3-sphere. The 120 5-cells are disjoint, and the 600 vertices form 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells): a 120-cell.
== Thirty distinguished distances ==
The 30 numbers listed in the table are all-important in Euclidean geometry. A case can be made on symmetry grounds that their squares are the 30 most important numbers between 0 and 4. The 30 rows of the table are the 30 distinct [[120-cell#Geodesic rectangles|chord lengths of the unit-radius 120-cell]], the largest regular convex 4-polytope. Since the 120-cell subsumes all smaller regular polytopes, its 30 chords are the complete chord set of all the regular polytopes that can be constructed in the first four dimensions of Euclidean space, except for regular polygons of more than 15 sides.
{| class="wikitable" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
!rowspan=2|<math>c_t</math>
!rowspan=2|arc
!rowspan=2|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{n}\right\}</math></small>
!rowspan=2|<math>\left\{p\right\}</math>
!rowspan=2|<small><math>m\left\{\frac{k}{d}\right\}</math></small>
!rowspan=2|Steinbach roots
!colspan=7|Chord lengths of the unit 120-cell
|-
!colspan=5|unit-radius length <math>c_t</math>
!colspan=2|unit-edge length <math>c_t/c_1</math><br>in 120-cell of radius <math>c_8=\sqrt{2}\phi^2</math>
|-
|<small><math>c_{1,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>15.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>c_{4,1}-c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.270091</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi ^2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^4}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.072949}</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1.</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>25.2{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>2 \left\{15\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(c_{18,1}-c_{4,1}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{3-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.437016</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.190983}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi </math></small>
|<small><math>1.61803</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{3,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>36{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{10\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>3 \left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right) c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>0.618034</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.381966}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>2.28825</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>41.4{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.707107</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.61803</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{5,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>44.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{4}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>2 \left\{\frac{15}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.756934</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}}{\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.572949}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>2.80252</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{6,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>49.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{17}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.831254</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5}}{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.690983}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>3.07768</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{7,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>56.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.93913</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.881966}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>3.47709</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>60{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1.</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>3.70246</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{9,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>66.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{2 \phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.09132</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.19098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>4.04057</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{10,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>69.8{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2 \sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.14412</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\phi }{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^2}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>4.23607</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{11,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>72{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{6}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.17557</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.38197}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \sqrt{3-\phi } \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.3525</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{12,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>75.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{24}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.22474</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.53457</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{13,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>81.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.30038</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.69098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.8146</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{14,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>84.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{9}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi } c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{1+\sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.345</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi }}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5} \phi }{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>4.9798</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{15,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>90.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.41421</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>5.23607</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{16,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>95.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{29}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.4802</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.19098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>5.48037</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{17,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>98.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{31}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.51954</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(7+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>5.62605</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{18,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>104.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{8}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{4}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.58114</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{5} \sqrt{\phi ^4}</math></small>
|<small><math>5.8541</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{19,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>108.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{9}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>c_{3,1}+c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>1.61803</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi </math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1+\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.61803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>5.9907</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{20,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>110.2{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.64042</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.69098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\phi ^2}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.07359</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{21,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>113.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{19}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.67601</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\chi }{\phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.20537</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{22,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>120{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{10}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.73205</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{6} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>6.41285</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{23,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>124.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{41}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }+\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.7658</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.11803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.53779</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{24,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>130.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.81907</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\sqrt{5}}{\phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.73503</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{25,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>135.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.85123</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\phi ^2}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^4}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.42705}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^4</math></small>
|<small><math>6.8541</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{26,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>138.6{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{12}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.87083</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{7} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>6.92667</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{27,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>144{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{12}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{5}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.90211</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\phi +2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2+\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.61803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{2 \phi +4}</math></small>
|<small><math>7.0425</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{28,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>154.8{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.95167</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>7.22598</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{29,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>164.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{14}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi c_{12,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>1.98168</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3 \phi ^2}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.92705}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>7.33708</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{30,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>180{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{15}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.</math></small>
|<small><math>2</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4.}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 \sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>7.40492</math></small>
|-
|rowspan=4 colspan=6|
|rowspan=4 colspan=4|
<small><math>\phi</math></small> is the golden ratio:<br>
<small><math>\phi ^2-\phi -1=0</math></small><br>
<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }+1=\phi</math></small>, and: <small><math>\phi+1=\phi^2</math></small><br>
<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }::1::\phi ::\phi ^2</math></small><br>
<small><math>1/\phi</math></small> and <small><math>\phi</math></small> are the golden sections of <small><math>\sqrt{5}</math></small>:<br>
<small><math>\phi +\frac{1}{\phi }=\sqrt{5}</math></small>
|colspan=2|<small><math>\phi = (\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>1.618034</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\chi = (3\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>3.854102</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = (3\sqrt{5} - 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.854102</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = 11/\chi = 22/(3\sqrt{5} + 1)</math></small>
|<small><math>2.854102</math></small>
|}
== The 16-cell 4-orthoplex ==
In 2-space we have the regular 8-point octagon, in 3-space the regular 8-point cube, and in 4-space the regular 8-point [[16-cell]].
A planar octagon with rigid edges of unit length has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1,r_2=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_3=\sqrt{2}+1 \approx 2.414,r_4=\sqrt{4 + \sqrt{8}} \approx 2.613</math>
The chord ratio <math>r_3=\sqrt{2}+1</math> is a geometrical proportion, the [[W:Silver ratio|silver ratio]]. Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that:
:<math>r_3-r_1-r_1=1/r_3 \approx 0.414</math>
Note that <math>r_3-2=1/r_3=\sqrt{2}-1</math>. Their procedure rotates counterclockwise over three <math>r_3</math> chords of an {8/3} octagram. Over the first <math>r_3</math> chord the displacement is <math>\sqrt{2}+1</math>. Over the second <math>r_3</math> chord it moves in the opposite direction a distance of <math>-1</math> . Over the third <math>r_3</math> chord it also moves a distance of <math>-1</math>. Fontaine and Hurley also demonstrated the significance of <math>1/r_i</math> in Steinbach's Diagonal Product Formula, which says that every chord length is the sum of certain smaller chord lengths. The smaller chords are certain diagonals of the same regular polygon of a smaller edge length, specifically edge length <math>1/r_i</math> rather than <math>1</math>.
If we embed the planar octagon in 3-space, we can make it skew, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from three others instead of two others, at the vertices of a unit-edge cube with chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1, r_2=\sqrt{2}, r_3=\sqrt{3}, r_4=\sqrt{2}</math>
If we embed this cube in 4-space, we can skew it some more, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from six others instead of three others, at the vertices of a unit-edge 4-polytope with chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1,r_2=1,r_3=1,r_4=\sqrt{2}</math>
All of its chords except its long diameters are the same unit length as its edge. In fact they are its 24 edges, and it is a 16-cell of radius <math>1/\sqrt{2}</math>.
[[File:octagon16cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of a regular 16-cell to the [[16-cell#Projections|B<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only its edges are shown; its long diameter chords are not drawn. All 24 edges are the same length and none lie parallel to the projection plane. The octagon circumference is a Petrie polygon. The two disjoint squares lie in completely orthogonal central planes. The blue octagram is a Clifford polygon. ]]
The [[16-cell]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small>. It has 8 vertices, 24 edges, 32 equilateral triangle faces, and 16 regular tetrahedron cells. It is the [[16-cell#Octahedral dipyramid|four-dimensional analogue of the octahedron]], and each of its four orthogonal central hyperplanes is an octahedron.
The only planar regular polygons found in the 16-cell are face triangles and central plane squares, but the 16-cell also contains a skew regular octagon, its [[W:Petrie polygon|Petrie polygon]].{{Efn|name=Petrie polygon of a honeycomb}} The chords of this regular octagon, which lies skew in 4-space, are those given above for the 16-cell, as opposed to those for the cube or the regular octagon in the plane. The 16-cell is a construct of 3 Petrie octagons which share the same 8 vertices but have disjoint sets of 8 edges each.
The regular octad has higher symmetry in 4-space than it does in 2-space. The 16-cell is the 4-[[w:Cross-polytope|orthoplex]], the simplest regular 4-polytope after the [[5-cell|4-simplex]]. All the larger regular convex 4-polytopes are compounds of the 16-cell. The regular octagon exhibits this high symmetry only when embedded in 4-space at the vertices of the 16-cell.
The 16-cell constitutes an [[W:Orthonormal basis|orthonormal basis]] for the choice of a 4-dimensional Cartesian reference frame, because its vertices define four orthogonal axes. The eight vertices of a unit-radius 16-cell are (±1, 0, 0, 0), (0, ±1, 0, 0), (0, 0, ±1, 0), (0, 0, 0, ±1). All vertices are connected by <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges except opposite pairs.
The vertex coordinates of the 16-cell form 6 central squares lying in 6 pairwise [[W:Orthogonal|orthogonal]] coordinate planes. Great squares in opposite planes that do not share an axis (e.g. in the ''xy'' and ''wz'' planes) are completely disjoint (they do not intersect at any vertices). These planes are [[W:Completely orthogonal|completely orthogonal]].{{Efn|name=Six orthogonal planes of the Cartesian basis}}
Since the unit-radius coordinate system is convenient, let us derive the unit-radius 16-cell by skewing a unit-radius planar octagon, which has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{2-\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.765,r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_4=2</math>
We will need a planar octagon with rigid <math>r_2</math> chords, rather than one with rigid <math>r_1</math> edges. The octagon's <math>r_2</math> chords form two disjoint great squares, visible in the orthogonal projection, which we can reposition in 3-space to form a cube by making them parallel, and in 4-space to form a 16-cell by making them completely orthogonal.
Each chord is a distinct 4-vector with a length and a direction. Since the edges of the 16-cell are all the same length <math>r_1=\sqrt{2},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2}</math>, those chords are distinct only in the context of a rotation, where vertices circle over the chords of an <math>r_i</math> polygon. The rotational curve over each <math>r_i</math> chord makes <math>i</math> 45° turns. The angle between two <math>r_i</math> chords is <math>180^\circ - i \times 45^\circ</math>.
[[File:16-cell-orig.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 8-point 16-cell <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small> performing a double rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}}]]
[[W:Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space|Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space]] can be seen as the composition of two 2-dimensional rotations in completely orthogonal planes. The general rotation in 4-space is a [[W:SO(4)#Double rotations|double rotation]] in pairs of completely orthogonal planes. Two completely orthogonal planes are called invariant planes of the rotation when all points in the plane rotate on circles that remain in the plane, even as the whole plane tilts sideways (like a coin flipping) into another plane. The two completely orthogonal rotations of each plane (like a wheel, and like a coin flipping) are simultaneous but independent, in that they are not geometrically constrained to turn at the same rate. However, the most circular kind of rotation (as opposed to an elliptical double rotation of a rigid spherical object) occurs when the completely orthogonal planes do rotate through the same angle in the same time interval. Such equi-angled double rotations are called [[w:SO(4)#Isoclinic_rotations|isoclinic]], also [[w:William_Kingdon_Clifford|Clifford]] displacements.
The <math>r_1</math> chords of the 16-cell form a Petrie polygon {8/1} which zig-zags back and forth, in the left and right rotational directions, between two completely orthogonal great squares formed by <math>r_2</math> chords.
The <math>r_2</math> chords of the 16-cell form an ''edge polygon'' {8/2}=2{4}. The two completely orthogonal great squares lie parallel and perpendicular to each other. A ''simple'' rotation of the 16-cell in ''one'' of those two square central planes rotates that square like a wheel, while the other square does not move.{{Efn|name=simple rotations}} The four vertices of the rotating square orbit on a great circle in the plane.
The <math>r_3</math> chords of the 16-cell form a circular helix, visible as a blue {8/3} octagram in the orthogonal projection. A ''double'' rotation of the 16-cell, in both of two completely orthogonal invariant <math>r_2</math> square planes at once by equal angles, moves the eight vertices along the circular helix over <math>r_3</math> chords. The vertex motion is a [[w:Geodesic|geodesic]] circle orbit on the 3-sphere of a special kind: it does not lie in a central plane, its [[w:Winding_number|winding number]] is not 1 (it is 3 in this case), its circumference is not <math>2\pi</math> (it is <math>6\pi</math> in this case), and it moves in either a left or right handed circular spiral. We shall refer to such a chiral circle orbit as an ''isocline'', and to the skew polygram of its rotational chords as a ''Clifford polygon''.
The 16-cell is the simplest possible frame in which to [[16-cell#Rotations|observe 4-dimensional rotations]] because its characteristic rotations feature a single pair of invariant rotation planes. In the 16-cell an isoclinic rotation by 90° in any pair of invariant completely orthogonal square central planes takes every great square to its completely orthogonal great square in a twisting displacement, as the invariant planes tilt sideways 90° into each other's plane while rotating 90° internally. All the vertices move at once along the same circular helix geodesic isocline of <math>r_3</math> chords, displaced 90° in 8 orthogonal directions, and the rigid 16-cell assumes a new orientation in 4-space. When the 90° isoclinic rotation is continued in the same rotational direction through an additional 90°, each vertex is again displaced 90°, but from the new orientation in a direction orthogonal to its first 90° displacement. The rotational curve over each 90° <math>r_3</math> chord makes three 45° turns. In 360° of isoclinic rotation over four <math>r_3</math> chords, each vertex makes twelve 45° turns and reaches its antipodal position.
The trajectory of each vertex over each 90° isoclinic rotational displacement is a one-eighth segment of its geodesic orbit. Its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over eight <math>r_3</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane twice, over the four <math>r_2</math> edges of a great square in one of the two moving invariant rotation planes. In the course of a 720° isoclinic revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 16-cell returns to its original orientation.
We shall refer to this isoclinic rotation as the ''great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell'', and note once again that it is Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_3</math> {8/3} star polygon, which constructs <math>1/r_3</math>.
== The 8-cell tesseract ==
The long diameter of the unit-edge [[W:Hypercube|hypercube]] of dimension <math>n</math> is <math>\sqrt{n}</math>, so the unit-edge [[w:Tesseract|4-hypercube, the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract,]] has chords:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math>
Uniquely in its 4-dimensional case, the hypercube's edge length equals its radius, like the hexagon. We call such polytopes ''radially equilateral'', because they can be constructed from equilateral triangles which meet at their center, each contributing two radii and an edge. The [[w:Cuboctahedron|cuboctahedron]] and the 24-cell are also radially equilateral.
[[File:8-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation about a plane in 4-space.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The stationary plane bisects the figure from front-left to back-right and top to bottom.]]
The [[W:Tesseract|tesseract]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 16 vertices, 32 edges, 24 square faces, and 8 cube cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cube.
The 16-point tesseract is the convex hull of a compound of two 8-point 16-cells, in exact dimensional analogy to the way the 8-point cube is the convex hull of a [[W:Stellated octahedron|compound of two 4-point regular tetrahedrons]]. The [[W:Demihypercube|demihypercubes]] occupy alternate vertices of the hypercubes. The diagonals of the square faces of the unit-edge, unit-radius tesseract are the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges of two unit-radius 16-cells, also the edges of the square central planes.
We can rotate the tesseract isoclinically the way we rotated the 16-cell, by 90° in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on both alternate-position 16-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cell. The two skew {8/3} octagram Clifford polygons lie on two disjoint parallel isoclines of the same chirality, of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chords. They form a circular double helix which intersects each vertex of the tesseract once. The double helix is an 8-rung ladder twisted around 3 times, and bent into a circle in the fourth dimension with its ends joined. Each rung is a <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chord.
The tesseract is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 16-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew octagon, but the tesseract is a construct of 4 Petrie octagons with disjoint sets of 8 tesseract edges each. We can construct the tesseract by skewing two planar octagons. Because the tesseract is radially equilateral (unlike the 16-cell), we use two octagons of unit-edge length to build the unit-radius tesseract. To start we embed the planar octagons in 4-space at the same point and make them completely orthogonal. Then we skew each planar octagon into a cube, so we have a compound of two completely orthogonal cubes, provided we skewed them both in the same direction. The 16 vertices will be the vertices of a tesseract with half its 32 edges missing.
Because the tesseract contains two 16-cells in alternate positions it has two sets of 6 orthogonal square central planes. Two angles are required to specify the relationship between two planes in 4-space. Pairs of square central planes within each 16-cell are 90° apart in one angle, and either 0° or 90° apart in the other angle. They are 90° apart in both angles if and only if they are completely orthogonal planes, 90° apart by isoclinic rotation, with no vertices in common and their corresponding pairs of vertices 180° apart. Otherwise they are 0° apart in one of the angles, 90° apart by simple rotation, and they intersect in one axis and lie in a common 3-dimensional hyperplane.{{Efn|A double rotation in which one of the two angles of rotation is 0°, so that one of the completely orthogonal invariant planes does not rotate, is called a simple rotation. Ordinary rotations observed in a 3-dimensional space are simple rotations.|name=simple rotations}}
A pair of square central planes from alternate-position 16-cells are 60° apart by isoclinic rotation, with their corresponding pairs of vertices 120° apart. The planes are not orthogonal or parallel, so they intersect in a line somewhere, but they have no vertices in common, they have no 3-dimensional hyperplane in common, and they cannot reach each other by simple rotation. Such pairs of objects are called [[W:Clifford parallel|Clifford parallel]] because all their corresponding pairs of vertices are the same distance apart, although they are not parallel in the usual sense, because they have a common center. Not only the alternate-position 16-cells' corresponding square central planes, but also the 16-cells themselves, are Clifford parallel objects. More generally, multiple disjoint instances of a 4-polytope which compound to make a larger 4-polytope are Clifford parallel objects.
== The 24-cell ==
[[File:24-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the radially equilateral 24-cell, showing its 3 great circle polygons and its 4 chord lengths.]]
In 2-space we have the radially equilateral 6-point hexagon. In 3-space we have the radially equilateral 12-point cuboctahedron, with 4 hexagonal central planes. In 4-space we have the radially equilateral 24-point 24-cell, with 12 cuboctahedron central hyperplanes and 16 hexagonal central planes.
The [[24-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small>. It has 24 vertices, 96 edges, 96 equilateral triangle faces, and 24 octahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cuboctahedron.
The 24-cell has the same chord set as the 4-hypercube tesseract:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math>
[[Image:24-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 24-point 24-cell <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 24 octahedra is visible.]]
The 24-cell is [[W:Dual polytope|self-dual]], like the regular polygons and regular simplexes. It is the maximal regular construct of triangles and squares (with no pentagons). It is the convex hull of a compound of three disjoint 8-point 16-cells, rotated 60° isoclinically with respect to each other. Each of the three pairs of 16-cells is a tesseract. Each 24-cell edge is also a tesseract edge. The corresponding vertices of two 16-cells or two tesseracts are 120° apart by a <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chord. Each tesseract has 8 cube cells, and each cube has four <math>\sqrt{3}</math> long diameters. The <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords joining the corresponding vertices of two tesseracts belong to the third tesseract as cell long diameters.
The 24-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular dodecagon {12}. The unit-radius planar {12}-gon has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}-1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.518,r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}+1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.932,r_6=\sqrt{4}</math>
Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that:
:<math>r_5-r_3+r_1+r_1-r_3=1/r_5</math>
when <math>r_1=1</math>. In the system of unit-radius coordinates <math>r_1=1/r_5</math>. The procedure rotates counterclockwise over five <math>r_5</math> chords of a {12/5} dodecagram.
The <math>r_1</math> and <math>r_5</math> chords of the planar dodecagon do not occur in the 24-cell, which is a construct of eight skew dodecagons with disjoint sets of twelve <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges each. In the skew dodecagons the chord lengths are:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\sqrt{3},r_6=\sqrt{4}</math>
Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation.
The <math>r_1</math> <small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small> chords form 8 Petrie dodecagons which zig-zag back and forth, in the left and right rotational directions, between two Clifford parallel great hexagons formed by <math>r_2</math> chords. The 8 Petrie dodecagons can be divided four ways into 2 disjoint Petrie dodecagons {24/2}=2{12}.
The <math>r_2</math> <small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small> chords form 16 great hexagons, which can be divided four ways into 4 Clifford parallel great hexagons {24/4}=4{6}.
The <math>r_3</math> <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chords form 18 great squares, which can be divided three ways into 6 Clifford parallel great squares {24/6}=6{4}, including one pair of completely orthogonal great squares from each of the three 16-cells.
The <math>r_4</math> <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords form 32 great triangles, which can be divided four ways into 8 disjoint great triangles {24/8}=8{3} inscribed in 4 Clifford parallel great hexagons.
The <math>r_5</math> <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords form 8 circular helix Clifford polygons, visible as a green {12/5} dodecagram in the orthogonal projection. An isoclinic rotation of the 24-cell in 4 invariant <math>r_2</math> hexagon planes moves the vertices along 2 Clifford parallel circular isoclines {24/2}=2{12/5} over <math>r_5</math> chords.
[[File:dodecagon24cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of half a 24-cell to the [[24-cell#Geodesics|F<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only one Petrie dodecagon {12} of the 24-cell is shown. In a unit-radius 24-cell, all black lines are 24-cell edges of unit length, also tesseract edges. The two disjoint hexagons lie in Clifford parallel central planes. Blue chords are <math>\sqrt{2}</math> 16-cell edges of Clifford parallel great squares, also isocline chords in great square rotations. Green chords are <math>\sqrt{3}</math> distances between corresponding vertices of two 16-cells, also isocline chords in great hexagon rotations. The green {12/5} dodecagram is a Clifford polygon.]]
[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} shows three octagram isoclines of <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math> </small>chords in the 24-cell]]
We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 6 Clifford parallel invariant great square planes containing 16-cell edges, in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on all three 16-cells. In 720° each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cells. The rotational curve over each 90° <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chord makes three 45° turns. Three Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chords form a circular triple helix {24/9}=3{8/3} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. The triple helix is an 8-step circular staircase that twists around 3 times, and is bent into a torus in the fourth dimension. Each staircase step is a great triangle of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords.
[[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} shows 2 dodecagram isoclines of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords in the 24-cell]]We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 4 Clifford parallel invariant great hexagon planes containing 24-cell edges, over <math>r_{5}</math> isocline chords. This is the ''great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell'', also Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_5</math> {12/5} star polygon which constructs <math>1/r_5</math>. A complete 24-cell great circle edge plane revolution requires 720° like a complete 16-cell great circle edge plane revolution, but it is completed in 12 isoclinic displacements of 60° each rather than 8 isoclinic displacements of 90° each. An isoclinic rotation by 60° in an invariant central plane containing a 24-cell edge takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon in a twisting displacement, as 4 invariant great hexagon planes tilt sideways 60° while rotating 60° internally. It also takes every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. All 24 vertices move at once on Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 120° in different directions. The trajectory of each vertex over each 60° rotational displacement is a one-twelfth segment of its geodesic orbit. Its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space over 12 <math>r_5</math> <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane 5 times in a moving invariant rotation plane. The rotational curve over each <math>r_5</math> 120° chord makes five 30° turns. Two Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> form a circular double helix {24/10}=2{12/5} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 24-cell returns to its original orientation.
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |6 distinct 180° chord pairs make 6 distinct isoclinic rotations
|-
! colspan="3" |Edge chords
!Invariant planes
! colspan="3" |Isocline chords
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_1</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_24.svg|100px]]<br>{24/1}={24}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-11.svg|100px]]<br>{24/11}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{11}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|165°
|15°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_2</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/2}=2{12}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_4(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/4}=4{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,5).svg|100px]]<br>{24/10}=2{12/5}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{10}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|150°
|30°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_3</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/3}=3{8}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|100px]]<br>{24/9}=3{8/3}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{9}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|135°
|45°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_4</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_4(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/4}=4{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_12(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/12}=12{2}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_8(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/8}=8{3}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{8}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|120°
|60°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_5</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-5.svg|100px]]<br>{24/5}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-7.svg|100px]]<br>{24/7}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{7}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|105°
|75°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_6</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{6}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|90°
|90°
|}
By examining the chords <math>r_i</math> of the 24-cell's Petrie {12}-gon we have found two distinct isoclinic rotations, the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell and the great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell. If we examine the chords <math>t_i</math> of the 24-cell's {24}-gon we find these, and also four other distinct isoclinic rotations.
Each row of the table describes a distinct isoclinic rotation of the 24-cell characterized by a pair of chords whose arc-lengths sum to 180°. Each chord lies in a central plane which is either a great square or a great hexagon. Each short edge chord plane is completely orthogonal to a corresponding long isocline chord plane. The edge chord and isocline chord each have their characteristic {24/n}-gon, which correspond as projections of the 24-cell to completely orthogonal planes. The rotational angle between successive edge chords and the rotational angle between successive isocline chords also sum to 180°.
The edge chords form the rotation's edge polygons, over which vertices circle as the whole polygon moves orthogonally. The isocline chords form the rotation's Clifford polygons, which are stationary in 4-space as vertices circle over them. The invariant planes of the rotation intersect 0, 2, 4, or 6 vertices.
Each isoclinic rotation takes two chiral forms. There is a ''right rotation'' and a ''left rotation'' for each row of the table. In the left rotation the roles of the edge chord polygon and the isocline chord polygon, as described above, are reversed: the edge chord polygon is stationary in 4-space as vertices circle over it, and the isocline chord polygon is an invariant configuration of moving vertices.
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== The 600-cell ==
[[Image:600-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 120-point 600-cell <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2011}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 600 tetrahedra is visible. Invisible in this rendering are 25 inscribed instances of the 24-cell (above), which occur in the 600-cell as interior boundary envelopes.]]
The [[600-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small>. It has 120 vertices, 720 edges, 1200 equilateral triangle faces, and 600 tetrahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the icosahedron.
The 600-cell rounds out the 24-cell by adding 96 more vertices (four more disjoint 24-cells) between the 24-cell's existing 24 vertices, in effect adding twenty-four more distinct 24-cells inscribed in the 600-cell. The new surface thus formed is a honeycomb of smaller, more numerous cells: tetrahedra of edge length <math>\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> instead of octahedra of edge length <math>\sqrt{1}</math>. It encloses the <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges of the 24-cells, which become invisible interior chords in the 600-cell, like the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords.
Since the tetrahedra are made of shorter triangle edges than the octahedra (by a factor of <math>\phi^{-1}</math> the inverse golden ratio), the 600-cell is not radially equilateral like the 24-cell and the tesseract. Like them it is radially triangular in a special way, but one in which [[w:Golden_triangle_(mathematics)|golden triangles]] rather than equilateral triangles meet at the center.
In 2-space we have the ''radially golden'' [[W:Decagon#The golden ratio in decagon|regular decagon]]. In 3-space we have the radially golden 30-point [[W:icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]], with 6 decagon central planes. In 4-space we have the radially golden 120-point 600-cell, with 60 icosidodecahedron central hyperplanes and 72 decagon central planes.
The 600-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular [[w:Triacontagon|triacontagon {30}]]. The unit-radius planar {30}-gon has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.209</math>
:<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.416</math>
:<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.813</math>
:<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math>
:<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.338</math>
:<math>r_8=2 \cos (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.486</math>
:<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math>
:<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{11}=2 \cos (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.827</math>
:<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{13}=2 \cos (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.956</math>
:<math>r_{14}=2 \cos (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.989</math>
:<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math>
Only the chord lengths <math>r_3</math>, <math>r_5</math>, <math>r_6</math>, <math>\sqrt{2}</math>, <math>r_9</math>, <math>r_{10}</math>, <math>r_{12}</math>, <math>r_{15}</math> occur in the 600-cell, which is a construct of 24 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>r_3</math>, six of which intersect in each icosahedral vertex figure. In the skew {30}-gons the chord lengths are:
[[File:600-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the 600-cell, showing its 5 regular great circle polygons and its 8 chord lengths with angles of arc. The golden ratio governs the fractional roots of every other chord, and the radial golden triangles which meet at the center.|400x400px]]
:<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math>
:<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math>
:<math>r_8=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math>
:<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math>
:<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{11}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{13}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{14}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math>
Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation.
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |15 chords (4 distinct 180° pairs) make 4 distinct section polyhedra
|-
! colspan="3" |Edge chords
! Section
! colspan="3" |Isocline chords
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_0</math>
|0°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2}
|180°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{15}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0}}
|{{radic|4}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0
|2
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|180°
|0°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_1</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14}=2{15/7}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{14}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|168°
|12°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_2</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{13}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|156°
|24°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_3</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V1 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{12}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|144°
|36°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_4</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{11}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|132°
|48°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_5</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V2 dodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Dodecahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{10}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|120°
|60°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{6}</math>
|72°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V3 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3}
|108°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{9}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|1.382~}}
|{{radic|2.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|1.176~
|1.618~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|108°
|72°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{7}</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V4 icosidodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosidodecahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{8}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|96°
|84°
|}
The list of 600-cell chords <math>r_{i}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 8 rows with a pair of 180° complements in each row. The short edge chord and long isocline chord each have their characteristic {30/n}-gon. Each row identifies a distinct isoclinic rotation of the 600-cell.
Each distinct pair of complementary chord lengths is identified with a distinct [[w:600-cell#Polyhedral sections|polyhedral section of the 600-cell]] beginning with a vertex. In spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]], every vertex is the center of a set of 7 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>\phi^{-1}</math> is a icosahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>\sqrt{2}</math> is an [[W:Icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]] central section bisecting the 600-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>\sqrt{2}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal icosahedron vertex figure at distance <math>\sqrt{2+\phi}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 7 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section).
[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>]]
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on 15 disjoint 16-cells. Each 90° displacement takes 15 pairs of completely orthogonal invariant great square planes to each other. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. The rotational curve over each 90° chord makes three 45° turns. Fifteen Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> form a circular fibration of 15 twisted parallel strands 5{24/9}=15{8/3} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great square planes, which has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. This ''great square rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' takes place over <math>r_7</math> edge chords and <math>r_8</math> isocline chords. The {30/7} edge polygon is a skew helix of circumference <math>14\pi</math> with each <math>r_7</math> edge belonging to a distinct great square. The four {30/7} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. Each 90° displacement takes every 16-cell to another 16-cell. The vertices of the invariant great squares each make seven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/7} edge makes seven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/7} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The {30/8}=2{15/4} Clifford polygon is a compound of two skew {15/4} pentadecagrams of circumference <math>16\pi</math> with each <math>r_8</math> isocline chord belonging to a distinct 16-cell. The four {30/8} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/8} isocline chord makes eight 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/8} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
{{Clear}}
[[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> ]]
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell, over <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords, with the same effect on 5 disjoint 24-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions of its 24-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. Ten Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> form a circular fibration of ten twisted parallel strands 5{24/10}=10{12/5} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great hexagon planes, over <math>r_{4}=\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>r_{11}=\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords This ''great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. Its {30/11} Clifford polygon is a skew helix where each <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord is the <math>\sqrt{3}</math> diagonal of a great hexagon of a distinct 24-cell. The vertices of the invariant great hexagons of this rotation each make eleven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord makes eleven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/11} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>22\pi</math> over <math>r_{11}</math> chords form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in 12 Clifford parallel invariant decagon central planes containing its 36° <math>r_{3}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{12}</math> isocline chords. This ''great pentagon rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' has period 5 and takes disjoint 24-cells to each other. The rotational curve over each <math>r_{12}</math> chord of its {5/2} Clifford polygon makes twelve 12° turns. 24 Clifford parallel {5/2} pentagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>4\pi</math> over five <math>r_{12}</math> chords form a circular fibration of 24 twisted parallel strands 4{30/12}=24{5/2} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The rotation of the 600-cell by 36° in any invariant decagon central plane takes every great decagon to a Clifford parallel great decagon in a twisting displacement, as all the central planes tilt sideways 36° while rotating 36° internally. It also takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon, and every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. The 24-cells revolve within the 600-cell, as the 16-cells revolve within the 24-cells. All 120 vertices move at once on four Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 144° in different directions.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great decagon planes containing its 36° <math>r_{2}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chords. This rotation has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. The rotational curve over each 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chord makes thirteen 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/13} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>26\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
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== Finally the 120-cell ==
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |30 chords (15 180° pairs) make 15 distinct section polyhedra
|-
! colspan="3" |Edge chords
! Section
! colspan="3" |Isocline chords
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_0</math>
|0°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2}
|180°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{30}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0}}
|{{radic|4}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0
|2
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|180°
|0°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_1</math>
|15.5~°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14}
|164.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{29}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0.073~}}
|{{radic|3.927~}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0.270~
|1.982~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|168°
|12°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_2</math>
|25.2~°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13}
|154.8~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{28}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.191~}}
|{{radic|3.809~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.437~
|1.952~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|156°
|24°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_3</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{27}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|144°
|36°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_4</math>
|41.4~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|138.6~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{26}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.5}}
|{{radic|3.5}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.707~
|1.871~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|138°
|42°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_5</math>
|44.5~°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11}
|135.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{25}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0.573~}}
|{{radic|3.427~}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0.757~
|1.851~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|132°
|48°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_6</math>
|49.1~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|130.9~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{24}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.691~}}
|{{radic|3.309~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.831~
|1.819~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|128°
|52°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_7</math>
|56°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|124°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{23}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.882~}}
|{{radic|3.118~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.939~
|1.766~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|124°
|56°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_8</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{22}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|120°
|60°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_9</math>
|66.1~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|113.9~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{21}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1.191~}}
|{{radic|2.809~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1.091~
|1.676~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|116°
|64°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{10}</math>
|69.8~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|110.2~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{20}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1.309~}}
|{{radic|2.691~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1.144~
|1.640~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|112°
|68°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{11}</math>
|72°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3}
|108°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{19}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|1.382~}}
|{{radic|2.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|1.176~
|1.618~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|108°
|72°
|- style="background: palegreen; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{12}</math>
|75.5~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4}
|104.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{18}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1.5}}
|{{radic|2.5}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1.224~
|1.581~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|96°
|84°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{13}</math>
|81.1~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|98.9~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{17}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1.691~}}
|{{radic|2.309~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1.300~
|1.520~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|°
|°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{14}</math>
|84.5~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|95.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{16}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.809~}}
|{{radic|2.191~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1.345~
|1.480~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|°
|°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{15}</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{15}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|90°
|90°
|}
The [[120-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 600 vertices, 1200 edges, 720 pentagon faces, and 120 dodecahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the dodecahedron.
The [[User:Dc.samizdat/Golden chords of the 120-cell#Thirty distinguished distances|list of thirty 120-cell chords]] <math>c_{t}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 16 rows and 2 columns with a pair of 180° complements in each row. This table first appears in [[w:Regular_Polytopes_(book)|''Regular Polytopes'']] (1947),{{Sfn|Coxeter|1973|loc=Table V(v): Simplified sections of {5,3,3} beginning with a vertex|pp=300-301}} where Coxeter identified each row with a distinct [[w:120-cell#Concentric_hulls|polyhedral section of the 120-cell]] beginning with a vertex. He showed that in spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] every vertex is the center of a set of 29 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>c_1</math> is a tetrahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>c_{15}</math> is a central section bisecting the 120-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>c_{15}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal tetrahedron vertex figure at distance <math>c_{29}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 29 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section). Each section also lies completely orthogonal to a congruent section.
Only 8 of the 30 chords in the table occur in the 600-cell. The 120-cell's additional chords arise originally from the regular 5-cell 4-simplex, in its interaction with the other regular 4-polytopes that compound to make the 120-cell. Since all those polytopes except the 5-cell occur in the 600-cell, and the 600-cell and the 120-cell have the same symmetry group, the 5-cell's symmetry group is the entirety of what's new in the 120-cell.
The 120-cell is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 600-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew triacontagon {30}, but the 120-cell is a construct of 40 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>c_1</math>, two of which intersect in each tetrahedral vertex figure.
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== Conclusions ==
Fontaine and Hurley's discovery is more than a geometric formula for the reciprocal of a regular ''n''-polygon diagonal. It also yields the discrete sequence of isocline chords of the characteristic isoclinic rotation of a ''d''-dimensional polytope. The characteristic rotational chord sequence of the ''d''-polytope can be represented geometrically in two dimensions on a distinct star polygon, but it lies on a geodesic circle through ''d''-dimensional space. Fontaine and Hurley discovered the geodesic topology of polytopes generally. Their procedure will reveal the geodesics of arbitrary non-uniform polytopes, since it can be applied to a polytope of any dimensionality and irregularity, by first fitting the polytope to the smallest regular polygon whose chords include its chords. [If what is meant by this is its Petrie polygon, it is not quite necessary or possible with respect to the planar polygon chords, e.g. the planar Petrie polygon of the 600-cell does not contain the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chord. But perhaps it would work if the fit is to the smallest regular skew polygon in the ''d''-space.]
The discovery of a chordal construction for discrete isoclinic rotations generally closes the circuit on Kappraff and Adamson's discovery of a rotational connection between dynamical systems, Steinbach's golden fields, and Coxeter's Euclidean geometry of reflections in ''n'' dimensions. Application of the Fontaine and Hurley procedure to the 120-cell demonstrates why the connection exists: because polytope sequences generally, from Steinbach's golden chord sequences in polygons, to sequences of star polygons in isoclinic rotations, to subsumption relations in the sequence of regular 4-polytopes, arise as expressions of the reflections and rotations of distinct Coxeter symmetry groups, when those various groups interact.
== Appendix: Sequence of regular 4-polytopes ==
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== Notes ==
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== Citations ==
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== References ==
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* {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=1997 | title=Golden fields: A case for the Heptagon | journal=Mathematics Magazine | volume=70 | issue=Feb 1997 | pages=22–31 | doi=10.1080/0025570X.1997.11996494 | jstor=2691048 | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|1997}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=2000 | title=Sections Beyond Golden| journal=Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music and Science | issue=2000 | pages=35-44 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2000/bridges2000-35.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|2000}}}}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Jablan | first2=Slavik | last3=Adamson | first3=Gary | last4=Sazdanovich | first4=Radmila | year=2004 | title=Golden Fields, Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, and Chaotic Matrices | journal=Forma | volume=19 | pages=367-387 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2005/bridges2005-369.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff, Jablan, Adamson & Sazdanovich|2004}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Adamson | first2=Gary | year=2004 | title=Polygons and Chaos | journal=Dynamical Systems and Geometric Theories | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2001/bridges2001-67.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff & Adamson|2004}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Fontaine | first1=Anne | last2=Hurley | first2=Susan | year=2006 | title=Proof by Picture: Products and Reciprocals of Diagonal Length Ratios in the Regular Polygon | journal=Forum Geometricorum | volume=6 | pages=97-101 | url=https://scispace.com/pdf/proof-by-picture-products-and-reciprocals-of-diagonal-length-1aian8mgp9.pdf }}
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= Golden chords of the 120-cell =
{{align|center|David Brooks Christie}}
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<blockquote>Steinbach discovered the formula for the ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. Fontaine and Hurley extended this result, discovering a formula for the reciprocal of a regular polygon chord derived geometrically from the chord's star polygon. We observe that these findings in plane geometry apply more generally, to polytopes of any dimensionality. Fontaine and Hurley's geometric procedure for finding the reciprocals of the chords of a regular polygon from their star polygons also finds the rotational geodesics of any polytope of any dimensionality.</blockquote>
== Introduction ==
Steinbach discovered the Diagonal Product Formula and the Golden Fields family of ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. He showed how this family extends beyond the pentagon {5} with its well-known golden bisection proportional to 𝜙, finding that the heptagon {7} has an analogous trisection, the nonagon {9} has an analogous quadrasection, and the hendecagon {11} has an analogous pentasection, an extended family of golden proportions with quasiperiodic properties.
Kappraff and Adamson extended these findings in plane geometry to a theory of Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, showing that the Golden Fields not only do not end with the hendecagon, they form an infinite number of periodic trajectories when operated on by the Mandelbrot operator. They found a relation between the edges of star polygons and dynamical systems in the state of chaos, revealing a connection between chaos theory, number, and rotations in Coxeter Euclidean geometry.
Fontaine and Hurley examined Steinbach's finding that the length of each chord of a regular polygon is both the product of two chords and the sum of a set of smaller chords, so that in rotations to add is to multiply. They illustrated Steinbach's sets of additive chords lying parallel to each other in the plane (pointing in the same direction), and by applying Steinbach's formula more generally they found another summation relation of signed parallel chords (pointing in opposite directions) which relates each chord length to its reciprocal, and relates the summation to a distinct star polygon rotation.
We examine these remarkable findings (which stem from study of the chords of humble regular polygons) in higher-dimensional spaces, specifically in the chords, polygons and rotations of the [[120-cell]], the largest four-dimensional regular convex polytope.
== Visualizing the 120-cell ==
{| class="wikitable floatright" width="400"
|style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:120-cell.gif|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point 120-cell <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small> performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]].{{Sfn|Hise|2011|loc=File:120-cell.gif|ps=; "Created by Jason Hise with Maya and Macromedia Fireworks. A 3D projection of a 120-cell performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]]."}} In this simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges are shown; its 29 interior chords are not rendered. Therefore even though it is translucent, only its outer surface is visible. The complex interior parts of the 120-cell, all its inscribed 5-cells, 16-cells, 8-cells, 24-cells, 600-cells and its much larger inventory of polyhedra, are completely invisible in this view, as none of their edges are rendered at all.
|style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:Ortho solid 016-uniform polychoron p33-t0.png|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point [[W:Great grand stellated 120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] <small><math>\{\tfrac{5}{2},3,3\}</math></small>.{{Sfn|Ruen: Great grand stellated 120-cell|2007}} The 120-cell is its convex hull. The projection to the left renders only the 120-cell's shortest chord, its 1200 edges. The projection above also renders only one of the 120-cell's 30 chords, the edges of its 120 inscribed regular 5-cells. The 120-cell itself (the convex hull) is invisible in this view, as its edges are not rendered.
|}
[[120-cell#Geometry|The 120-cell is the maximally complex regular 4-polytope]], containing inscribed instances of every regular 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-polytope, except the regular polygons of more than {15} sides.
The 120-cell is the convex hull of a regular [[120-cell#Relationships among interior polytopes|compound of each of the 6 regular convex 4-polytopes]]. They are the [[5-cell|5-point (5-cell) 4-simplex]], the [[16-cell|8-point (16-cell) 4-orthoplex]], the [[W:Tesseract|16-point (8-cell) tesseract]], the [[24-cell|24-point (24-cell)]], the [[600-cell|120-point (600-cell)]], and the [[120-cell|600-point (120-cell)]]. The 120-cell is the convex hull of a compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells, of 75 disjoint 16-cells, of 25 disjoint 24-cells, and of 5 disjoint 600-cells.
The 120-cell contains an even larger inventory of irregular polytopes, created by the intersection of multiple instances of these component regular 4-polytopes. Many are quite unexpected, because they do not occur as components of any regular polytope smaller than the 120-cell. As just one example among the [[120-cell#Concentric hulls|sections of the 120-cell]], there is an irregular 24-point polyhedron with 16 triangle faces and 4 nonagon {9} faces.{{Sfn|Moxness|}}
Most renderings of the 120-cell, like the rotating projection here, only illustrate its outer surface, which is a honeycomb of face-bonded dodecahedral cells. Only the objects in its 3-dimensional surface are rendered, namely the 120 dodecahedra, their pentagon faces, and their edges. Although the 120-cell has chords of 30 distinct lengths, in this kind of simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges (its shortest chord) are shown. Its 29 interior chords, the edges of objects in the interior of the 120-cell, are not rendered, so interior objects are not visible at all.
Visualizing the complete interior of the 600-vertex 120-cell in a single image is impractical because of its complexity. Only four 120-cell edges are incident at each vertex, but [[120-cell#Chords|600 chords (of all 30 lengths)]] are incident at ''each'' vertex.
== Compounds in the 120-cell ==
The 8-point (16-cell), not the 5-point (5-cell) 4-simplex, is the smallest building block; it compounds to every larger regular 4-polytope. The 5-point (5-cell) does compound to the 600-point (120-cell), but it does not fit into any smaller regular 4-polytope.
The 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 2 in the 16-point (8-cell), and by 3 in the 24-point (24-cell). The 16-point (8-cell) compounds in the 24-point (24-cell) by 3 non-disjoint instances of itself, with each of the 24 vertices shared by two 16-point (8-cells). The 24-point (24-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell), and the 120-point (600-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell).
The 24-point (24-cell) also compounds by 5<sup>2</sup> non-disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell); it compounds in 5 disjoint instances of itself, 10 (not 5) different ways. Whichever set of 5 disjoint 24-point (24-cells) are assembled, the resulting 120-point (600-cell) contains 25 distinct 24-point (24-cells), not just 5 (or 10). Consequently 15 disjoint 8-point (16-cells) will construct a 120-point (600-cell), which contains 75 distinct 8-point (16-cells).
The 600-point (120-cell) is 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), just 2 different ways (not 5 or 10 ways), so it is 10 distinct 120-point (600-cells). Consequently the 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 3 times 5<sup>2</sup> (75) disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell), which contains 3<sup>2</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (225) distinct instances of the 24-point (24-cell), and 3<sup>3</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (675) distinct instances of the 8-point (16-cell).
These facts were discovered painstakingly by various researchers, and no one has found a general rule governing subsumption relations among regular polytopes. The reasons for some of their numeric incidence relations are far from obvious. [[W:Pieter Hendrik Schoute|Schoute]] was the first to see that the 120-point (600-cell) is a compound of 5 24-point (24-cells) ''10 different ways'', and after he saw it a hundred years lapsed until Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne proved his result, and showed why.{{Sfn|Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne|2020|loc=''The geometry of H4 polytopes''}}
So much for the compounds of 16-cells. The 120-cell is also the convex hull of the compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells. That stellated compound (without its convex hull of 120-cell edges) is the [[w:Great_grand_stellated_120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] illustrated above, the final regular [[W:Stellation|stellation]] of the 120-cell, and the only [[W:Schläfli-Hess polychoron|regular star 4-polytope]] to have the 120-cell for its convex hull. The edges of the great grand stellated 120-cell are <math>\phi^6</math> as long as those of its 120-cell [[W:List of polyhedral stellations#Stellation process|stellation core]] deep inside.
The compound of 120 disjoint 5-point (5-cells) can be seen to be equivalent to the compound of 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), as follows. Beginning with a single 120-point (600-cell), expand each vertex into a regular 5-cell, by adding 4 new equidistant vertices, such that the 5 vertices form a regular 5-cell inscribed in the 3-sphere. The 120 5-cells are disjoint, and the 600 vertices form 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells): a 120-cell.
== Thirty distinguished distances ==
The 30 numbers listed in the table are all-important in Euclidean geometry. A case can be made on symmetry grounds that their squares are the 30 most important numbers between 0 and 4. The 30 rows of the table are the 30 distinct [[120-cell#Geodesic rectangles|chord lengths of the unit-radius 120-cell]], the largest regular convex 4-polytope. Since the 120-cell subsumes all smaller regular polytopes, its 30 chords are the complete chord set of all the regular polytopes that can be constructed in the first four dimensions of Euclidean space, except for regular polygons of more than 15 sides.
{| class="wikitable" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
!rowspan=2|<math>c_t</math>
!rowspan=2|arc
!rowspan=2|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{n}\right\}</math></small>
!rowspan=2|<math>\left\{p\right\}</math>
!rowspan=2|<small><math>m\left\{\frac{k}{d}\right\}</math></small>
!rowspan=2|Steinbach roots
!colspan=7|Chord lengths of the unit 120-cell
|-
!colspan=5|unit-radius length <math>c_t</math>
!colspan=2|unit-edge length <math>c_t/c_1</math><br>in 120-cell of radius <math>c_8=\sqrt{2}\phi^2</math>
|-
|<small><math>c_{1,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>15.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>c_{4,1}-c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.270091</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi ^2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^4}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.072949}</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1.</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>25.2{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>2 \left\{15\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(c_{18,1}-c_{4,1}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{3-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.437016</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.190983}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi </math></small>
|<small><math>1.61803</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{3,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>36{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{10\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>3 \left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right) c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>0.618034</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.381966}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>2.28825</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>41.4{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.707107</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.61803</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{5,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>44.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{4}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>2 \left\{\frac{15}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.756934</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}}{\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.572949}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>2.80252</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{6,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>49.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{17}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.831254</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5}}{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.690983}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>3.07768</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{7,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>56.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.93913</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.881966}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>3.47709</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>60{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1.</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>3.70246</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{9,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>66.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{2 \phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.09132</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.19098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>4.04057</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{10,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>69.8{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2 \sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.14412</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\phi }{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^2}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>4.23607</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{11,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>72{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{6}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.17557</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.38197}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \sqrt{3-\phi } \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.3525</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{12,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>75.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{24}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.22474</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.53457</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{13,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>81.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.30038</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.69098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.8146</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{14,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>84.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{9}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi } c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{1+\sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.345</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi }}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5} \phi }{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>4.9798</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{15,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>90.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.41421</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>5.23607</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{16,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>95.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{29}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.4802</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.19098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>5.48037</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{17,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>98.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{31}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.51954</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(7+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>5.62605</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{18,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>104.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{8}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{4}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.58114</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{5} \sqrt{\phi ^4}</math></small>
|<small><math>5.8541</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{19,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>108.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{9}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>c_{3,1}+c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>1.61803</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi </math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1+\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.61803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>5.9907</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{20,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>110.2{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.64042</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.69098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\phi ^2}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.07359</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{21,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>113.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{19}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.67601</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\chi }{\phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.20537</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{22,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>120{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{10}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.73205</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{6} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>6.41285</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{23,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>124.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{41}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }+\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.7658</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.11803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.53779</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{24,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>130.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.81907</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\sqrt{5}}{\phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.73503</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{25,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>135.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.85123</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\phi ^2}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^4}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.42705}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^4</math></small>
|<small><math>6.8541</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{26,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>138.6{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{12}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.87083</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{7} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>6.92667</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{27,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>144{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{12}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{5}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.90211</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\phi +2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2+\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.61803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{2 \phi +4}</math></small>
|<small><math>7.0425</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{28,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>154.8{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.95167</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>7.22598</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{29,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>164.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{14}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi c_{12,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>1.98168</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3 \phi ^2}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.92705}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>7.33708</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{30,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>180{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{15}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.</math></small>
|<small><math>2</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4.}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 \sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>7.40492</math></small>
|-
|rowspan=4 colspan=6|
|rowspan=4 colspan=4|
<small><math>\phi</math></small> is the golden ratio:<br>
<small><math>\phi ^2-\phi -1=0</math></small><br>
<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }+1=\phi</math></small>, and: <small><math>\phi+1=\phi^2</math></small><br>
<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }::1::\phi ::\phi ^2</math></small><br>
<small><math>1/\phi</math></small> and <small><math>\phi</math></small> are the golden sections of <small><math>\sqrt{5}</math></small>:<br>
<small><math>\phi +\frac{1}{\phi }=\sqrt{5}</math></small>
|colspan=2|<small><math>\phi = (\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>1.618034</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\chi = (3\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>3.854102</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = (3\sqrt{5} - 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.854102</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = 11/\chi = 22/(3\sqrt{5} + 1)</math></small>
|<small><math>2.854102</math></small>
|}
== The 16-cell 4-orthoplex ==
In 2-space we have the regular 8-point octagon, in 3-space the regular 8-point cube, and in 4-space the regular 8-point [[16-cell]].
A planar octagon with rigid edges of unit length has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1,r_2=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_3=\sqrt{2}+1 \approx 2.414,r_4=\sqrt{4 + \sqrt{8}} \approx 2.613</math>
The chord ratio <math>r_3=\sqrt{2}+1</math> is a geometrical proportion, the [[W:Silver ratio|silver ratio]]. Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that:
:<math>r_3-r_1-r_1=1/r_3 \approx 0.414</math>
Note that <math>r_3-2=1/r_3=\sqrt{2}-1</math>. Their procedure rotates counterclockwise over three <math>r_3</math> chords of an {8/3} octagram. Over the first <math>r_3</math> chord the displacement is <math>\sqrt{2}+1</math>. Over the second <math>r_3</math> chord it moves in the opposite direction a distance of <math>-1</math> . Over the third <math>r_3</math> chord it also moves a distance of <math>-1</math>. Fontaine and Hurley also demonstrated the significance of <math>1/r_i</math> in Steinbach's Diagonal Product Formula, which says that every chord length is the sum of certain smaller chord lengths. The smaller chords are certain diagonals of the same regular polygon of a smaller edge length, specifically edge length <math>1/r_i</math> rather than <math>1</math>.
If we embed the planar octagon in 3-space, we can make it skew, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from three others instead of two others, at the vertices of a unit-edge cube with chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1, r_2=\sqrt{2}, r_3=\sqrt{3}, r_4=\sqrt{2}</math>
If we embed this cube in 4-space, we can skew it some more, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from six others instead of three others, at the vertices of a unit-edge 4-polytope with chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1,r_2=1,r_3=1,r_4=\sqrt{2}</math>
All of its chords except its long diameters are the same unit length as its edge. In fact they are its 24 edges, and it is a 16-cell of radius <math>1/\sqrt{2}</math>.
[[File:octagon16cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of a regular 16-cell to the [[16-cell#Projections|B<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only its edges are shown; its long diameter chords are not drawn. All 24 edges are the same length and none lie parallel to the projection plane. The octagon circumference is a Petrie polygon. The two disjoint squares lie in completely orthogonal central planes. The blue octagram is a Clifford polygon. ]]
The [[16-cell]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small>. It has 8 vertices, 24 edges, 32 equilateral triangle faces, and 16 regular tetrahedron cells. It is the [[16-cell#Octahedral dipyramid|four-dimensional analogue of the octahedron]], and each of its four orthogonal central hyperplanes is an octahedron.
The only planar regular polygons found in the 16-cell are face triangles and central plane squares, but the 16-cell also contains a skew regular octagon, its [[W:Petrie polygon|Petrie polygon]].{{Efn|name=Petrie polygon of a honeycomb}} The chords of this regular octagon, which lies skew in 4-space, are those given above for the 16-cell, as opposed to those for the cube or the regular octagon in the plane. The 16-cell is a construct of 3 Petrie octagons which share the same 8 vertices but have disjoint sets of 8 edges each.
The regular octad has higher symmetry in 4-space than it does in 2-space. The 16-cell is the 4-[[w:Cross-polytope|orthoplex]], the simplest regular 4-polytope after the [[5-cell|4-simplex]]. All the larger regular convex 4-polytopes are compounds of the 16-cell. The regular octagon exhibits this high symmetry only when embedded in 4-space at the vertices of the 16-cell.
The 16-cell constitutes an [[W:Orthonormal basis|orthonormal basis]] for the choice of a 4-dimensional Cartesian reference frame, because its vertices define four orthogonal axes. The eight vertices of a unit-radius 16-cell are (±1, 0, 0, 0), (0, ±1, 0, 0), (0, 0, ±1, 0), (0, 0, 0, ±1). All vertices are connected by <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges except opposite pairs.
The vertex coordinates of the 16-cell form 6 central squares lying in 6 pairwise [[W:Orthogonal|orthogonal]] coordinate planes. Great squares in opposite planes that do not share an axis (e.g. in the ''xy'' and ''wz'' planes) are completely disjoint (they do not intersect at any vertices). These planes are [[W:Completely orthogonal|completely orthogonal]].{{Efn|name=Six orthogonal planes of the Cartesian basis}}
Since the unit-radius coordinate system is convenient, let us derive the unit-radius 16-cell by skewing a unit-radius planar octagon, which has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{2-\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.765,r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_4=2</math>
We will need a planar octagon with rigid <math>r_2</math> chords, rather than one with rigid <math>r_1</math> edges. The octagon's <math>r_2</math> chords form two disjoint great squares, visible in the orthogonal projection, which we can reposition in 3-space to form a cube by making them parallel, and in 4-space to form a 16-cell by making them completely orthogonal.
Each chord is a distinct 4-vector with a length and a direction. Since the edges of the 16-cell are all the same length <math>r_1=\sqrt{2},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2}</math>, those chords are distinct only in the context of a rotation, where vertices circle over the chords of an <math>r_i</math> polygon. The rotational curve over each <math>r_i</math> chord makes <math>i</math> 45° turns. The angle between two <math>r_i</math> chords is <math>180^\circ - i \times 45^\circ</math>.
[[File:16-cell-orig.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 8-point 16-cell <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small> performing a double rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}}]]
[[W:Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space|Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space]] can be seen as the composition of two 2-dimensional rotations in completely orthogonal planes. The general rotation in 4-space is a [[W:SO(4)#Double rotations|double rotation]] in pairs of completely orthogonal planes. Two completely orthogonal planes are called invariant planes of the rotation when all points in the plane rotate on circles that remain in the plane, even as the whole plane tilts sideways (like a coin flipping) into another plane. The two completely orthogonal rotations of each plane (like a wheel, and like a coin flipping) are simultaneous but independent, in that they are not geometrically constrained to turn at the same rate. However, the most circular kind of rotation (as opposed to an elliptical double rotation of a rigid spherical object) occurs when the completely orthogonal planes do rotate through the same angle in the same time interval. Such equi-angled double rotations are called [[w:SO(4)#Isoclinic_rotations|isoclinic]], also [[w:William_Kingdon_Clifford|Clifford]] displacements.
The <math>r_1</math> chords of the 16-cell form a Petrie polygon {8/1} which zig-zags back and forth, in the left and right rotational directions, between two completely orthogonal great squares formed by <math>r_2</math> chords.
The <math>r_2</math> chords of the 16-cell form an ''edge polygon'' {8/2}=2{4}. The two completely orthogonal great squares lie parallel and perpendicular to each other. A ''simple'' rotation of the 16-cell in ''one'' of those two square central planes rotates that square like a wheel, while the other square does not move.{{Efn|name=simple rotations}} The four vertices of the rotating square orbit on a great circle in the plane.
The <math>r_3</math> chords of the 16-cell form a circular helix, visible as a blue {8/3} octagram in the orthogonal projection. A ''double'' rotation of the 16-cell, in both of two completely orthogonal invariant <math>r_2</math> square planes at once by equal angles, moves the eight vertices along the circular helix over <math>r_3</math> chords. The vertex motion is a [[w:Geodesic|geodesic]] circle orbit on the 3-sphere of a special kind: it does not lie in a central plane, its [[w:Winding_number|winding number]] is not 1 (it is 3 in this case), its circumference is not <math>2\pi</math> (it is <math>6\pi</math> in this case), and it moves in either a left or right handed circular spiral. We shall refer to such a chiral circle orbit as an ''isocline'', and to the skew polygram of its rotational chords as a ''Clifford polygon''.
The 16-cell is the simplest possible frame in which to [[16-cell#Rotations|observe 4-dimensional rotations]] because its characteristic rotations feature a single pair of invariant rotation planes. In the 16-cell an isoclinic rotation by 90° in any pair of invariant completely orthogonal square central planes takes every great square to its completely orthogonal great square in a twisting displacement, as the invariant planes tilt sideways 90° into each other's plane while rotating 90° internally. All the vertices move at once along the same circular helix geodesic isocline of <math>r_3</math> chords, displaced 90° in 8 orthogonal directions, and the rigid 16-cell assumes a new orientation in 4-space. When the 90° isoclinic rotation is continued in the same rotational direction through an additional 90°, each vertex is again displaced 90°, but from the new orientation in a direction orthogonal to its first 90° displacement. The rotational curve over each 90° <math>r_3</math> chord makes three 45° turns. In 360° of isoclinic rotation over four <math>r_3</math> chords, each vertex makes twelve 45° turns and reaches its antipodal position.
The trajectory of each vertex over each 90° isoclinic rotational displacement is a one-eighth segment of its geodesic orbit. Its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over eight <math>r_3</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane twice, over the four <math>r_2</math> edges of a great square in one of the two moving invariant rotation planes. In the course of a 720° isoclinic revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 16-cell returns to its original orientation.
We shall refer to this isoclinic rotation as the ''great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell'', and note once again that it is Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_3</math> {8/3} star polygon, which constructs <math>1/r_3</math>.
== The 8-cell tesseract ==
The long diameter of the unit-edge [[W:Hypercube|hypercube]] of dimension <math>n</math> is <math>\sqrt{n}</math>, so the unit-edge [[w:Tesseract|4-hypercube, the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract,]] has chords:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math>
Uniquely in its 4-dimensional case, the hypercube's edge length equals its radius, like the hexagon. We call such polytopes ''radially equilateral'', because they can be constructed from equilateral triangles which meet at their center, each contributing two radii and an edge. The [[w:Cuboctahedron|cuboctahedron]] and the 24-cell are also radially equilateral.
[[File:8-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation about a plane in 4-space.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The stationary plane bisects the figure from front-left to back-right and top to bottom.]]
The [[W:Tesseract|tesseract]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 16 vertices, 32 edges, 24 square faces, and 8 cube cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cube.
The 16-point tesseract is the convex hull of a compound of two 8-point 16-cells, in exact dimensional analogy to the way the 8-point cube is the convex hull of a [[W:Stellated octahedron|compound of two 4-point regular tetrahedrons]]. The [[W:Demihypercube|demihypercubes]] occupy alternate vertices of the hypercubes. The diagonals of the square faces of the unit-edge, unit-radius tesseract are the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges of two unit-radius 16-cells, also the edges of the square central planes.
We can rotate the tesseract isoclinically the way we rotated the 16-cell, by 90° in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on both alternate-position 16-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cell. The two skew {8/3} octagram Clifford polygons lie on two disjoint parallel isoclines of the same chirality, of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chords. They form a circular double helix which intersects each vertex of the tesseract once. The double helix is an 8-rung ladder twisted around 3 times, and bent into a circle in the fourth dimension with its ends joined. Each rung is a <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chord.
The tesseract is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 16-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew octagon, but the tesseract is a construct of 4 Petrie octagons with disjoint sets of 8 tesseract edges each. We can construct the tesseract by skewing two planar octagons. Because the tesseract is radially equilateral (unlike the 16-cell), we use two octagons of unit-edge length to build the unit-radius tesseract. To start we embed the planar octagons in 4-space at the same point and make them completely orthogonal. Then we skew each planar octagon into a cube, so we have a compound of two completely orthogonal cubes, provided we skewed them both in the same direction. The 16 vertices will be the vertices of a tesseract with half its 32 edges missing.
Because the tesseract contains two 16-cells in alternate positions it has two sets of 6 orthogonal square central planes. Two angles are required to specify the relationship between two planes in 4-space. Pairs of square central planes within each 16-cell are 90° apart in one angle, and either 0° or 90° apart in the other angle. They are 90° apart in both angles if and only if they are completely orthogonal planes, 90° apart by isoclinic rotation, with no vertices in common and their corresponding pairs of vertices 180° apart. Otherwise they are 0° apart in one of the angles, 90° apart by simple rotation, and they intersect in one axis and lie in a common 3-dimensional hyperplane.{{Efn|A double rotation in which one of the two angles of rotation is 0°, so that one of the completely orthogonal invariant planes does not rotate, is called a simple rotation. Ordinary rotations observed in a 3-dimensional space are simple rotations.|name=simple rotations}}
A pair of square central planes from alternate-position 16-cells are 60° apart by isoclinic rotation, with their corresponding pairs of vertices 120° apart. The planes are not orthogonal or parallel, so they intersect in a line somewhere, but they have no vertices in common, they have no 3-dimensional hyperplane in common, and they cannot reach each other by simple rotation. Such pairs of objects are called [[W:Clifford parallel|Clifford parallel]] because all their corresponding pairs of vertices are the same distance apart, although they are not parallel in the usual sense, because they have a common center. Not only the alternate-position 16-cells' corresponding square central planes, but also the 16-cells themselves, are Clifford parallel objects. More generally, multiple disjoint instances of a 4-polytope which compound to make a larger 4-polytope are Clifford parallel objects.
== The 24-cell ==
[[File:24-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the radially equilateral 24-cell, showing its 3 great circle polygons and its 4 chord lengths.]]
In 2-space we have the radially equilateral 6-point hexagon. In 3-space we have the radially equilateral 12-point cuboctahedron, with 4 hexagonal central planes. In 4-space we have the radially equilateral 24-point 24-cell, with 12 cuboctahedron central hyperplanes and 16 hexagonal central planes.
The [[24-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small>. It has 24 vertices, 96 edges, 96 equilateral triangle faces, and 24 octahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cuboctahedron.
The 24-cell has the same chord set as the 4-hypercube tesseract:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math>
[[Image:24-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 24-point 24-cell <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 24 octahedra is visible.]]
The 24-cell is [[W:Dual polytope|self-dual]], like the regular polygons and regular simplexes. It is the maximal regular construct of triangles and squares (with no pentagons). It is the convex hull of a compound of three disjoint 8-point 16-cells, rotated 60° isoclinically with respect to each other. Each of the three pairs of 16-cells is a tesseract. Each 24-cell edge is also a tesseract edge. The corresponding vertices of two 16-cells or two tesseracts are 120° apart by a <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chord. Each tesseract has 8 cube cells, and each cube has four <math>\sqrt{3}</math> long diameters. The <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords joining the corresponding vertices of two tesseracts belong to the third tesseract as cell long diameters.
The 24-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular dodecagon {12}. The unit-radius planar {12}-gon has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}-1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.518,r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}+1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.932,r_6=\sqrt{4}</math>
Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that:
:<math>r_5-r_3+r_1+r_1-r_3=1/r_5</math>
when <math>r_1=1</math>. In the system of unit-radius coordinates <math>r_1=1/r_5</math>. The procedure rotates counterclockwise over five <math>r_5</math> chords of a {12/5} dodecagram.
The <math>r_1</math> and <math>r_5</math> chords of the planar dodecagon do not occur in the 24-cell, which is a construct of eight skew dodecagons with disjoint sets of twelve <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges each. In the skew dodecagons the chord lengths are:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\sqrt{3},r_6=\sqrt{4}</math>
Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation.
The <math>r_1</math> <small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small> chords form 8 Petrie dodecagons which zig-zag back and forth, in the left and right rotational directions, between two Clifford parallel great hexagons formed by <math>r_2</math> chords. The 8 Petrie dodecagons can be divided four ways into 2 disjoint Petrie dodecagons {24/2}=2{12}.
The <math>r_2</math> <small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small> chords form 16 great hexagons, which can be divided four ways into 4 Clifford parallel great hexagons {24/4}=4{6}.
The <math>r_3</math> <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chords form 18 great squares, which can be divided three ways into 6 Clifford parallel great squares {24/6}=6{4}, including one pair of completely orthogonal great squares from each of the three 16-cells.
The <math>r_4</math> <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords form 32 great triangles, which can be divided four ways into 8 disjoint great triangles {24/8}=8{3} inscribed in 4 Clifford parallel great hexagons.
The <math>r_5</math> <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords form 8 circular helix Clifford polygons, visible as a green {12/5} dodecagram in the orthogonal projection. An isoclinic rotation of the 24-cell in 4 invariant <math>r_2</math> hexagon planes moves the vertices along 2 Clifford parallel circular isoclines {24/2}=2{12/5} over <math>r_5</math> chords.
[[File:dodecagon24cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of half a 24-cell to the [[24-cell#Geodesics|F<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only one Petrie dodecagon {12} of the 24-cell is shown. In a unit-radius 24-cell, all black lines are 24-cell edges of unit length, also tesseract edges. The two disjoint hexagons lie in Clifford parallel central planes. Blue chords are <math>\sqrt{2}</math> 16-cell edges of Clifford parallel great squares, also isocline chords in great square rotations. Green chords are <math>\sqrt{3}</math> distances between corresponding vertices of two 16-cells, also isocline chords in great hexagon rotations. The green {12/5} dodecagram is a Clifford polygon.]]
[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} shows three octagram isoclines of <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math> </small>chords in the 24-cell]]
We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 6 Clifford parallel invariant great square planes containing 16-cell edges, in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on all three 16-cells. In 720° each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cells. The rotational curve over each 90° <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chord makes three 45° turns. Three Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chords form a circular triple helix {24/9}=3{8/3} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. The triple helix is an 8-step circular staircase that twists around 3 times, and is bent into a torus in the fourth dimension. Each staircase step is a great triangle of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords.
[[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} shows 2 dodecagram isoclines of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords in the 24-cell]]We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 4 Clifford parallel invariant great hexagon planes containing 24-cell edges, over <math>r_{5}</math> isocline chords. This is the ''great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell'', also Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_5</math> {12/5} star polygon which constructs <math>1/r_5</math>. A complete 24-cell great circle edge plane revolution requires 720° like a complete 16-cell great circle edge plane revolution, but it is completed in 12 isoclinic displacements of 60° each rather than 8 isoclinic displacements of 90° each. An isoclinic rotation by 60° in an invariant central plane containing a 24-cell edge takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon in a twisting displacement, as 4 invariant great hexagon planes tilt sideways 60° while rotating 60° internally. It also takes every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. All 24 vertices move at once on Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 120° in different directions. The trajectory of each vertex over each 60° rotational displacement is a one-twelfth segment of its geodesic orbit. Its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space over 12 <math>r_5</math> <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane 5 times in a moving invariant rotation plane. The rotational curve over each <math>r_5</math> 120° chord makes five 30° turns. Two Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> form a circular double helix {24/10}=2{12/5} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 24-cell returns to its original orientation.
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |6 distinct 180° chord pairs make 6 distinct isoclinic rotations
|-
! colspan="3" |Edge chords
!Invariant planes
! colspan="3" |Isocline chords
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_1</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_24.svg|100px]]<br>{24/1}={24}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-11.svg|100px]]<br>{24/11}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{11}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|165°
|15°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_2</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/2}=2{12}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_4(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/4}=4{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,5).svg|100px]]<br>{24/10}=2{12/5}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{10}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|150°
|30°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_3</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/3}=3{8}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|100px]]<br>{24/9}=3{8/3}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{9}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|135°
|45°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_4</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_4(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/4}=4{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_12(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/12}=12{2}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_8(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/8}=8{3}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{8}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|120°
|60°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_5</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-5.svg|100px]]<br>{24/5}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-7.svg|100px]]<br>{24/7}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{7}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|105°
|75°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_6</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{6}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|90°
|90°
|}
By examining the chords <math>r_i</math> of the 24-cell's Petrie {12}-gon we have found two distinct isoclinic rotations, the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell and the great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell. If we examine the chords <math>t_i</math> of the 24-cell's {24}-gon we find these, and also four other distinct isoclinic rotations.
Each row of the table describes a distinct isoclinic rotation of the 24-cell characterized by a pair of chords whose arc-lengths sum to 180°. Each chord lies in a central plane which is either a great square or a great hexagon. Each short edge chord plane is completely orthogonal to a corresponding long isocline chord plane. These central planes are not to be confused with the invariant planes of the rotation, which intersect 0, 2, 4, or 6 vertices as illustrated in each row.
The edge chord and isocline chord each have their characteristic {24/''n''}-gon, which correspond as projections of the 24-cell to completely orthogonal planes. Their projection viewpoints look straight down orthogonal cylinders which are actually [[w:SO(4)#Visualization_of_4D_rotations|bent into tori in 4-space]]. Each {24/''n''}-gon forms ''n'' disjoint Clifford parallel regular polygons. Polygons with {2}, {3}, {4} or {6} sides lie in a central plane, and all others lie skew in 4-space. The rotational angle between successive edge chords and the rotational angle between successive isocline chords sum to 180°. Those angles distinguish distinct chords <math>t_i</math> which are the same length.
Each isoclinic rotation takes two chiral forms. There is a ''right rotation'' and a ''left rotation'' for each row of the table. The right rotation takes Clifford parallel edge polygons to each other, while the isocline polygons remain stationary as vertices circle over them. In the left rotation the roles of the edge chord polygon and the isocline chord polygon are reversed: the edge chord polygon is stationary in 4-space as vertices circle over it, and the rotation takes Clifford parallel isocline polygons to each other.
{{Clear}}
== The 600-cell ==
[[Image:600-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 120-point 600-cell <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2011}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 600 tetrahedra is visible. Invisible in this rendering are 25 inscribed instances of the 24-cell (above), which occur in the 600-cell as interior boundary envelopes.]]
The [[600-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small>. It has 120 vertices, 720 edges, 1200 equilateral triangle faces, and 600 tetrahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the icosahedron.
The 600-cell rounds out the 24-cell by adding 96 more vertices (four more disjoint 24-cells) between the 24-cell's existing 24 vertices, in effect adding twenty-four more distinct 24-cells inscribed in the 600-cell. The new surface thus formed is a honeycomb of smaller, more numerous cells: tetrahedra of edge length <math>\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> instead of octahedra of edge length <math>\sqrt{1}</math>. It encloses the <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges of the 24-cells, which become invisible interior chords in the 600-cell, like the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords.
Since the tetrahedra are made of shorter triangle edges than the octahedra (by a factor of <math>\phi^{-1}</math> the inverse golden ratio), the 600-cell is not radially equilateral like the 24-cell and the tesseract. Like them it is radially triangular in a special way, but one in which [[w:Golden_triangle_(mathematics)|golden triangles]] rather than equilateral triangles meet at the center.
In 2-space we have the ''radially golden'' [[W:Decagon#The golden ratio in decagon|regular decagon]]. In 3-space we have the radially golden 30-point [[W:icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]], with 6 decagon central planes. In 4-space we have the radially golden 120-point 600-cell, with 60 icosidodecahedron central hyperplanes and 72 decagon central planes.
The 600-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular [[w:Triacontagon|triacontagon {30}]]. The unit-radius planar {30}-gon has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.209</math>
:<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.416</math>
:<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.813</math>
:<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math>
:<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.338</math>
:<math>r_8=2 \cos (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.486</math>
:<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math>
:<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{11}=2 \cos (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.827</math>
:<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{13}=2 \cos (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.956</math>
:<math>r_{14}=2 \cos (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.989</math>
:<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math>
Only the chord lengths <math>r_3</math>, <math>r_5</math>, <math>r_6</math>, <math>\sqrt{2}</math>, <math>r_9</math>, <math>r_{10}</math>, <math>r_{12}</math>, <math>r_{15}</math> occur in the 600-cell, which is a construct of 24 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>r_3</math>, six of which intersect in each icosahedral vertex figure. In the skew {30}-gons the chord lengths are:
[[File:600-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the 600-cell, showing its 5 regular great circle polygons and its 8 chord lengths with angles of arc. The golden ratio governs the fractional roots of every other chord, and the radial golden triangles which meet at the center.|400x400px]]
:<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math>
:<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math>
:<math>r_8=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math>
:<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math>
:<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{11}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{13}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{14}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math>
Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation.
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |15 chords (4 distinct 180° pairs) make 4 distinct section polyhedra
|-
! colspan="3" |Edge chords
! Section
! colspan="3" |Isocline chords
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_0</math>
|0°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2}
|180°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{15}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0}}
|{{radic|4}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0
|2
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|180°
|0°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_1</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14}=2{15/7}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{14}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|168°
|12°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_2</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{13}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|156°
|24°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_3</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V1 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{12}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|144°
|36°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_4</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{11}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|132°
|48°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_5</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V2 dodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Dodecahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{10}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|120°
|60°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{6}</math>
|72°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V3 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3}
|108°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{9}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|1.382~}}
|{{radic|2.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|1.176~
|1.618~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|108°
|72°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{7}</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V4 icosidodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosidodecahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{8}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|96°
|84°
|}
The list of 600-cell chords <math>r_{i}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 8 rows with a pair of 180° complements in each row. The short edge chord and long isocline chord each have their characteristic {30/n}-gon. Each row identifies a distinct isoclinic rotation of the 600-cell.
Each distinct pair of complementary chord lengths is identified with a distinct [[w:600-cell#Polyhedral sections|polyhedral section of the 600-cell]] beginning with a vertex. In spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]], every vertex is the center of a set of 7 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>\phi^{-1}</math> is a icosahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>\sqrt{2}</math> is an [[W:Icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]] central section bisecting the 600-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>\sqrt{2}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal icosahedron vertex figure at distance <math>\sqrt{2+\phi}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 7 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section).
[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>]]
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on 15 disjoint 16-cells. Each 90° displacement takes 15 pairs of completely orthogonal invariant great square planes to each other. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. The rotational curve over each 90° chord makes three 45° turns. Fifteen Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> form a circular fibration of 15 twisted parallel strands 5{24/9}=15{8/3} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great square planes, which has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. This ''great square rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' takes place over <math>r_7</math> edge chords and <math>r_8</math> isocline chords. The {30/7} edge polygon is a skew helix of circumference <math>14\pi</math> with each <math>r_7</math> edge belonging to a distinct great square. The four {30/7} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. Each 90° displacement takes every 16-cell to another 16-cell. The vertices of the invariant great squares each make seven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/7} edge makes seven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/7} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The {30/8}=2{15/4} Clifford polygon is a compound of two skew {15/4} pentadecagrams of circumference <math>16\pi</math> with each <math>r_8</math> isocline chord belonging to a distinct 16-cell. The four {30/8} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/8} isocline chord makes eight 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/8} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
{{Clear}}
[[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> ]]
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell, over <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords, with the same effect on 5 disjoint 24-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions of its 24-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. Ten Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> form a circular fibration of ten twisted parallel strands 5{24/10}=10{12/5} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great hexagon planes, over <math>r_{4}=\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>r_{11}=\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords This ''great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. Its {30/11} Clifford polygon is a skew helix where each <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord is the <math>\sqrt{3}</math> diagonal of a great hexagon of a distinct 24-cell. The vertices of the invariant great hexagons of this rotation each make eleven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord makes eleven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/11} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>22\pi</math> over <math>r_{11}</math> chords form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in 12 Clifford parallel invariant decagon central planes containing its 36° <math>r_{3}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{12}</math> isocline chords. This ''great pentagon rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' has period 5 and takes disjoint 24-cells to each other. The rotational curve over each <math>r_{12}</math> chord of its {5/2} Clifford polygon makes twelve 12° turns. 24 Clifford parallel {5/2} pentagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>4\pi</math> over five <math>r_{12}</math> chords form a circular fibration of 24 twisted parallel strands 4{30/12}=24{5/2} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The rotation of the 600-cell by 36° in any invariant decagon central plane takes every great decagon to a Clifford parallel great decagon in a twisting displacement, as all the central planes tilt sideways 36° while rotating 36° internally. It also takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon, and every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. The 24-cells revolve within the 600-cell, as the 16-cells revolve within the 24-cells. All 120 vertices move at once on four Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 144° in different directions.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great decagon planes containing its 36° <math>r_{2}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chords. This rotation has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. The rotational curve over each 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chord makes thirteen 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/13} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>26\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
{{Clear}}
== Finally the 120-cell ==
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |30 chords (15 180° pairs) make 15 distinct section polyhedra
|-
! colspan="3" |Edge chords
! Section
! colspan="3" |Isocline chords
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_0</math>
|0°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2}
|180°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{30}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0}}
|{{radic|4}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0
|2
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|180°
|0°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_1</math>
|15.5~°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14}
|164.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{29}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0.073~}}
|{{radic|3.927~}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0.270~
|1.982~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|168°
|12°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_2</math>
|25.2~°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13}
|154.8~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{28}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.191~}}
|{{radic|3.809~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.437~
|1.952~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|156°
|24°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_3</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{27}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|144°
|36°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_4</math>
|41.4~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|138.6~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{26}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.5}}
|{{radic|3.5}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.707~
|1.871~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|138°
|42°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_5</math>
|44.5~°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11}
|135.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{25}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0.573~}}
|{{radic|3.427~}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0.757~
|1.851~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|132°
|48°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_6</math>
|49.1~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|130.9~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{24}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.691~}}
|{{radic|3.309~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.831~
|1.819~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|128°
|52°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_7</math>
|56°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|124°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{23}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.882~}}
|{{radic|3.118~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.939~
|1.766~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|124°
|56°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_8</math>
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|1.732~
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|95.5~°
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|1.414~
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The [[120-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 600 vertices, 1200 edges, 720 pentagon faces, and 120 dodecahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the dodecahedron.
The [[User:Dc.samizdat/Golden chords of the 120-cell#Thirty distinguished distances|list of thirty 120-cell chords]] <math>c_{t}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 16 rows and 2 columns with a pair of 180° complements in each row. This table first appears in [[w:Regular_Polytopes_(book)|''Regular Polytopes'']] (1947),{{Sfn|Coxeter|1973|loc=Table V(v): Simplified sections of {5,3,3} beginning with a vertex|pp=300-301}} where Coxeter identified each row with a distinct [[w:120-cell#Concentric_hulls|polyhedral section of the 120-cell]] beginning with a vertex. He showed that in spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] every vertex is the center of a set of 29 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>c_1</math> is a tetrahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>c_{15}</math> is a central section bisecting the 120-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>c_{15}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal tetrahedron vertex figure at distance <math>c_{29}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 29 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section). Each section also lies completely orthogonal to a congruent section.
Only 8 of the 30 chords in the table occur in the 600-cell. The 120-cell's additional chords arise originally from the regular 5-cell 4-simplex, in its interaction with the other regular 4-polytopes that compound to make the 120-cell. Since all those polytopes except the 5-cell occur in the 600-cell, and the 600-cell and the 120-cell have the same symmetry group, the 5-cell's symmetry group is the entirety of what's new in the 120-cell.
The 120-cell is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 600-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew triacontagon {30}, but the 120-cell is a construct of 40 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>c_1</math>, two of which intersect in each tetrahedral vertex figure.
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== Conclusions ==
Fontaine and Hurley's discovery is more than a geometric formula for the reciprocal of a regular ''n''-polygon diagonal. It also yields the discrete sequence of isocline chords of the characteristic isoclinic rotation of a ''d''-dimensional polytope. The characteristic rotational chord sequence of the ''d''-polytope can be represented geometrically in two dimensions on a distinct star polygon, but it lies on a geodesic circle through ''d''-dimensional space. Fontaine and Hurley discovered the geodesic topology of polytopes generally. Their procedure will reveal the geodesics of arbitrary non-uniform polytopes, since it can be applied to a polytope of any dimensionality and irregularity, by first fitting the polytope to the smallest regular polygon whose chords include its chords. [If what is meant by this is its Petrie polygon, it is not quite necessary or possible with respect to the planar polygon chords, e.g. the planar Petrie polygon of the 600-cell does not contain the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chord. But perhaps it would work if the fit is to the smallest regular skew polygon in the ''d''-space.]
The discovery of a chordal construction for discrete isoclinic rotations generally closes the circuit on Kappraff and Adamson's discovery of a rotational connection between dynamical systems, Steinbach's golden fields, and Coxeter's Euclidean geometry of reflections in ''n'' dimensions. Application of the Fontaine and Hurley procedure to the 120-cell demonstrates why the connection exists: because polytope sequences generally, from Steinbach's golden chord sequences in polygons, to sequences of star polygons in isoclinic rotations, to subsumption relations in the sequence of regular 4-polytopes, arise as expressions of the reflections and rotations of distinct Coxeter symmetry groups, when those various groups interact.
== Appendix: Sequence of regular 4-polytopes ==
{{Regular convex 4-polytopes|wiki=W:|columns=7}}
== Notes ==
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== Citations ==
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== References ==
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* {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=1997 | title=Golden fields: A case for the Heptagon | journal=Mathematics Magazine | volume=70 | issue=Feb 1997 | pages=22–31 | doi=10.1080/0025570X.1997.11996494 | jstor=2691048 | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|1997}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=2000 | title=Sections Beyond Golden| journal=Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music and Science | issue=2000 | pages=35-44 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2000/bridges2000-35.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|2000}}}}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Jablan | first2=Slavik | last3=Adamson | first3=Gary | last4=Sazdanovich | first4=Radmila | year=2004 | title=Golden Fields, Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, and Chaotic Matrices | journal=Forma | volume=19 | pages=367-387 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2005/bridges2005-369.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff, Jablan, Adamson & Sazdanovich|2004}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Adamson | first2=Gary | year=2004 | title=Polygons and Chaos | journal=Dynamical Systems and Geometric Theories | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2001/bridges2001-67.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff & Adamson|2004}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Fontaine | first1=Anne | last2=Hurley | first2=Susan | year=2006 | title=Proof by Picture: Products and Reciprocals of Diagonal Length Ratios in the Regular Polygon | journal=Forum Geometricorum | volume=6 | pages=97-101 | url=https://scispace.com/pdf/proof-by-picture-products-and-reciprocals-of-diagonal-length-1aian8mgp9.pdf }}
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= Golden chords of the 120-cell =
{{align|center|David Brooks Christie}}
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<blockquote>Steinbach discovered the formula for the ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. Fontaine and Hurley extended this result, discovering a formula for the reciprocal of a regular polygon chord derived geometrically from the chord's star polygon. We observe that these findings in plane geometry apply more generally, to polytopes of any dimensionality. Fontaine and Hurley's geometric procedure for finding the reciprocals of the chords of a regular polygon from their star polygons also finds the rotational geodesics of any polytope of any dimensionality.</blockquote>
== Introduction ==
Steinbach discovered the Diagonal Product Formula and the Golden Fields family of ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. He showed how this family extends beyond the pentagon {5} with its well-known golden bisection proportional to 𝜙, finding that the heptagon {7} has an analogous trisection, the nonagon {9} has an analogous quadrasection, and the hendecagon {11} has an analogous pentasection, an extended family of golden proportions with quasiperiodic properties.
Kappraff and Adamson extended these findings in plane geometry to a theory of Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, showing that the Golden Fields not only do not end with the hendecagon, they form an infinite number of periodic trajectories when operated on by the Mandelbrot operator. They found a relation between the edges of star polygons and dynamical systems in the state of chaos, revealing a connection between chaos theory, number, and rotations in Coxeter Euclidean geometry.
Fontaine and Hurley examined Steinbach's finding that the length of each chord of a regular polygon is both the product of two chords and the sum of a set of smaller chords, so that in rotations to add is to multiply. They illustrated Steinbach's sets of additive chords lying parallel to each other in the plane (pointing in the same direction), and by applying Steinbach's formula more generally they found another summation relation of signed parallel chords (pointing in opposite directions) which relates each chord length to its reciprocal, and relates the summation to a distinct star polygon rotation.
We examine these remarkable findings (which stem from study of the chords of humble regular polygons) in higher-dimensional spaces, specifically in the chords, polygons and rotations of the [[120-cell]], the largest four-dimensional regular convex polytope.
== Visualizing the 120-cell ==
{| class="wikitable floatright" width="400"
|style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:120-cell.gif|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point 120-cell <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small> performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]].{{Sfn|Hise|2011|loc=File:120-cell.gif|ps=; "Created by Jason Hise with Maya and Macromedia Fireworks. A 3D projection of a 120-cell performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]]."}} In this simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges are shown; its 29 interior chords are not rendered. Therefore even though it is translucent, only its outer surface is visible. The complex interior parts of the 120-cell, all its inscribed 5-cells, 16-cells, 8-cells, 24-cells, 600-cells and its much larger inventory of polyhedra, are completely invisible in this view, as none of their edges are rendered at all.
|style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:Ortho solid 016-uniform polychoron p33-t0.png|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point [[W:Great grand stellated 120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] <small><math>\{\tfrac{5}{2},3,3\}</math></small>.{{Sfn|Ruen: Great grand stellated 120-cell|2007}} The 120-cell is its convex hull. The projection to the left renders only the 120-cell's shortest chord, its 1200 edges. The projection above also renders only one of the 120-cell's 30 chords, the edges of its 120 inscribed regular 5-cells. The 120-cell itself (the convex hull) is invisible in this view, as its edges are not rendered.
|}
[[120-cell#Geometry|The 120-cell is the maximally complex regular 4-polytope]], containing inscribed instances of every regular 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-polytope, except the regular polygons of more than {15} sides.
The 120-cell is the convex hull of a regular [[120-cell#Relationships among interior polytopes|compound of each of the 6 regular convex 4-polytopes]]. They are the [[5-cell|5-point (5-cell) 4-simplex]], the [[16-cell|8-point (16-cell) 4-orthoplex]], the [[W:Tesseract|16-point (8-cell) tesseract]], the [[24-cell|24-point (24-cell)]], the [[600-cell|120-point (600-cell)]], and the [[120-cell|600-point (120-cell)]]. The 120-cell is the convex hull of a compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells, of 75 disjoint 16-cells, of 25 disjoint 24-cells, and of 5 disjoint 600-cells.
The 120-cell contains an even larger inventory of irregular polytopes, created by the intersection of multiple instances of these component regular 4-polytopes. Many are quite unexpected, because they do not occur as components of any regular polytope smaller than the 120-cell. As just one example among the [[120-cell#Concentric hulls|sections of the 120-cell]], there is an irregular 24-point polyhedron with 16 triangle faces and 4 nonagon {9} faces.{{Sfn|Moxness|}}
Most renderings of the 120-cell, like the rotating projection here, only illustrate its outer surface, which is a honeycomb of face-bonded dodecahedral cells. Only the objects in its 3-dimensional surface are rendered, namely the 120 dodecahedra, their pentagon faces, and their edges. Although the 120-cell has chords of 30 distinct lengths, in this kind of simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges (its shortest chord) are shown. Its 29 interior chords, the edges of objects in the interior of the 120-cell, are not rendered, so interior objects are not visible at all.
Visualizing the complete interior of the 600-vertex 120-cell in a single image is impractical because of its complexity. Only four 120-cell edges are incident at each vertex, but [[120-cell#Chords|600 chords (of all 30 lengths)]] are incident at ''each'' vertex.
== Compounds in the 120-cell ==
The 8-point (16-cell), not the 5-point (5-cell) 4-simplex, is the smallest building block; it compounds to every larger regular 4-polytope. The 5-point (5-cell) does compound to the 600-point (120-cell), but it does not fit into any smaller regular 4-polytope.
The 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 2 in the 16-point (8-cell), and by 3 in the 24-point (24-cell). The 16-point (8-cell) compounds in the 24-point (24-cell) by 3 non-disjoint instances of itself, with each of the 24 vertices shared by two 16-point (8-cells). The 24-point (24-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell), and the 120-point (600-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell).
The 24-point (24-cell) also compounds by 5<sup>2</sup> non-disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell); it compounds in 5 disjoint instances of itself, 10 (not 5) different ways. Whichever set of 5 disjoint 24-point (24-cells) are assembled, the resulting 120-point (600-cell) contains 25 distinct 24-point (24-cells), not just 5 (or 10). Consequently 15 disjoint 8-point (16-cells) will construct a 120-point (600-cell), which contains 75 distinct 8-point (16-cells).
The 600-point (120-cell) is 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), just 2 different ways (not 5 or 10 ways), so it is 10 distinct 120-point (600-cells). Consequently the 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 3 times 5<sup>2</sup> (75) disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell), which contains 3<sup>2</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (225) distinct instances of the 24-point (24-cell), and 3<sup>3</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (675) distinct instances of the 8-point (16-cell).
These facts were discovered painstakingly by various researchers, and no one has found a general rule governing subsumption relations among regular polytopes. The reasons for some of their numeric incidence relations are far from obvious. [[W:Pieter Hendrik Schoute|Schoute]] was the first to see that the 120-point (600-cell) is a compound of 5 24-point (24-cells) ''10 different ways'', and after he saw it a hundred years lapsed until Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne proved his result, and showed why.{{Sfn|Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne|2020|loc=''The geometry of H4 polytopes''}}
So much for the compounds of 16-cells. The 120-cell is also the convex hull of the compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells. That stellated compound (without its convex hull of 120-cell edges) is the [[w:Great_grand_stellated_120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] illustrated above, the final regular [[W:Stellation|stellation]] of the 120-cell, and the only [[W:Schläfli-Hess polychoron|regular star 4-polytope]] to have the 120-cell for its convex hull. The edges of the great grand stellated 120-cell are <math>\phi^6</math> as long as those of its 120-cell [[W:List of polyhedral stellations#Stellation process|stellation core]] deep inside.
The compound of 120 disjoint 5-point (5-cells) can be seen to be equivalent to the compound of 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), as follows. Beginning with a single 120-point (600-cell), expand each vertex into a regular 5-cell, by adding 4 new equidistant vertices, such that the 5 vertices form a regular 5-cell inscribed in the 3-sphere. The 120 5-cells are disjoint, and the 600 vertices form 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells): a 120-cell.
== Thirty distinguished distances ==
The 30 numbers listed in the table are all-important in Euclidean geometry. A case can be made on symmetry grounds that their squares are the 30 most important numbers between 0 and 4. The 30 rows of the table are the 30 distinct [[120-cell#Geodesic rectangles|chord lengths of the unit-radius 120-cell]], the largest regular convex 4-polytope. Since the 120-cell subsumes all smaller regular polytopes, its 30 chords are the complete chord set of all the regular polytopes that can be constructed in the first four dimensions of Euclidean space, except for regular polygons of more than 15 sides.
{| class="wikitable" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
!rowspan=2|<math>c_t</math>
!rowspan=2|arc
!rowspan=2|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{n}\right\}</math></small>
!rowspan=2|<math>\left\{p\right\}</math>
!rowspan=2|<small><math>m\left\{\frac{k}{d}\right\}</math></small>
!rowspan=2|Steinbach roots
!colspan=7|Chord lengths of the unit 120-cell
|-
!colspan=5|unit-radius length <math>c_t</math>
!colspan=2|unit-edge length <math>c_t/c_1</math><br>in 120-cell of radius <math>c_8=\sqrt{2}\phi^2</math>
|-
|<small><math>c_{1,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>15.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>c_{4,1}-c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.270091</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi ^2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^4}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.072949}</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1.</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>25.2{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>2 \left\{15\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(c_{18,1}-c_{4,1}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{3-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.437016</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.190983}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi </math></small>
|<small><math>1.61803</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{3,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>36{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{10\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>3 \left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right) c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>0.618034</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.381966}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>2.28825</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>41.4{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.707107</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.61803</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{5,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>44.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{4}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>2 \left\{\frac{15}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.756934</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}}{\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.572949}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>2.80252</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{6,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>49.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{17}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.831254</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5}}{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.690983}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>3.07768</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{7,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>56.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.93913</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.881966}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>3.47709</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>60{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1.</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>3.70246</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{9,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>66.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{2 \phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.09132</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.19098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>4.04057</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{10,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>69.8{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2 \sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.14412</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\phi }{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^2}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>4.23607</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{11,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>72{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{6}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.17557</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.38197}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \sqrt{3-\phi } \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.3525</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{12,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>75.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{24}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.22474</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.53457</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{13,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>81.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.30038</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.69098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.8146</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{14,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>84.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{9}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi } c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{1+\sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.345</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi }}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5} \phi }{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>4.9798</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{15,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>90.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.41421</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>5.23607</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{16,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>95.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{29}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.4802</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.19098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>5.48037</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{17,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>98.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{31}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.51954</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(7+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>5.62605</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{18,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>104.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{8}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{4}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.58114</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{5} \sqrt{\phi ^4}</math></small>
|<small><math>5.8541</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{19,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>108.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{9}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>c_{3,1}+c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>1.61803</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi </math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1+\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.61803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>5.9907</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{20,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>110.2{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.64042</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.69098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\phi ^2}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.07359</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{21,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>113.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{19}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.67601</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\chi }{\phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.20537</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{22,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>120{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{10}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.73205</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{6} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>6.41285</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{23,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>124.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{41}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }+\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.7658</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.11803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.53779</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{24,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>130.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.81907</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\sqrt{5}}{\phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.73503</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{25,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>135.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.85123</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\phi ^2}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^4}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.42705}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^4</math></small>
|<small><math>6.8541</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{26,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>138.6{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{12}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.87083</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{7} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>6.92667</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{27,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>144{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{12}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{5}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.90211</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\phi +2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2+\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.61803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{2 \phi +4}</math></small>
|<small><math>7.0425</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{28,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>154.8{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.95167</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>7.22598</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{29,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>164.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{14}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi c_{12,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>1.98168</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3 \phi ^2}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.92705}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>7.33708</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{30,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>180{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{15}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.</math></small>
|<small><math>2</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4.}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 \sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>7.40492</math></small>
|-
|rowspan=4 colspan=6|
|rowspan=4 colspan=4|
<small><math>\phi</math></small> is the golden ratio:<br>
<small><math>\phi ^2-\phi -1=0</math></small><br>
<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }+1=\phi</math></small>, and: <small><math>\phi+1=\phi^2</math></small><br>
<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }::1::\phi ::\phi ^2</math></small><br>
<small><math>1/\phi</math></small> and <small><math>\phi</math></small> are the golden sections of <small><math>\sqrt{5}</math></small>:<br>
<small><math>\phi +\frac{1}{\phi }=\sqrt{5}</math></small>
|colspan=2|<small><math>\phi = (\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>1.618034</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\chi = (3\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>3.854102</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = (3\sqrt{5} - 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.854102</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = 11/\chi = 22/(3\sqrt{5} + 1)</math></small>
|<small><math>2.854102</math></small>
|}
== The 16-cell 4-orthoplex ==
In 2-space we have the regular 8-point octagon, in 3-space the regular 8-point cube, and in 4-space the regular 8-point [[16-cell]].
A planar octagon with rigid edges of unit length has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1,r_2=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_3=\sqrt{2}+1 \approx 2.414,r_4=\sqrt{4 + \sqrt{8}} \approx 2.613</math>
The chord ratio <math>r_3=\sqrt{2}+1</math> is a geometrical proportion, the [[W:Silver ratio|silver ratio]]. Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that:
:<math>r_3-r_1-r_1=1/r_3 \approx 0.414</math>
Note that <math>r_3-2=1/r_3=\sqrt{2}-1</math>. Their procedure rotates counterclockwise over three <math>r_3</math> chords of an {8/3} octagram. Over the first <math>r_3</math> chord the displacement is <math>\sqrt{2}+1</math>. Over the second <math>r_3</math> chord it moves in the opposite direction a distance of <math>-1</math> . Over the third <math>r_3</math> chord it also moves a distance of <math>-1</math>. Fontaine and Hurley also demonstrated the significance of <math>1/r_i</math> in Steinbach's Diagonal Product Formula, which says that every chord length is the sum of certain smaller chord lengths. The smaller chords are certain diagonals of the same regular polygon of a smaller edge length, specifically edge length <math>1/r_i</math> rather than <math>1</math>.
If we embed the planar octagon in 3-space, we can make it skew, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from three others instead of two others, at the vertices of a unit-edge cube with chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1, r_2=\sqrt{2}, r_3=\sqrt{3}, r_4=\sqrt{2}</math>
If we embed this cube in 4-space, we can skew it some more, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from six others instead of three others, at the vertices of a unit-edge 4-polytope with chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1,r_2=1,r_3=1,r_4=\sqrt{2}</math>
All of its chords except its long diameters are the same unit length as its edge. In fact they are its 24 edges, and it is a 16-cell of radius <math>1/\sqrt{2}</math>.
[[File:octagon16cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of a regular 16-cell to the [[16-cell#Projections|B<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only its edges are shown; its long diameter chords are not drawn. All 24 edges are the same length and none lie parallel to the projection plane. The octagon circumference is a Petrie polygon. The two disjoint squares lie in completely orthogonal central planes. The blue octagram is a Clifford polygon. ]]
The [[16-cell]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small>. It has 8 vertices, 24 edges, 32 equilateral triangle faces, and 16 regular tetrahedron cells. It is the [[16-cell#Octahedral dipyramid|four-dimensional analogue of the octahedron]], and each of its four orthogonal central hyperplanes is an octahedron.
The only planar regular polygons found in the 16-cell are face triangles and central plane squares, but the 16-cell also contains a skew regular octagon, its [[W:Petrie polygon|Petrie polygon]].{{Efn|name=Petrie polygon of a honeycomb}} The chords of this regular octagon, which lies skew in 4-space, are those given above for the 16-cell, as opposed to those for the cube or the regular octagon in the plane. The 16-cell is a construct of 3 Petrie octagons which share the same 8 vertices but have disjoint sets of 8 edges each.
The regular octad has higher symmetry in 4-space than it does in 2-space. The 16-cell is the 4-[[w:Cross-polytope|orthoplex]], the simplest regular 4-polytope after the [[5-cell|4-simplex]]. All the larger regular convex 4-polytopes are compounds of the 16-cell. The regular octagon exhibits this high symmetry only when embedded in 4-space at the vertices of the 16-cell.
The 16-cell constitutes an [[W:Orthonormal basis|orthonormal basis]] for the choice of a 4-dimensional Cartesian reference frame, because its vertices define four orthogonal axes. The eight vertices of a unit-radius 16-cell are (±1, 0, 0, 0), (0, ±1, 0, 0), (0, 0, ±1, 0), (0, 0, 0, ±1). All vertices are connected by <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges except opposite pairs.
The vertex coordinates of the 16-cell form 6 central squares lying in 6 pairwise [[W:Orthogonal|orthogonal]] coordinate planes. Great squares in opposite planes that do not share an axis (e.g. in the ''xy'' and ''wz'' planes) are completely disjoint (they do not intersect at any vertices). These planes are [[W:Completely orthogonal|completely orthogonal]].{{Efn|name=Six orthogonal planes of the Cartesian basis}}
Since the unit-radius coordinate system is convenient, let us derive the unit-radius 16-cell by skewing a unit-radius planar octagon, which has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{2-\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.765,r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_4=2</math>
We will need a planar octagon with rigid <math>r_2</math> chords, rather than one with rigid <math>r_1</math> edges. The octagon's <math>r_2</math> chords form two disjoint great squares, visible in the orthogonal projection, which we can reposition in 3-space to form a cube by making them parallel, and in 4-space to form a 16-cell by making them completely orthogonal.
Each chord is a distinct 4-vector with a length and a direction. Since the edges of the 16-cell are all the same length <math>r_1=\sqrt{2},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2}</math>, those chords are distinct only in the context of a rotation, where vertices circle over the chords of an <math>r_i</math> polygon. The rotational curve over each <math>r_i</math> chord makes <math>i</math> 45° turns. The angle between two <math>r_i</math> chords is <math>180^\circ - i \times 45^\circ</math>.
[[File:16-cell-orig.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 8-point 16-cell <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small> performing a double rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}}]]
[[W:Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space|Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space]] can be seen as the composition of two 2-dimensional rotations in completely orthogonal planes. The general rotation in 4-space is a [[W:SO(4)#Double rotations|double rotation]] in pairs of completely orthogonal planes. Two completely orthogonal planes are called invariant planes of the rotation when all points in the plane rotate on circles that remain in the plane, even as the whole plane tilts sideways (like a coin flipping) into another plane. The two completely orthogonal rotations of each plane (like a wheel, and like a coin flipping) are simultaneous but independent, in that they are not geometrically constrained to turn at the same rate. However, the most circular kind of rotation (as opposed to an elliptical double rotation of a rigid spherical object) occurs when the completely orthogonal planes do rotate through the same angle in the same time interval. Such equi-angled double rotations are called [[w:SO(4)#Isoclinic_rotations|isoclinic]], also [[w:William_Kingdon_Clifford|Clifford]] displacements.
The <math>r_1</math> chords of the 16-cell form a Petrie polygon {8/1} which zig-zags back and forth, in the left and right rotational directions, between two completely orthogonal great squares formed by <math>r_2</math> chords.
The <math>r_2</math> chords of the 16-cell form an ''edge polygon'' {8/2}=2{4}. The two completely orthogonal great squares lie parallel and perpendicular to each other. A ''simple'' rotation of the 16-cell in ''one'' of those two square central planes rotates that square like a wheel, while the other square does not move.{{Efn|name=simple rotations}} The four vertices of the rotating square orbit on a great circle in the plane.
The <math>r_3</math> chords of the 16-cell form a circular helix, visible as a blue {8/3} octagram in the orthogonal projection. A ''double'' rotation of the 16-cell, in both of two completely orthogonal invariant <math>r_2</math> square planes at once by equal angles, moves the eight vertices along the circular helix over <math>r_3</math> chords. The vertex motion is a [[w:Geodesic|geodesic]] circle orbit on the 3-sphere of a special kind: it does not lie in a central plane, its [[w:Winding_number|winding number]] is not 1 (it is 3 in this case), its circumference is not <math>2\pi</math> (it is <math>6\pi</math> in this case), and it moves in either a left or right handed circular spiral. We shall refer to such a chiral circle orbit as an ''isocline'', and to the skew polygram of its rotational chords as a ''Clifford polygon''.
The 16-cell is the simplest possible frame in which to [[16-cell#Rotations|observe 4-dimensional rotations]] because its characteristic rotations feature a single pair of invariant rotation planes. In the 16-cell an isoclinic rotation by 90° in any pair of invariant completely orthogonal square central planes takes every great square to its completely orthogonal great square in a twisting displacement, as the invariant planes tilt sideways 90° into each other's plane while rotating 90° internally. All the vertices move at once along the same circular helix geodesic isocline of <math>r_3</math> chords, displaced 90° in 8 orthogonal directions, and the rigid 16-cell assumes a new orientation in 4-space. When the 90° isoclinic rotation is continued in the same rotational direction through an additional 90°, each vertex is again displaced 90°, but from the new orientation in a direction orthogonal to its first 90° displacement. The rotational curve over each 90° <math>r_3</math> chord makes three 45° turns. In 360° of isoclinic rotation over four <math>r_3</math> chords, each vertex makes twelve 45° turns and reaches its antipodal position.
The trajectory of each vertex over each 90° isoclinic rotational displacement is a one-eighth segment of its geodesic orbit. Its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over eight <math>r_3</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane twice, over the four <math>r_2</math> edges of a great square in one of the two moving invariant rotation planes. In the course of a 720° isoclinic revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 16-cell returns to its original orientation.
We shall refer to this isoclinic rotation as the ''great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell'', and note once again that it is Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_3</math> {8/3} star polygon, which constructs <math>1/r_3</math>.
== The 8-cell tesseract ==
The long diameter of the unit-edge [[W:Hypercube|hypercube]] of dimension <math>n</math> is <math>\sqrt{n}</math>, so the unit-edge [[w:Tesseract|4-hypercube, the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract,]] has chords:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math>
Uniquely in its 4-dimensional case, the hypercube's edge length equals its radius, like the hexagon. We call such polytopes ''radially equilateral'', because they can be constructed from equilateral triangles which meet at their center, each contributing two radii and an edge. The [[w:Cuboctahedron|cuboctahedron]] and the 24-cell are also radially equilateral.
[[File:8-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation about a plane in 4-space.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The stationary plane bisects the figure from front-left to back-right and top to bottom.]]
The [[W:Tesseract|tesseract]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 16 vertices, 32 edges, 24 square faces, and 8 cube cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cube.
The 16-point tesseract is the convex hull of a compound of two 8-point 16-cells, in exact dimensional analogy to the way the 8-point cube is the convex hull of a [[W:Stellated octahedron|compound of two 4-point regular tetrahedrons]]. The [[W:Demihypercube|demihypercubes]] occupy alternate vertices of the hypercubes. The diagonals of the square faces of the unit-edge, unit-radius tesseract are the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges of two unit-radius 16-cells, also the edges of the square central planes.
We can rotate the tesseract isoclinically the way we rotated the 16-cell, by 90° in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on both alternate-position 16-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cell. The two skew {8/3} octagram Clifford polygons lie on two disjoint parallel isoclines of the same chirality, of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chords. They form a circular double helix which intersects each vertex of the tesseract once. The double helix is an 8-rung ladder twisted around 3 times, and bent into a circle in the fourth dimension with its ends joined. Each rung is a <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chord.
The tesseract is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 16-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew octagon, but the tesseract is a construct of 4 Petrie octagons with disjoint sets of 8 tesseract edges each. We can construct the tesseract by skewing two planar octagons. Because the tesseract is radially equilateral (unlike the 16-cell), we use two octagons of unit-edge length to build the unit-radius tesseract. To start we embed the planar octagons in 4-space at the same point and make them completely orthogonal. Then we skew each planar octagon into a cube, so we have a compound of two completely orthogonal cubes, provided we skewed them both in the same direction. The 16 vertices will be the vertices of a tesseract with half its 32 edges missing.
Because the tesseract contains two 16-cells in alternate positions it has two sets of 6 orthogonal square central planes. Two angles are required to specify the relationship between two planes in 4-space. Pairs of square central planes within each 16-cell are 90° apart in one angle, and either 0° or 90° apart in the other angle. They are 90° apart in both angles if and only if they are completely orthogonal planes, 90° apart by isoclinic rotation, with no vertices in common and their corresponding pairs of vertices 180° apart. Otherwise they are 0° apart in one of the angles, 90° apart by simple rotation, and they intersect in one axis and lie in a common 3-dimensional hyperplane.{{Efn|A double rotation in which one of the two angles of rotation is 0°, so that one of the completely orthogonal invariant planes does not rotate, is called a simple rotation. Ordinary rotations observed in a 3-dimensional space are simple rotations.|name=simple rotations}}
A pair of square central planes from alternate-position 16-cells are 60° apart by isoclinic rotation, with their corresponding pairs of vertices 120° apart. The planes are not orthogonal or parallel, so they intersect in a line somewhere, but they have no vertices in common, they have no 3-dimensional hyperplane in common, and they cannot reach each other by simple rotation. Such pairs of objects are called [[W:Clifford parallel|Clifford parallel]] because all their corresponding pairs of vertices are the same distance apart, although they are not parallel in the usual sense, because they have a common center. Not only the alternate-position 16-cells' corresponding square central planes, but also the 16-cells themselves, are Clifford parallel objects. More generally, multiple disjoint instances of a 4-polytope which compound to make a larger 4-polytope are Clifford parallel objects.
== The 24-cell ==
[[File:24-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the radially equilateral 24-cell, showing its 3 great circle polygons and its 4 chord lengths.]]
In 2-space we have the radially equilateral 6-point hexagon. In 3-space we have the radially equilateral 12-point cuboctahedron, with 4 hexagonal central planes. In 4-space we have the radially equilateral 24-point 24-cell, with 12 cuboctahedron central hyperplanes and 16 hexagonal central planes.
The [[24-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small>. It has 24 vertices, 96 edges, 96 equilateral triangle faces, and 24 octahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cuboctahedron.
The 24-cell has the same chord set as the 4-hypercube tesseract:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math>
[[Image:24-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 24-point 24-cell <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 24 octahedra is visible.]]
The 24-cell is [[W:Dual polytope|self-dual]], like the regular polygons and regular simplexes. It is the maximal regular construct of triangles and squares (with no pentagons). It is the convex hull of a compound of three disjoint 8-point 16-cells, rotated 60° isoclinically with respect to each other. Each of the three pairs of 16-cells is a tesseract. Each 24-cell edge is also a tesseract edge. The corresponding vertices of two 16-cells or two tesseracts are 120° apart by a <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chord. Each tesseract has 8 cube cells, and each cube has four <math>\sqrt{3}</math> long diameters. The <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords joining the corresponding vertices of two tesseracts belong to the third tesseract as cell long diameters.
The 24-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular dodecagon {12}. The unit-radius planar {12}-gon has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}-1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.518,r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}+1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.932,r_6=\sqrt{4}</math>
Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that:
:<math>r_5-r_3+r_1+r_1-r_3=1/r_5</math>
when <math>r_1=1</math>. In the system of unit-radius coordinates <math>r_1=1/r_5</math>. The procedure rotates counterclockwise over five <math>r_5</math> chords of a {12/5} dodecagram.
The <math>r_1</math> and <math>r_5</math> chords of the planar dodecagon do not occur in the 24-cell, which is a construct of eight skew dodecagons with disjoint sets of twelve <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges each. In the skew dodecagons the chord lengths are:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\sqrt{3},r_6=\sqrt{4}</math>
Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation.
The <math>r_1</math> <small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small> chords form 8 Petrie dodecagons which zig-zag back and forth, in the left and right rotational directions, between two Clifford parallel great hexagons formed by <math>r_2</math> chords. The 8 Petrie dodecagons can be divided four ways into 2 disjoint Petrie dodecagons {24/2}=2{12}.
The <math>r_2</math> <small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small> chords form 16 great hexagons, which can be divided four ways into 4 Clifford parallel great hexagons {24/4}=4{6}.
The <math>r_3</math> <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chords form 18 great squares, which can be divided three ways into 6 Clifford parallel great squares {24/6}=6{4}, including one pair of completely orthogonal great squares from each of the three 16-cells.
The <math>r_4</math> <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords form 32 great triangles, which can be divided four ways into 8 disjoint great triangles {24/8}=8{3} inscribed in 4 Clifford parallel great hexagons.
The <math>r_5</math> <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords form 8 circular helix Clifford polygons, visible as a green {12/5} dodecagram in the orthogonal projection. An isoclinic rotation of the 24-cell in 4 invariant <math>r_2</math> hexagon planes moves the vertices along 2 Clifford parallel circular isoclines {24/2}=2{12/5} over <math>r_5</math> chords.
[[File:dodecagon24cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of half a 24-cell to the [[24-cell#Geodesics|F<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only one Petrie dodecagon {12} of the 24-cell is shown. In a unit-radius 24-cell, all black lines are 24-cell edges of unit length, also tesseract edges. The two disjoint hexagons lie in Clifford parallel central planes. Blue chords are <math>\sqrt{2}</math> 16-cell edges of Clifford parallel great squares, also isocline chords in great square rotations. Green chords are <math>\sqrt{3}</math> distances between corresponding vertices of two 16-cells, also isocline chords in great hexagon rotations. The green {12/5} dodecagram is a Clifford polygon.]]
[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} shows three octagram isoclines of <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math> </small>chords in the 24-cell]]
We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 6 Clifford parallel invariant great square planes containing 16-cell edges, in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on all three 16-cells. In 720° each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cells. The rotational curve over each 90° <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chord makes three 45° turns. Three Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chords form a circular triple helix {24/9}=3{8/3} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. The triple helix is an 8-step circular staircase that twists around 3 times, and is bent into a torus in the fourth dimension. Each staircase step is a great triangle of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords.
[[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} shows 2 dodecagram isoclines of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords in the 24-cell]]We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 4 Clifford parallel invariant great hexagon planes containing 24-cell edges, over <math>r_{5}</math> isocline chords. This is the ''great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell'', also Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_5</math> {12/5} star polygon which constructs <math>1/r_5</math>. A complete 24-cell great circle edge plane revolution requires 720° like a complete 16-cell great circle edge plane revolution, but it is completed in 12 isoclinic displacements of 60° each rather than 8 isoclinic displacements of 90° each. An isoclinic rotation by 60° in an invariant central plane containing a 24-cell edge takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon in a twisting displacement, as 4 invariant great hexagon planes tilt sideways 60° while rotating 60° internally. It also takes every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. All 24 vertices move at once on Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 120° in different directions. The trajectory of each vertex over each 60° rotational displacement is a one-twelfth segment of its geodesic orbit. Its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space over 12 <math>r_5</math> <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane 5 times in a moving invariant rotation plane. The rotational curve over each <math>r_5</math> 120° chord makes five 30° turns. Two Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> form a circular double helix {24/10}=2{12/5} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 24-cell returns to its original orientation.
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |6 distinct 180° chord pairs make 6 distinct isoclinic rotations
|-
! colspan="3" |Short chords
!Invariant planes
! colspan="3" |Long chords
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_1</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_24.svg|100px]]<br>{24/1}={24}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-11.svg|100px]]<br>{24/11}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{11}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|165°
|15°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_2</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/2}=2{12}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_4(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/4}=4{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,5).svg|100px]]<br>{24/10}=2{12/5}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{10}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|150°
|30°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_3</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/3}=3{8}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|100px]]<br>{24/9}=3{8/3}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{9}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|135°
|45°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_4</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_4(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/4}=4{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_12(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/12}=12{2}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_8(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/8}=8{3}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{8}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|120°
|60°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_5</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-5.svg|100px]]<br>{24/5}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-7.svg|100px]]<br>{24/7}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{7}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|105°
|75°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_6</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{6}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|90°
|90°
|}
By examining the chords <math>r_i</math> of the 24-cell's Petrie {12}-gon we have found two distinct isoclinic rotations, the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell and the great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell. If we examine the chords <math>t_i</math> of the 24-cell's {24}-gon we find these, and also four other distinct isoclinic rotations.
Each row of the table describes a distinct isoclinic rotation of the 24-cell characterized by a pair of chords whose arc-lengths sum to 180°. Each chord lies in a central plane which is either a great square or a great hexagon. Each short chord plane is completely orthogonal to a corresponding long chord plane. These central planes are not to be confused with the invariant planes of the rotation, which intersect 0, 2, 4, or 6 vertices as illustrated in each row.
The short chord and long chord each have their characteristic {24/''n''}-gon, which correspond as projections of the 24-cell to completely orthogonal planes. Their projection viewpoints look straight down orthogonal cylinders which are actually [[w:SO(4)#Visualization_of_4D_rotations|bent into tori in 4-space]]. Each {24/''n''}-gon forms ''n'' disjoint Clifford parallel regular polygons. Polygons with {2}, {3}, {4} or {6} sides lie in a central plane, and all others lie skew in 4-space. The rotational angle between successive short chords in 4-space and the rotational angle between successive long chords in 4-space sum to 180°. Those angles distinguish distinct chords <math>t_i</math> which are the same length.
Each isoclinic rotation takes two chiral forms. There is a ''right rotation'' and a ''left rotation'' for each row of the table. The right and left rotations are enantiomorphous reflections of each other like a pair of clasped hands, with non-congruent vertex position sequences. The right rotation takes Clifford parallel short chord polygons to each other, while the long chord polygons remain stationary in 4-space as vertices circle over them. In the left rotation the roles of the short chord polygon and the long chord polygon are reversed: the short chord polygons are stationary in 4-space as vertices circle over them, and the rotation takes Clifford parallel long chord polygons to each other.
{{Clear}}
== The 600-cell ==
[[Image:600-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 120-point 600-cell <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2011}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 600 tetrahedra is visible. Invisible in this rendering are 25 inscribed instances of the 24-cell (above), which occur in the 600-cell as interior boundary envelopes.]]
The [[600-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small>. It has 120 vertices, 720 edges, 1200 equilateral triangle faces, and 600 tetrahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the icosahedron.
The 600-cell rounds out the 24-cell by adding 96 more vertices (four more disjoint 24-cells) between the 24-cell's existing 24 vertices, in effect adding twenty-four more distinct 24-cells inscribed in the 600-cell. The new surface thus formed is a honeycomb of smaller, more numerous cells: tetrahedra of edge length <math>\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> instead of octahedra of edge length <math>\sqrt{1}</math>. It encloses the <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges of the 24-cells, which become invisible interior chords in the 600-cell, like the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords.
Since the tetrahedra are made of shorter triangle edges than the octahedra (by a factor of <math>\phi^{-1}</math> the inverse golden ratio), the 600-cell is not radially equilateral like the 24-cell and the tesseract. Like them it is radially triangular in a special way, but one in which [[w:Golden_triangle_(mathematics)|golden triangles]] rather than equilateral triangles meet at the center.
In 2-space we have the ''radially golden'' [[W:Decagon#The golden ratio in decagon|regular decagon]]. In 3-space we have the radially golden 30-point [[W:icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]], with 6 decagon central planes. In 4-space we have the radially golden 120-point 600-cell, with 60 icosidodecahedron central hyperplanes and 72 decagon central planes.
The 600-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular [[w:Triacontagon|triacontagon {30}]]. The unit-radius planar {30}-gon has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.209</math>
:<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.416</math>
:<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.813</math>
:<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math>
:<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.338</math>
:<math>r_8=2 \cos (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.486</math>
:<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math>
:<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{11}=2 \cos (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.827</math>
:<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{13}=2 \cos (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.956</math>
:<math>r_{14}=2 \cos (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.989</math>
:<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math>
Only the chord lengths <math>r_3</math>, <math>r_5</math>, <math>r_6</math>, <math>\sqrt{2}</math>, <math>r_9</math>, <math>r_{10}</math>, <math>r_{12}</math>, <math>r_{15}</math> occur in the 600-cell, which is a construct of 24 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>r_3</math>, six of which intersect in each icosahedral vertex figure. In the skew {30}-gons the chord lengths are:
[[File:600-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the 600-cell, showing its 5 regular great circle polygons and its 8 chord lengths with angles of arc. The golden ratio governs the fractional roots of every other chord, and the radial golden triangles which meet at the center.|400x400px]]
:<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math>
:<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math>
:<math>r_8=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math>
:<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math>
:<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{11}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{13}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{14}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math>
Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation.
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |15 chords (4 distinct 180° pairs) make 4 distinct section polyhedra
|-
! colspan="3" |Edge chords
! Section
! colspan="3" |Isocline chords
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_0</math>
|0°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2}
|180°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{15}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0}}
|{{radic|4}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0
|2
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|180°
|0°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_1</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14}=2{15/7}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{14}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|168°
|12°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_2</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{13}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|156°
|24°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_3</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V1 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{12}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|144°
|36°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_4</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{11}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|132°
|48°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_5</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V2 dodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Dodecahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{10}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|120°
|60°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{6}</math>
|72°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V3 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3}
|108°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{9}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|1.382~}}
|{{radic|2.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|1.176~
|1.618~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|108°
|72°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{7}</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V4 icosidodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosidodecahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{8}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|96°
|84°
|}
The list of 600-cell chords <math>r_{i}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 8 rows with a pair of 180° complements in each row. The short edge chord and long isocline chord each have their characteristic {30/n}-gon. Each row identifies a distinct isoclinic rotation of the 600-cell.
Each distinct pair of complementary chord lengths is identified with a distinct [[w:600-cell#Polyhedral sections|polyhedral section of the 600-cell]] beginning with a vertex. In spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]], every vertex is the center of a set of 7 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>\phi^{-1}</math> is a icosahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>\sqrt{2}</math> is an [[W:Icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]] central section bisecting the 600-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>\sqrt{2}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal icosahedron vertex figure at distance <math>\sqrt{2+\phi}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 7 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section).
[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>]]
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on 15 disjoint 16-cells. Each 90° displacement takes 15 pairs of completely orthogonal invariant great square planes to each other. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. The rotational curve over each 90° chord makes three 45° turns. Fifteen Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> form a circular fibration of 15 twisted parallel strands 5{24/9}=15{8/3} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great square planes, which has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. This ''great square rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' takes place over <math>r_7</math> edge chords and <math>r_8</math> isocline chords. The {30/7} edge polygon is a skew helix of circumference <math>14\pi</math> with each <math>r_7</math> edge belonging to a distinct great square. The four {30/7} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. Each 90° displacement takes every 16-cell to another 16-cell. The vertices of the invariant great squares each make seven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/7} edge makes seven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/7} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The {30/8}=2{15/4} Clifford polygon is a compound of two skew {15/4} pentadecagrams of circumference <math>16\pi</math> with each <math>r_8</math> isocline chord belonging to a distinct 16-cell. The four {30/8} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/8} isocline chord makes eight 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/8} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
{{Clear}}
[[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> ]]
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell, over <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords, with the same effect on 5 disjoint 24-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions of its 24-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. Ten Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> form a circular fibration of ten twisted parallel strands 5{24/10}=10{12/5} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great hexagon planes, over <math>r_{4}=\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>r_{11}=\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords This ''great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. Its {30/11} Clifford polygon is a skew helix where each <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord is the <math>\sqrt{3}</math> diagonal of a great hexagon of a distinct 24-cell. The vertices of the invariant great hexagons of this rotation each make eleven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord makes eleven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/11} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>22\pi</math> over <math>r_{11}</math> chords form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in 12 Clifford parallel invariant decagon central planes containing its 36° <math>r_{3}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{12}</math> isocline chords. This ''great pentagon rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' has period 5 and takes disjoint 24-cells to each other. The rotational curve over each <math>r_{12}</math> chord of its {5/2} Clifford polygon makes twelve 12° turns. 24 Clifford parallel {5/2} pentagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>4\pi</math> over five <math>r_{12}</math> chords form a circular fibration of 24 twisted parallel strands 4{30/12}=24{5/2} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The rotation of the 600-cell by 36° in any invariant decagon central plane takes every great decagon to a Clifford parallel great decagon in a twisting displacement, as all the central planes tilt sideways 36° while rotating 36° internally. It also takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon, and every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. The 24-cells revolve within the 600-cell, as the 16-cells revolve within the 24-cells. All 120 vertices move at once on four Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 144° in different directions.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great decagon planes containing its 36° <math>r_{2}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chords. This rotation has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. The rotational curve over each 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chord makes thirteen 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/13} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>26\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
{{Clear}}
== Finally the 120-cell ==
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |30 chords (15 180° pairs) make 15 distinct section polyhedra
|-
! colspan="3" |Edge chords
! Section
! colspan="3" |Isocline chords
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_0</math>
|0°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2}
|180°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{30}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0}}
|{{radic|4}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0
|2
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|180°
|0°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_1</math>
|15.5~°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14}
|164.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{29}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0.073~}}
|{{radic|3.927~}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0.270~
|1.982~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|168°
|12°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_2</math>
|25.2~°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13}
|154.8~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{28}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.191~}}
|{{radic|3.809~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.437~
|1.952~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|156°
|24°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_3</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{27}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|144°
|36°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_4</math>
|41.4~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|138.6~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{26}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.5}}
|{{radic|3.5}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.707~
|1.871~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|138°
|42°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_5</math>
|44.5~°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11}
|135.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{25}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0.573~}}
|{{radic|3.427~}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0.757~
|1.851~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|132°
|48°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_6</math>
|49.1~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|130.9~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{24}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.691~}}
|{{radic|3.309~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.831~
|1.819~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|128°
|52°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_7</math>
|56°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|124°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{23}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.882~}}
|{{radic|3.118~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.939~
|1.766~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|124°
|56°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_8</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{22}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|120°
|60°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_9</math>
|66.1~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|113.9~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{21}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1.191~}}
|{{radic|2.809~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1.091~
|1.676~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|116°
|64°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{10}</math>
|69.8~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|110.2~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{20}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1.309~}}
|{{radic|2.691~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1.144~
|1.640~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|112°
|68°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{11}</math>
|72°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3}
|108°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{19}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|1.382~}}
|{{radic|2.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|1.176~
|1.618~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|108°
|72°
|- style="background: palegreen; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{12}</math>
|75.5~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4}
|104.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{18}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1.5}}
|{{radic|2.5}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1.224~
|1.581~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|96°
|84°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{13}</math>
|81.1~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|98.9~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{17}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1.691~}}
|{{radic|2.309~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1.300~
|1.520~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|°
|°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{14}</math>
|84.5~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|95.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{16}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.809~}}
|{{radic|2.191~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1.345~
|1.480~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|°
|°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{15}</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{15}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|90°
|90°
|}
The [[120-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 600 vertices, 1200 edges, 720 pentagon faces, and 120 dodecahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the dodecahedron.
The [[User:Dc.samizdat/Golden chords of the 120-cell#Thirty distinguished distances|list of thirty 120-cell chords]] <math>c_{t}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 16 rows and 2 columns with a pair of 180° complements in each row. This table first appears in [[w:Regular_Polytopes_(book)|''Regular Polytopes'']] (1947),{{Sfn|Coxeter|1973|loc=Table V(v): Simplified sections of {5,3,3} beginning with a vertex|pp=300-301}} where Coxeter identified each row with a distinct [[w:120-cell#Concentric_hulls|polyhedral section of the 120-cell]] beginning with a vertex. He showed that in spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] every vertex is the center of a set of 29 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>c_1</math> is a tetrahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>c_{15}</math> is a central section bisecting the 120-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>c_{15}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal tetrahedron vertex figure at distance <math>c_{29}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 29 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section). Each section also lies completely orthogonal to a congruent section.
Only 8 of the 30 chords in the table occur in the 600-cell. The 120-cell's additional chords arise originally from the regular 5-cell 4-simplex, in its interaction with the other regular 4-polytopes that compound to make the 120-cell. Since all those polytopes except the 5-cell occur in the 600-cell, and the 600-cell and the 120-cell have the same symmetry group, the 5-cell's symmetry group is the entirety of what's new in the 120-cell.
The 120-cell is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 600-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew triacontagon {30}, but the 120-cell is a construct of 40 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>c_1</math>, two of which intersect in each tetrahedral vertex figure.
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== Conclusions ==
Fontaine and Hurley's discovery is more than a geometric formula for the reciprocal of a regular ''n''-polygon diagonal. It also yields the discrete sequence of isocline chords of the characteristic isoclinic rotation of a ''d''-dimensional polytope. The characteristic rotational chord sequence of the ''d''-polytope can be represented geometrically in two dimensions on a distinct star polygon, but it lies on a geodesic circle through ''d''-dimensional space. Fontaine and Hurley discovered the geodesic topology of polytopes generally. Their procedure will reveal the geodesics of arbitrary non-uniform polytopes, since it can be applied to a polytope of any dimensionality and irregularity, by first fitting the polytope to the smallest regular polygon whose chords include its chords. [If what is meant by this is its Petrie polygon, it is not quite necessary or possible with respect to the planar polygon chords, e.g. the planar Petrie polygon of the 600-cell does not contain the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chord. But perhaps it would work if the fit is to the smallest regular skew polygon in the ''d''-space.]
The discovery of a chordal construction for discrete isoclinic rotations generally closes the circuit on Kappraff and Adamson's discovery of a rotational connection between dynamical systems, Steinbach's golden fields, and Coxeter's Euclidean geometry of reflections in ''n'' dimensions. Application of the Fontaine and Hurley procedure to the 120-cell demonstrates why the connection exists: because polytope sequences generally, from Steinbach's golden chord sequences in polygons, to sequences of star polygons in isoclinic rotations, to subsumption relations in the sequence of regular 4-polytopes, arise as expressions of the reflections and rotations of distinct Coxeter symmetry groups, when those various groups interact.
== Appendix: Sequence of regular 4-polytopes ==
{{Regular convex 4-polytopes|wiki=W:|columns=7}}
== Notes ==
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== Citations ==
{{Reflist}}
== References ==
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* {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=1997 | title=Golden fields: A case for the Heptagon | journal=Mathematics Magazine | volume=70 | issue=Feb 1997 | pages=22–31 | doi=10.1080/0025570X.1997.11996494 | jstor=2691048 | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|1997}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=2000 | title=Sections Beyond Golden| journal=Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music and Science | issue=2000 | pages=35-44 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2000/bridges2000-35.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|2000}}}}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Jablan | first2=Slavik | last3=Adamson | first3=Gary | last4=Sazdanovich | first4=Radmila | year=2004 | title=Golden Fields, Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, and Chaotic Matrices | journal=Forma | volume=19 | pages=367-387 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2005/bridges2005-369.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff, Jablan, Adamson & Sazdanovich|2004}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Adamson | first2=Gary | year=2004 | title=Polygons and Chaos | journal=Dynamical Systems and Geometric Theories | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2001/bridges2001-67.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff & Adamson|2004}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Fontaine | first1=Anne | last2=Hurley | first2=Susan | year=2006 | title=Proof by Picture: Products and Reciprocals of Diagonal Length Ratios in the Regular Polygon | journal=Forum Geometricorum | volume=6 | pages=97-101 | url=https://scispace.com/pdf/proof-by-picture-products-and-reciprocals-of-diagonal-length-1aian8mgp9.pdf }}
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= Golden chords of the 120-cell =
{{align|center|David Brooks Christie}}
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<blockquote>Steinbach discovered the formula for the ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. Fontaine and Hurley extended this result, discovering a formula for the reciprocal of a regular polygon chord derived geometrically from the chord's star polygon. We observe that these findings in plane geometry apply more generally, to polytopes of any dimensionality. Fontaine and Hurley's geometric procedure for finding the reciprocals of the chords of a regular polygon from their star polygons also finds the rotational geodesics of any polytope of any dimensionality.</blockquote>
== Introduction ==
Steinbach discovered the Diagonal Product Formula and the Golden Fields family of ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. He showed how this family extends beyond the pentagon {5} with its well-known golden bisection proportional to 𝜙, finding that the heptagon {7} has an analogous trisection, the nonagon {9} has an analogous quadrasection, and the hendecagon {11} has an analogous pentasection, an extended family of golden proportions with quasiperiodic properties.
Kappraff and Adamson extended these findings in plane geometry to a theory of Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, showing that the Golden Fields not only do not end with the hendecagon, they form an infinite number of periodic trajectories when operated on by the Mandelbrot operator. They found a relation between the edges of star polygons and dynamical systems in the state of chaos, revealing a connection between chaos theory, number, and rotations in Coxeter Euclidean geometry.
Fontaine and Hurley examined Steinbach's finding that the length of each chord of a regular polygon is both the product of two chords and the sum of a set of smaller chords, so that in rotations to add is to multiply. They illustrated Steinbach's sets of additive chords lying parallel to each other in the plane (pointing in the same direction), and by applying Steinbach's formula more generally they found another summation relation of signed parallel chords (pointing in opposite directions) which relates each chord length to its reciprocal, and relates the summation to a distinct star polygon rotation.
We examine these remarkable findings (which stem from study of the chords of humble regular polygons) in higher-dimensional spaces, specifically in the chords, polygons and rotations of the [[120-cell]], the largest four-dimensional regular convex polytope.
== Visualizing the 120-cell ==
{| class="wikitable floatright" width="400"
|style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:120-cell.gif|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point 120-cell <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small> performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]].{{Sfn|Hise|2011|loc=File:120-cell.gif|ps=; "Created by Jason Hise with Maya and Macromedia Fireworks. A 3D projection of a 120-cell performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]]."}} In this simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges are shown; its 29 interior chords are not rendered. Therefore even though it is translucent, only its outer surface is visible. The complex interior parts of the 120-cell, all its inscribed 5-cells, 16-cells, 8-cells, 24-cells, 600-cells and its much larger inventory of polyhedra, are completely invisible in this view, as none of their edges are rendered at all.
|style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:Ortho solid 016-uniform polychoron p33-t0.png|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point [[W:Great grand stellated 120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] <small><math>\{\tfrac{5}{2},3,3\}</math></small>.{{Sfn|Ruen: Great grand stellated 120-cell|2007}} The 120-cell is its convex hull. The projection to the left renders only the 120-cell's shortest chord, its 1200 edges. The projection above also renders only one of the 120-cell's 30 chords, the edges of its 120 inscribed regular 5-cells. The 120-cell itself (the convex hull) is invisible in this view, as its edges are not rendered.
|}
[[120-cell#Geometry|The 120-cell is the maximally complex regular 4-polytope]], containing inscribed instances of every regular 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-polytope, except the regular polygons of more than {15} sides.
The 120-cell is the convex hull of a regular [[120-cell#Relationships among interior polytopes|compound of each of the 6 regular convex 4-polytopes]]. They are the [[5-cell|5-point (5-cell) 4-simplex]], the [[16-cell|8-point (16-cell) 4-orthoplex]], the [[W:Tesseract|16-point (8-cell) tesseract]], the [[24-cell|24-point (24-cell)]], the [[600-cell|120-point (600-cell)]], and the [[120-cell|600-point (120-cell)]]. The 120-cell is the convex hull of a compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells, of 75 disjoint 16-cells, of 25 disjoint 24-cells, and of 5 disjoint 600-cells.
The 120-cell contains an even larger inventory of irregular polytopes, created by the intersection of multiple instances of these component regular 4-polytopes. Many are quite unexpected, because they do not occur as components of any regular polytope smaller than the 120-cell. As just one example among the [[120-cell#Concentric hulls|sections of the 120-cell]], there is an irregular 24-point polyhedron with 16 triangle faces and 4 nonagon {9} faces.{{Sfn|Moxness|}}
Most renderings of the 120-cell, like the rotating projection here, only illustrate its outer surface, which is a honeycomb of face-bonded dodecahedral cells. Only the objects in its 3-dimensional surface are rendered, namely the 120 dodecahedra, their pentagon faces, and their edges. Although the 120-cell has chords of 30 distinct lengths, in this kind of simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges (its shortest chord) are shown. Its 29 interior chords, the edges of objects in the interior of the 120-cell, are not rendered, so interior objects are not visible at all.
Visualizing the complete interior of the 600-vertex 120-cell in a single image is impractical because of its complexity. Only four 120-cell edges are incident at each vertex, but [[120-cell#Chords|600 chords (of all 30 lengths)]] are incident at ''each'' vertex.
== Compounds in the 120-cell ==
The 8-point (16-cell), not the 5-point (5-cell) 4-simplex, is the smallest building block; it compounds to every larger regular 4-polytope. The 5-point (5-cell) does compound to the 600-point (120-cell), but it does not fit into any smaller regular 4-polytope.
The 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 2 in the 16-point (8-cell), and by 3 in the 24-point (24-cell). The 16-point (8-cell) compounds in the 24-point (24-cell) by 3 non-disjoint instances of itself, with each of the 24 vertices shared by two 16-point (8-cells). The 24-point (24-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell), and the 120-point (600-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell).
The 24-point (24-cell) also compounds by 5<sup>2</sup> non-disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell); it compounds in 5 disjoint instances of itself, 10 (not 5) different ways. Whichever set of 5 disjoint 24-point (24-cells) are assembled, the resulting 120-point (600-cell) contains 25 distinct 24-point (24-cells), not just 5 (or 10). Consequently 15 disjoint 8-point (16-cells) will construct a 120-point (600-cell), which contains 75 distinct 8-point (16-cells).
The 600-point (120-cell) is 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), just 2 different ways (not 5 or 10 ways), so it is 10 distinct 120-point (600-cells). Consequently the 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 3 times 5<sup>2</sup> (75) disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell), which contains 3<sup>2</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (225) distinct instances of the 24-point (24-cell), and 3<sup>3</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (675) distinct instances of the 8-point (16-cell).
These facts were discovered painstakingly by various researchers, and no one has found a general rule governing subsumption relations among regular polytopes. The reasons for some of their numeric incidence relations are far from obvious. [[W:Pieter Hendrik Schoute|Schoute]] was the first to see that the 120-point (600-cell) is a compound of 5 24-point (24-cells) ''10 different ways'', and after he saw it a hundred years lapsed until Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne proved his result, and showed why.{{Sfn|Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne|2020|loc=''The geometry of H4 polytopes''}}
So much for the compounds of 16-cells. The 120-cell is also the convex hull of the compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells. That stellated compound (without its convex hull of 120-cell edges) is the [[w:Great_grand_stellated_120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] illustrated above, the final regular [[W:Stellation|stellation]] of the 120-cell, and the only [[W:Schläfli-Hess polychoron|regular star 4-polytope]] to have the 120-cell for its convex hull. The edges of the great grand stellated 120-cell are <math>\phi^6</math> as long as those of its 120-cell [[W:List of polyhedral stellations#Stellation process|stellation core]] deep inside.
The compound of 120 disjoint 5-point (5-cells) can be seen to be equivalent to the compound of 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), as follows. Beginning with a single 120-point (600-cell), expand each vertex into a regular 5-cell, by adding 4 new equidistant vertices, such that the 5 vertices form a regular 5-cell inscribed in the 3-sphere. The 120 5-cells are disjoint, and the 600 vertices form 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells): a 120-cell.
== Thirty distinguished distances ==
The 30 numbers listed in the table are all-important in Euclidean geometry. A case can be made on symmetry grounds that their squares are the 30 most important numbers between 0 and 4. The 30 rows of the table are the 30 distinct [[120-cell#Geodesic rectangles|chord lengths of the unit-radius 120-cell]], the largest regular convex 4-polytope. Since the 120-cell subsumes all smaller regular polytopes, its 30 chords are the complete chord set of all the regular polytopes that can be constructed in the first four dimensions of Euclidean space, except for regular polygons of more than 15 sides.
{| class="wikitable" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
!rowspan=2|<math>c_t</math>
!rowspan=2|arc
!rowspan=2|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{n}\right\}</math></small>
!rowspan=2|<math>\left\{p\right\}</math>
!rowspan=2|<small><math>m\left\{\frac{k}{d}\right\}</math></small>
!rowspan=2|Steinbach roots
!colspan=7|Chord lengths of the unit 120-cell
|-
!colspan=5|unit-radius length <math>c_t</math>
!colspan=2|unit-edge length <math>c_t/c_1</math><br>in 120-cell of radius <math>c_8=\sqrt{2}\phi^2</math>
|-
|<small><math>c_{1,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>15.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>c_{4,1}-c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.270091</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi ^2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^4}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.072949}</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1.</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>25.2{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>2 \left\{15\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(c_{18,1}-c_{4,1}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{3-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.437016</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.190983}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi </math></small>
|<small><math>1.61803</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{3,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>36{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{10\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>3 \left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right) c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>0.618034</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.381966}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>2.28825</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>41.4{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.707107</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.61803</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{5,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>44.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{4}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>2 \left\{\frac{15}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.756934</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}}{\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.572949}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>2.80252</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{6,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>49.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{17}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.831254</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5}}{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.690983}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>3.07768</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{7,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>56.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.93913</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.881966}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>3.47709</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>60{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1.</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>3.70246</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{9,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>66.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{2 \phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.09132</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.19098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>4.04057</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{10,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>69.8{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2 \sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.14412</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\phi }{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^2}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>4.23607</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{11,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>72{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{6}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.17557</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.38197}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \sqrt{3-\phi } \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.3525</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{12,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>75.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{24}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.22474</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.53457</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{13,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>81.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.30038</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.69098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.8146</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{14,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>84.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{9}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi } c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{1+\sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.345</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi }}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5} \phi }{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>4.9798</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{15,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>90.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.41421</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>5.23607</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{16,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>95.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{29}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.4802</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.19098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>5.48037</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{17,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>98.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{31}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.51954</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(7+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>5.62605</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{18,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>104.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{8}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{4}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.58114</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{5} \sqrt{\phi ^4}</math></small>
|<small><math>5.8541</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{19,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>108.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{9}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>c_{3,1}+c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>1.61803</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi </math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1+\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.61803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>5.9907</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{20,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>110.2{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.64042</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.69098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\phi ^2}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.07359</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{21,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>113.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{19}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.67601</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\chi }{\phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.20537</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{22,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>120{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{10}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.73205</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{6} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>6.41285</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{23,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>124.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{41}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }+\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.7658</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.11803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.53779</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{24,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>130.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.81907</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\sqrt{5}}{\phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.73503</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{25,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>135.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.85123</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\phi ^2}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^4}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.42705}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^4</math></small>
|<small><math>6.8541</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{26,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>138.6{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{12}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.87083</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{7} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>6.92667</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{27,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>144{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{12}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{5}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.90211</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\phi +2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2+\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.61803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{2 \phi +4}</math></small>
|<small><math>7.0425</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{28,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>154.8{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.95167</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>7.22598</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{29,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>164.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{14}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi c_{12,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>1.98168</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3 \phi ^2}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.92705}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>7.33708</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{30,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>180{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{15}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.</math></small>
|<small><math>2</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4.}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 \sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>7.40492</math></small>
|-
|rowspan=4 colspan=6|
|rowspan=4 colspan=4|
<small><math>\phi</math></small> is the golden ratio:<br>
<small><math>\phi ^2-\phi -1=0</math></small><br>
<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }+1=\phi</math></small>, and: <small><math>\phi+1=\phi^2</math></small><br>
<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }::1::\phi ::\phi ^2</math></small><br>
<small><math>1/\phi</math></small> and <small><math>\phi</math></small> are the golden sections of <small><math>\sqrt{5}</math></small>:<br>
<small><math>\phi +\frac{1}{\phi }=\sqrt{5}</math></small>
|colspan=2|<small><math>\phi = (\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>1.618034</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\chi = (3\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>3.854102</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = (3\sqrt{5} - 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.854102</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = 11/\chi = 22/(3\sqrt{5} + 1)</math></small>
|<small><math>2.854102</math></small>
|}
== The 16-cell 4-orthoplex ==
In 2-space we have the regular 8-point octagon, in 3-space the regular 8-point cube, and in 4-space the regular 8-point [[16-cell]].
A planar octagon with rigid edges of unit length has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1,r_2=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_3=\sqrt{2}+1 \approx 2.414,r_4=\sqrt{4 + \sqrt{8}} \approx 2.613</math>
The chord ratio <math>r_3=\sqrt{2}+1</math> is a geometrical proportion, the [[W:Silver ratio|silver ratio]]. Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that:
:<math>r_3-r_1-r_1=1/r_3 \approx 0.414</math>
Note that <math>r_3-2=1/r_3=\sqrt{2}-1</math>. Their procedure rotates counterclockwise over three <math>r_3</math> chords of an {8/3} octagram. Over the first <math>r_3</math> chord the displacement is <math>\sqrt{2}+1</math>. Over the second <math>r_3</math> chord it moves in the opposite direction a distance of <math>-1</math> . Over the third <math>r_3</math> chord it also moves a distance of <math>-1</math>. Fontaine and Hurley also demonstrated the significance of <math>1/r_i</math> in Steinbach's Diagonal Product Formula, which says that every chord length is the sum of certain smaller chord lengths. The smaller chords are certain diagonals of the same regular polygon of a smaller edge length, specifically edge length <math>1/r_i</math> rather than <math>1</math>.
If we embed the planar octagon in 3-space, we can make it skew, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from three others instead of two others, at the vertices of a unit-edge cube with chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1, r_2=\sqrt{2}, r_3=\sqrt{3}, r_4=\sqrt{2}</math>
If we embed this cube in 4-space, we can skew it some more, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from six others instead of three others, at the vertices of a unit-edge 4-polytope with chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1,r_2=1,r_3=1,r_4=\sqrt{2}</math>
All of its chords except its long diameters are the same unit length as its edge. In fact they are its 24 edges, and it is a 16-cell of radius <math>1/\sqrt{2}</math>.
[[File:octagon16cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of a regular 16-cell to the [[16-cell#Projections|B<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only its edges are shown; its long diameter chords are not drawn. All 24 edges are the same length and none lie parallel to the projection plane. The octagon circumference is a Petrie polygon. The two disjoint squares lie in completely orthogonal central planes. The blue octagram is a Clifford polygon. ]]
The [[16-cell]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small>. It has 8 vertices, 24 edges, 32 equilateral triangle faces, and 16 regular tetrahedron cells. It is the [[16-cell#Octahedral dipyramid|four-dimensional analogue of the octahedron]], and each of its four orthogonal central hyperplanes is an octahedron.
The only planar regular polygons found in the 16-cell are face triangles and central plane squares, but the 16-cell also contains a skew regular octagon, its [[W:Petrie polygon|Petrie polygon]].{{Efn|name=Petrie polygon of a honeycomb}} The chords of this regular octagon, which lies skew in 4-space, are those given above for the 16-cell, as opposed to those for the cube or the regular octagon in the plane. The 16-cell is a construct of 3 Petrie octagons which share the same 8 vertices but have disjoint sets of 8 edges each.
The regular octad has higher symmetry in 4-space than it does in 2-space. The 16-cell is the 4-[[w:Cross-polytope|orthoplex]], the simplest regular 4-polytope after the [[5-cell|4-simplex]]. All the larger regular convex 4-polytopes are compounds of the 16-cell. The regular octagon exhibits this high symmetry only when embedded in 4-space at the vertices of the 16-cell.
The 16-cell constitutes an [[W:Orthonormal basis|orthonormal basis]] for the choice of a 4-dimensional Cartesian reference frame, because its vertices define four orthogonal axes. The eight vertices of a unit-radius 16-cell are (±1, 0, 0, 0), (0, ±1, 0, 0), (0, 0, ±1, 0), (0, 0, 0, ±1). All vertices are connected by <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges except opposite pairs.
The vertex coordinates of the 16-cell form 6 central squares lying in 6 pairwise [[W:Orthogonal|orthogonal]] coordinate planes. Great squares in opposite planes that do not share an axis (e.g. in the ''xy'' and ''wz'' planes) are completely disjoint (they do not intersect at any vertices). These planes are [[W:Completely orthogonal|completely orthogonal]].{{Efn|name=Six orthogonal planes of the Cartesian basis}}
Since the unit-radius coordinate system is convenient, let us derive the unit-radius 16-cell by skewing a unit-radius planar octagon, which has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{2-\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.765,r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_4=2</math>
We will need a planar octagon with rigid <math>r_2</math> chords, rather than one with rigid <math>r_1</math> edges. The octagon's <math>r_2</math> chords form two disjoint great squares, visible in the orthogonal projection, which we can reposition in 3-space to form a cube by making them parallel, and in 4-space to form a 16-cell by making them completely orthogonal.
Each chord is a distinct 4-vector with a length and a direction. Since the edges of the 16-cell are all the same length <math>r_1=\sqrt{2},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2}</math>, those chords are distinct only in the context of a rotation, where vertices circle over the chords of an <math>r_i</math> polygon. The rotational curve over each <math>r_i</math> chord makes <math>i</math> 45° turns. The angle between two <math>r_i</math> chords is <math>180^\circ - i \times 45^\circ</math>.
[[File:16-cell-orig.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 8-point 16-cell <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small> performing a double rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}}]]
[[W:Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space|Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space]] can be seen as the composition of two 2-dimensional rotations in completely orthogonal planes. The general rotation in 4-space is a [[W:SO(4)#Double rotations|double rotation]] in pairs of completely orthogonal planes. Two completely orthogonal planes are called invariant planes of the rotation when all points in the plane rotate on circles that remain in the plane, even as the whole plane tilts sideways (like a coin flipping) into another plane. The two completely orthogonal rotations of each plane (like a wheel, and like a coin flipping) are simultaneous but independent, in that they are not geometrically constrained to turn at the same rate. However, the most circular kind of rotation (as opposed to an elliptical double rotation of a rigid spherical object) occurs when the completely orthogonal planes do rotate through the same angle in the same time interval. Such equi-angled double rotations are called [[w:SO(4)#Isoclinic_rotations|isoclinic]], also [[w:William_Kingdon_Clifford|Clifford]] displacements.
The <math>r_1</math> chords of the 16-cell form a Petrie polygon {8/1} which zig-zags back and forth, in the left and right rotational directions, between two completely orthogonal great squares formed by <math>r_2</math> chords.
The <math>r_2</math> chords of the 16-cell form an ''edge polygon'' {8/2}=2{4}. The two completely orthogonal great squares lie parallel and perpendicular to each other. A ''simple'' rotation of the 16-cell in ''one'' of those two square central planes rotates that square like a wheel, while the other square does not move.{{Efn|name=simple rotations}} The four vertices of the rotating square orbit on a great circle in the plane.
The <math>r_3</math> chords of the 16-cell form a circular helix, visible as a blue {8/3} octagram in the orthogonal projection. A ''double'' rotation of the 16-cell, in both of two completely orthogonal invariant <math>r_2</math> square planes at once by equal angles, moves the eight vertices along the circular helix over <math>r_3</math> chords. The vertex motion is a [[w:Geodesic|geodesic]] circle orbit on the 3-sphere of a special kind: it does not lie in a central plane, its [[w:Winding_number|winding number]] is not 1 (it is 3 in this case), its circumference is not <math>2\pi</math> (it is <math>6\pi</math> in this case), and it moves in either a left or right handed circular spiral. We shall refer to such a chiral circle orbit as an ''isocline'', and to the skew polygram of its rotational chords as a ''Clifford polygon''.
The 16-cell is the simplest possible frame in which to [[16-cell#Rotations|observe 4-dimensional rotations]] because its characteristic rotations feature a single pair of invariant rotation planes. In the 16-cell an isoclinic rotation by 90° in any pair of invariant completely orthogonal square central planes takes every great square to its completely orthogonal great square in a twisting displacement, as the invariant planes tilt sideways 90° into each other's plane while rotating 90° internally. All the vertices move at once along the same circular helix geodesic isocline of <math>r_3</math> chords, displaced 90° in 8 orthogonal directions, and the rigid 16-cell assumes a new orientation in 4-space. When the 90° isoclinic rotation is continued in the same rotational direction through an additional 90°, each vertex is again displaced 90°, but from the new orientation in a direction orthogonal to its first 90° displacement. The rotational curve over each 90° <math>r_3</math> chord makes three 45° turns. In 360° of isoclinic rotation over four <math>r_3</math> chords, each vertex makes twelve 45° turns and reaches its antipodal position.
The trajectory of each vertex over each 90° isoclinic rotational displacement is a one-eighth segment of its geodesic orbit. Its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over eight <math>r_3</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane twice, over the four <math>r_2</math> edges of a great square in one of the two moving invariant rotation planes. In the course of a 720° isoclinic revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 16-cell returns to its original orientation.
We shall refer to this isoclinic rotation as the ''great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell'', and note once again that it is Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_3</math> {8/3} star polygon, which constructs <math>1/r_3</math>.
== The 8-cell tesseract ==
The long diameter of the unit-edge [[W:Hypercube|hypercube]] of dimension <math>n</math> is <math>\sqrt{n}</math>, so the unit-edge [[w:Tesseract|4-hypercube, the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract,]] has chords:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math>
Uniquely in its 4-dimensional case, the hypercube's edge length equals its radius, like the hexagon. We call such polytopes ''radially equilateral'', because they can be constructed from equilateral triangles which meet at their center, each contributing two radii and an edge. The [[w:Cuboctahedron|cuboctahedron]] and the 24-cell are also radially equilateral.
[[File:8-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation about a plane in 4-space.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The stationary plane bisects the figure from front-left to back-right and top to bottom.]]
The [[W:Tesseract|tesseract]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 16 vertices, 32 edges, 24 square faces, and 8 cube cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cube.
The 16-point tesseract is the convex hull of a compound of two 8-point 16-cells, in exact dimensional analogy to the way the 8-point cube is the convex hull of a [[W:Stellated octahedron|compound of two 4-point regular tetrahedrons]]. The [[W:Demihypercube|demihypercubes]] occupy alternate vertices of the hypercubes. The diagonals of the square faces of the unit-edge, unit-radius tesseract are the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges of two unit-radius 16-cells, also the edges of the square central planes.
We can rotate the tesseract isoclinically the way we rotated the 16-cell, by 90° in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on both alternate-position 16-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cell. The two skew {8/3} octagram Clifford polygons lie on two disjoint parallel isoclines of the same chirality, of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chords. They form a circular double helix which intersects each vertex of the tesseract once. The double helix is an 8-rung ladder twisted around 3 times, and bent into a circle in the fourth dimension with its ends joined. Each rung is a <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chord.
The tesseract is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 16-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew octagon, but the tesseract is a construct of 4 Petrie octagons with disjoint sets of 8 tesseract edges each. We can construct the tesseract by skewing two planar octagons. Because the tesseract is radially equilateral (unlike the 16-cell), we use two octagons of unit-edge length to build the unit-radius tesseract. To start we embed the planar octagons in 4-space at the same point and make them completely orthogonal. Then we skew each planar octagon into a cube, so we have a compound of two completely orthogonal cubes, provided we skewed them both in the same direction. The 16 vertices will be the vertices of a tesseract with half its 32 edges missing.
Because the tesseract contains two 16-cells in alternate positions it has two sets of 6 orthogonal square central planes. Two angles are required to specify the relationship between two planes in 4-space. Pairs of square central planes within each 16-cell are 90° apart in one angle, and either 0° or 90° apart in the other angle. They are 90° apart in both angles if and only if they are completely orthogonal planes, 90° apart by isoclinic rotation, with no vertices in common and their corresponding pairs of vertices 180° apart. Otherwise they are 0° apart in one of the angles, 90° apart by simple rotation, and they intersect in one axis and lie in a common 3-dimensional hyperplane.{{Efn|A double rotation in which one of the two angles of rotation is 0°, so that one of the completely orthogonal invariant planes does not rotate, is called a simple rotation. Ordinary rotations observed in a 3-dimensional space are simple rotations.|name=simple rotations}}
A pair of square central planes from alternate-position 16-cells are 60° apart by isoclinic rotation, with their corresponding pairs of vertices 120° apart. The planes are not orthogonal or parallel, so they intersect in a line somewhere, but they have no vertices in common, they have no 3-dimensional hyperplane in common, and they cannot reach each other by simple rotation. Such pairs of objects are called [[W:Clifford parallel|Clifford parallel]] because all their corresponding pairs of vertices are the same distance apart, although they are not parallel in the usual sense, because they have a common center. Not only the alternate-position 16-cells' corresponding square central planes, but also the 16-cells themselves, are Clifford parallel objects. More generally, multiple disjoint instances of a 4-polytope which compound to make a larger 4-polytope are Clifford parallel objects.
== The 24-cell ==
[[File:24-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the radially equilateral 24-cell, showing its 3 great circle polygons and its 4 chord lengths.]]
In 2-space we have the radially equilateral 6-point hexagon. In 3-space we have the radially equilateral 12-point cuboctahedron, with 4 hexagonal central planes. In 4-space we have the radially equilateral 24-point 24-cell, with 12 cuboctahedron central hyperplanes and 16 hexagonal central planes.
The [[24-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small>. It has 24 vertices, 96 edges, 96 equilateral triangle faces, and 24 octahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cuboctahedron.
The 24-cell has the same chord set as the 4-hypercube tesseract:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math>
[[Image:24-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 24-point 24-cell <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 24 octahedra is visible.]]
The 24-cell is [[W:Dual polytope|self-dual]], like the regular polygons and regular simplexes. It is the maximal regular construct of triangles and squares (with no pentagons). It is the convex hull of a compound of three disjoint 8-point 16-cells, rotated 60° isoclinically with respect to each other. Each of the three pairs of 16-cells is a tesseract. Each 24-cell edge is also a tesseract edge. The corresponding vertices of two 16-cells or two tesseracts are 120° apart by a <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chord. Each tesseract has 8 cube cells, and each cube has four <math>\sqrt{3}</math> long diameters. The <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords joining the corresponding vertices of two tesseracts belong to the third tesseract as cell long diameters.
The 24-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular dodecagon {12}. The unit-radius planar {12}-gon has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}-1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.518,r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}+1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.932,r_6=\sqrt{4}</math>
Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that:
:<math>r_5-r_3+r_1+r_1-r_3=1/r_5</math>
when <math>r_1=1</math>. In the system of unit-radius coordinates <math>r_1=1/r_5</math>. The procedure rotates counterclockwise over five <math>r_5</math> chords of a {12/5} dodecagram.
The <math>r_1</math> and <math>r_5</math> chords of the planar dodecagon do not occur in the 24-cell, which is a construct of eight skew dodecagons with disjoint sets of twelve <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges each. In the skew dodecagons the chord lengths are:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\sqrt{3},r_6=\sqrt{4}</math>
Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation.
The <math>r_1</math> <small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small> chords form 8 Petrie dodecagons which zig-zag back and forth, in the left and right rotational directions, between two Clifford parallel great hexagons formed by <math>r_2</math> chords. The 8 Petrie dodecagons can be divided four ways into 2 disjoint Petrie dodecagons {24/2}=2{12}.
The <math>r_2</math> <small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small> chords form 16 great hexagons, which can be divided four ways into 4 Clifford parallel great hexagons {24/4}=4{6}.
The <math>r_3</math> <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chords form 18 great squares, which can be divided three ways into 6 Clifford parallel great squares {24/6}=6{4}, including one pair of completely orthogonal great squares from each of the three 16-cells.
The <math>r_4</math> <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords form 32 great triangles, which can be divided four ways into 8 disjoint great triangles {24/8}=8{3} inscribed in 4 Clifford parallel great hexagons.
The <math>r_5</math> <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords form 8 circular helix Clifford polygons, visible as a green {12/5} dodecagram in the orthogonal projection. An isoclinic rotation of the 24-cell in 4 invariant <math>r_2</math> hexagon planes moves the vertices along 2 Clifford parallel circular isoclines {24/2}=2{12/5} over <math>r_5</math> chords.
[[File:dodecagon24cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of half a 24-cell to the [[24-cell#Geodesics|F<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only one Petrie dodecagon {12} of the 24-cell is shown. In a unit-radius 24-cell, all black lines are 24-cell edges of unit length, also tesseract edges. The two disjoint hexagons lie in Clifford parallel central planes. Blue chords are <math>\sqrt{2}</math> 16-cell edges of Clifford parallel great squares, also isocline chords in great square rotations. Green chords are <math>\sqrt{3}</math> distances between corresponding vertices of two 16-cells, also isocline chords in great hexagon rotations. The green {12/5} dodecagram is a Clifford polygon.]]
[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} shows three octagram isoclines of <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math> </small>chords in the 24-cell]]
We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 6 Clifford parallel invariant great square planes containing 16-cell edges, in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on all three 16-cells. In 720° each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cells. The rotational curve over each 90° <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chord makes three 45° turns. Three Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chords form a circular triple helix {24/9}=3{8/3} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. The triple helix is an 8-step circular staircase that twists around 3 times, and is bent into a torus in the fourth dimension. Each staircase step is a great triangle of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords.
[[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} shows 2 dodecagram isoclines of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords in the 24-cell]]We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 4 Clifford parallel invariant great hexagon planes containing 24-cell edges, over <math>r_{5}</math> isocline chords. This is the ''great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell'', also Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_5</math> {12/5} star polygon which constructs <math>1/r_5</math>. A complete 24-cell great circle edge plane revolution requires 720° like a complete 16-cell great circle edge plane revolution, but it is completed in 12 isoclinic displacements of 60° each rather than 8 isoclinic displacements of 90° each. An isoclinic rotation by 60° in an invariant central plane containing a 24-cell edge takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon in a twisting displacement, as 4 invariant great hexagon planes tilt sideways 60° while rotating 60° internally. It also takes every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. All 24 vertices move at once on Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 120° in different directions. The trajectory of each vertex over each 60° rotational displacement is a one-twelfth segment of its geodesic orbit. Its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space over 12 <math>r_5</math> <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane 5 times in a moving invariant rotation plane. The rotational curve over each <math>r_5</math> 120° chord makes five 30° turns. Two Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> form a circular double helix {24/10}=2{12/5} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 24-cell returns to its original orientation.
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |6 distinct 180° chord pairs make 6 distinct isoclinic rotations
|-
! colspan="3" |Short chords
!Invariant planes
! colspan="3" |Long chords
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_1</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_24.svg|100px]]<br>{24/1}={24}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-11.svg|100px]]<br>{24/11}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{11}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|165°
|15°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_2</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/2}=2{12}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_4(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/4}=4{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,5).svg|100px]]<br>{24/10}=2{12/5}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{10}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|150°
|30°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_3</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/3}=3{8}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|100px]]<br>{24/9}=3{8/3}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{9}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|135°
|45°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_4</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_4(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/4}=4{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_12(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/12}=12{2}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_8(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/8}=8{3}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{8}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|120°
|60°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_5</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-5.svg|100px]]<br>{24/5}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-7.svg|100px]]<br>{24/7}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{7}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|105°
|75°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_6</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{6}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|90°
|90°
|}
By examining the chords <math>r_i</math> of the 24-cell's Petrie {12}-gon we have found two distinct isoclinic rotations, the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell and the great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell. If we examine the chords <math>t_i</math> of the 24-cell's {24}-gon we find these, and also four other distinct isoclinic rotations.
Each row of the table describes a distinct isoclinic rotation of the 24-cell characterized by a pair of chords whose arc-lengths sum to 180°. Each chord lies in a central plane which is either a great square or a great hexagon. Each short chord plane is completely orthogonal to a corresponding long chord plane. These central planes are not to be confused with the invariant planes of the rotation, which intersect 0, 2, 4, or 6 vertices of the 24-cell as illustrated in the center column of each row.
The short chord and long chord each have their characteristic {24/''n''}-gon, which correspond as projections of the 24-cell to completely orthogonal planes. Their projection viewpoints look straight down orthogonal cylinders which are actually [[w:SO(4)#Visualization_of_4D_rotations|bent into tori in 4-space]].
Each {24/''n''}-gon forms ''n'' disjoint Clifford parallel regular polygons. Polygons with {2}, {3}, {4} or {6} sides lie in a central plane, and all others lie skew in 4-space. The rotational angle between successive short chords in 4-space and the rotational angle between successive long chords in 4-space sum to 180°. Those angles distinguish distinct chords <math>t_i</math> which are the same length.
Each isoclinic rotation takes two chiral forms. There is a ''right rotation'' and a ''left rotation'' for each row of the table. The right and left rotations are enantiomorphous reflections of each other like a pair of clasped hands, with non-congruent vertex position sequences. The right rotation takes Clifford parallel short chord polygons to each other, while the long chord polygons remain stationary in 4-space as vertices circle over them. In the left rotation the roles of the short chord polygon and the long chord polygon are reversed: the short chord polygons are stationary in 4-space as vertices circle over them, and the rotation takes Clifford parallel long chord polygons to each other.
{{Clear}}
== The 600-cell ==
[[Image:600-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 120-point 600-cell <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2011}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 600 tetrahedra is visible. Invisible in this rendering are 25 inscribed instances of the 24-cell (above), which occur in the 600-cell as interior boundary envelopes.]]
The [[600-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small>. It has 120 vertices, 720 edges, 1200 equilateral triangle faces, and 600 tetrahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the icosahedron.
The 600-cell rounds out the 24-cell by adding 96 more vertices (four more disjoint 24-cells) between the 24-cell's existing 24 vertices, in effect adding twenty-four more distinct 24-cells inscribed in the 600-cell. The new surface thus formed is a honeycomb of smaller, more numerous cells: tetrahedra of edge length <math>\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> instead of octahedra of edge length <math>\sqrt{1}</math>. It encloses the <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges of the 24-cells, which become invisible interior chords in the 600-cell, like the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords.
Since the tetrahedra are made of shorter triangle edges than the octahedra (by a factor of <math>\phi^{-1}</math> the inverse golden ratio), the 600-cell is not radially equilateral like the 24-cell and the tesseract. Like them it is radially triangular in a special way, but one in which [[w:Golden_triangle_(mathematics)|golden triangles]] rather than equilateral triangles meet at the center.
In 2-space we have the ''radially golden'' [[W:Decagon#The golden ratio in decagon|regular decagon]]. In 3-space we have the radially golden 30-point [[W:icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]], with 6 decagon central planes. In 4-space we have the radially golden 120-point 600-cell, with 60 icosidodecahedron central hyperplanes and 72 decagon central planes.
The 600-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular [[w:Triacontagon|triacontagon {30}]]. The unit-radius planar {30}-gon has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.209</math>
:<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.416</math>
:<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.813</math>
:<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math>
:<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.338</math>
:<math>r_8=2 \cos (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.486</math>
:<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math>
:<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{11}=2 \cos (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.827</math>
:<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{13}=2 \cos (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.956</math>
:<math>r_{14}=2 \cos (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.989</math>
:<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math>
Only the chord lengths <math>r_3</math>, <math>r_5</math>, <math>r_6</math>, <math>\sqrt{2}</math>, <math>r_9</math>, <math>r_{10}</math>, <math>r_{12}</math>, <math>r_{15}</math> occur in the 600-cell, which is a construct of 24 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>r_3</math>, six of which intersect in each icosahedral vertex figure. In the skew {30}-gons the chord lengths are:
[[File:600-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the 600-cell, showing its 5 regular great circle polygons and its 8 chord lengths with angles of arc. The golden ratio governs the fractional roots of every other chord, and the radial golden triangles which meet at the center.|400x400px]]
:<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math>
:<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math>
:<math>r_8=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math>
:<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math>
:<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{11}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{13}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{14}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math>
Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation.
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |15 chords (4 distinct 180° pairs) make 4 distinct section polyhedra
|-
! colspan="3" |Edge chords
! Section
! colspan="3" |Isocline chords
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_0</math>
|0°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2}
|180°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{15}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0}}
|{{radic|4}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0
|2
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|180°
|0°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_1</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14}=2{15/7}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{14}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|168°
|12°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_2</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{13}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|156°
|24°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_3</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V1 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{12}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|144°
|36°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_4</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{11}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|132°
|48°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_5</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V2 dodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Dodecahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{10}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|120°
|60°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{6}</math>
|72°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V3 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3}
|108°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{9}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|1.382~}}
|{{radic|2.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|1.176~
|1.618~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|108°
|72°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{7}</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V4 icosidodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosidodecahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{8}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|96°
|84°
|}
The list of 600-cell chords <math>r_{i}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 8 rows with a pair of 180° complements in each row. The short edge chord and long isocline chord each have their characteristic {30/n}-gon. Each row identifies a distinct isoclinic rotation of the 600-cell.
Each distinct pair of complementary chord lengths is identified with a distinct [[w:600-cell#Polyhedral sections|polyhedral section of the 600-cell]] beginning with a vertex. In spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]], every vertex is the center of a set of 7 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>\phi^{-1}</math> is a icosahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>\sqrt{2}</math> is an [[W:Icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]] central section bisecting the 600-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>\sqrt{2}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal icosahedron vertex figure at distance <math>\sqrt{2+\phi}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 7 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section).
[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>]]
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on 15 disjoint 16-cells. Each 90° displacement takes 15 pairs of completely orthogonal invariant great square planes to each other. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. The rotational curve over each 90° chord makes three 45° turns. Fifteen Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> form a circular fibration of 15 twisted parallel strands 5{24/9}=15{8/3} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great square planes, which has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. This ''great square rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' takes place over <math>r_7</math> edge chords and <math>r_8</math> isocline chords. The {30/7} edge polygon is a skew helix of circumference <math>14\pi</math> with each <math>r_7</math> edge belonging to a distinct great square. The four {30/7} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. Each 90° displacement takes every 16-cell to another 16-cell. The vertices of the invariant great squares each make seven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/7} edge makes seven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/7} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The {30/8}=2{15/4} Clifford polygon is a compound of two skew {15/4} pentadecagrams of circumference <math>16\pi</math> with each <math>r_8</math> isocline chord belonging to a distinct 16-cell. The four {30/8} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/8} isocline chord makes eight 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/8} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
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[[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> ]]
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell, over <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords, with the same effect on 5 disjoint 24-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions of its 24-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. Ten Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> form a circular fibration of ten twisted parallel strands 5{24/10}=10{12/5} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great hexagon planes, over <math>r_{4}=\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>r_{11}=\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords This ''great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. Its {30/11} Clifford polygon is a skew helix where each <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord is the <math>\sqrt{3}</math> diagonal of a great hexagon of a distinct 24-cell. The vertices of the invariant great hexagons of this rotation each make eleven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord makes eleven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/11} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>22\pi</math> over <math>r_{11}</math> chords form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in 12 Clifford parallel invariant decagon central planes containing its 36° <math>r_{3}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{12}</math> isocline chords. This ''great pentagon rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' has period 5 and takes disjoint 24-cells to each other. The rotational curve over each <math>r_{12}</math> chord of its {5/2} Clifford polygon makes twelve 12° turns. 24 Clifford parallel {5/2} pentagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>4\pi</math> over five <math>r_{12}</math> chords form a circular fibration of 24 twisted parallel strands 4{30/12}=24{5/2} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The rotation of the 600-cell by 36° in any invariant decagon central plane takes every great decagon to a Clifford parallel great decagon in a twisting displacement, as all the central planes tilt sideways 36° while rotating 36° internally. It also takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon, and every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. The 24-cells revolve within the 600-cell, as the 16-cells revolve within the 24-cells. All 120 vertices move at once on four Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 144° in different directions.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great decagon planes containing its 36° <math>r_{2}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chords. This rotation has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. The rotational curve over each 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chord makes thirteen 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/13} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>26\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
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== Finally the 120-cell ==
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |30 chords (15 180° pairs) make 15 distinct section polyhedra
|-
! colspan="3" |Edge chords
! Section
! colspan="3" |Isocline chords
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_0</math>
|0°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2}
|180°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{30}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0}}
|{{radic|4}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0
|2
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|180°
|0°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_1</math>
|15.5~°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14}
|164.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{29}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0.073~}}
|{{radic|3.927~}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0.270~
|1.982~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|168°
|12°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_2</math>
|25.2~°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13}
|154.8~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{28}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.191~}}
|{{radic|3.809~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.437~
|1.952~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|156°
|24°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_3</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{27}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|144°
|36°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_4</math>
|41.4~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|138.6~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{26}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.5}}
|{{radic|3.5}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.707~
|1.871~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|138°
|42°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_5</math>
|44.5~°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11}
|135.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{25}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0.573~}}
|{{radic|3.427~}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0.757~
|1.851~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|132°
|48°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_6</math>
|49.1~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|130.9~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{24}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.691~}}
|{{radic|3.309~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.831~
|1.819~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|128°
|52°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_7</math>
|56°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|124°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{23}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.882~}}
|{{radic|3.118~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.939~
|1.766~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|124°
|56°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_8</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{22}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|120°
|60°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_9</math>
|66.1~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|113.9~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{21}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1.191~}}
|{{radic|2.809~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1.091~
|1.676~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|116°
|64°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{10}</math>
|69.8~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|110.2~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{20}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1.309~}}
|{{radic|2.691~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1.144~
|1.640~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|112°
|68°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{11}</math>
|72°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3}
|108°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{19}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|1.382~}}
|{{radic|2.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|1.176~
|1.618~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|108°
|72°
|- style="background: palegreen; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{12}</math>
|75.5~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4}
|104.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{18}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1.5}}
|{{radic|2.5}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1.224~
|1.581~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|96°
|84°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{13}</math>
|81.1~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|98.9~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{17}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1.691~}}
|{{radic|2.309~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1.300~
|1.520~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|°
|°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{14}</math>
|84.5~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|95.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{16}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.809~}}
|{{radic|2.191~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1.345~
|1.480~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|°
|°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{15}</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{15}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|90°
|90°
|}
The [[120-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 600 vertices, 1200 edges, 720 pentagon faces, and 120 dodecahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the dodecahedron.
The [[User:Dc.samizdat/Golden chords of the 120-cell#Thirty distinguished distances|list of thirty 120-cell chords]] <math>c_{t}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 16 rows and 2 columns with a pair of 180° complements in each row. This table first appears in [[w:Regular_Polytopes_(book)|''Regular Polytopes'']] (1947),{{Sfn|Coxeter|1973|loc=Table V(v): Simplified sections of {5,3,3} beginning with a vertex|pp=300-301}} where Coxeter identified each row with a distinct [[w:120-cell#Concentric_hulls|polyhedral section of the 120-cell]] beginning with a vertex. He showed that in spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] every vertex is the center of a set of 29 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>c_1</math> is a tetrahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>c_{15}</math> is a central section bisecting the 120-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>c_{15}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal tetrahedron vertex figure at distance <math>c_{29}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 29 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section). Each section also lies completely orthogonal to a congruent section.
Only 8 of the 30 chords in the table occur in the 600-cell. The 120-cell's additional chords arise originally from the regular 5-cell 4-simplex, in its interaction with the other regular 4-polytopes that compound to make the 120-cell. Since all those polytopes except the 5-cell occur in the 600-cell, and the 600-cell and the 120-cell have the same symmetry group, the 5-cell's symmetry group is the entirety of what's new in the 120-cell.
The 120-cell is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 600-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew triacontagon {30}, but the 120-cell is a construct of 40 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>c_1</math>, two of which intersect in each tetrahedral vertex figure.
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== Conclusions ==
Fontaine and Hurley's discovery is more than a geometric formula for the reciprocal of a regular ''n''-polygon diagonal. It also yields the discrete sequence of isocline chords of the characteristic isoclinic rotation of a ''d''-dimensional polytope. The characteristic rotational chord sequence of the ''d''-polytope can be represented geometrically in two dimensions on a distinct star polygon, but it lies on a geodesic circle through ''d''-dimensional space. Fontaine and Hurley discovered the geodesic topology of polytopes generally. Their procedure will reveal the geodesics of arbitrary non-uniform polytopes, since it can be applied to a polytope of any dimensionality and irregularity, by first fitting the polytope to the smallest regular polygon whose chords include its chords. [If what is meant by this is its Petrie polygon, it is not quite necessary or possible with respect to the planar polygon chords, e.g. the planar Petrie polygon of the 600-cell does not contain the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chord. But perhaps it would work if the fit is to the smallest regular skew polygon in the ''d''-space.]
The discovery of a chordal construction for discrete isoclinic rotations generally closes the circuit on Kappraff and Adamson's discovery of a rotational connection between dynamical systems, Steinbach's golden fields, and Coxeter's Euclidean geometry of reflections in ''n'' dimensions. Application of the Fontaine and Hurley procedure to the 120-cell demonstrates why the connection exists: because polytope sequences generally, from Steinbach's golden chord sequences in polygons, to sequences of star polygons in isoclinic rotations, to subsumption relations in the sequence of regular 4-polytopes, arise as expressions of the reflections and rotations of distinct Coxeter symmetry groups, when those various groups interact.
== Appendix: Sequence of regular 4-polytopes ==
{{Regular convex 4-polytopes|wiki=W:|columns=7}}
== Notes ==
{{Notelist}}
== Citations ==
{{Reflist}}
== References ==
{{Refbegin}}
* {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=1997 | title=Golden fields: A case for the Heptagon | journal=Mathematics Magazine | volume=70 | issue=Feb 1997 | pages=22–31 | doi=10.1080/0025570X.1997.11996494 | jstor=2691048 | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|1997}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=2000 | title=Sections Beyond Golden| journal=Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music and Science | issue=2000 | pages=35-44 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2000/bridges2000-35.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|2000}}}}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Jablan | first2=Slavik | last3=Adamson | first3=Gary | last4=Sazdanovich | first4=Radmila | year=2004 | title=Golden Fields, Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, and Chaotic Matrices | journal=Forma | volume=19 | pages=367-387 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2005/bridges2005-369.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff, Jablan, Adamson & Sazdanovich|2004}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Adamson | first2=Gary | year=2004 | title=Polygons and Chaos | journal=Dynamical Systems and Geometric Theories | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2001/bridges2001-67.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff & Adamson|2004}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Fontaine | first1=Anne | last2=Hurley | first2=Susan | year=2006 | title=Proof by Picture: Products and Reciprocals of Diagonal Length Ratios in the Regular Polygon | journal=Forum Geometricorum | volume=6 | pages=97-101 | url=https://scispace.com/pdf/proof-by-picture-products-and-reciprocals-of-diagonal-length-1aian8mgp9.pdf }}
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= Golden chords of the 120-cell =
{{align|center|David Brooks Christie}}
{{align|center|dc@samizdat.org}}
{{align|center|Draft in progress}}
{{align|center|January 2026 - June 2026}}
<blockquote>Steinbach discovered the formula for the ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. Fontaine and Hurley extended this result, discovering a formula for the reciprocal of a regular polygon chord derived geometrically from the chord's star polygon. We observe that these findings in plane geometry apply more generally, to polytopes of any dimensionality. Fontaine and Hurley's geometric procedure for finding the reciprocals of the chords of a regular polygon from their star polygons also finds the rotational geodesics of any polytope of any dimensionality.</blockquote>
== Introduction ==
Steinbach discovered the Diagonal Product Formula and the Golden Fields family of ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. He showed how this family extends beyond the pentagon {5} with its well-known golden bisection proportional to 𝜙, finding that the heptagon {7} has an analogous trisection, the nonagon {9} has an analogous quadrasection, and the hendecagon {11} has an analogous pentasection, an extended family of golden proportions with quasiperiodic properties.
Kappraff and Adamson extended these findings in plane geometry to a theory of Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, showing that the Golden Fields not only do not end with the hendecagon, they form an infinite number of periodic trajectories when operated on by the Mandelbrot operator. They found a relation between the edges of star polygons and dynamical systems in the state of chaos, revealing a connection between chaos theory, number, and rotations in Coxeter Euclidean geometry.
Fontaine and Hurley examined Steinbach's finding that the length of each chord of a regular polygon is both the product of two chords and the sum of a set of smaller chords, so that in rotations to add is to multiply. They illustrated Steinbach's sets of additive chords lying parallel to each other in the plane (pointing in the same direction), and by applying Steinbach's formula more generally they found another summation relation of signed parallel chords (pointing in opposite directions) which relates each chord length to its reciprocal, and relates the summation to a distinct star polygon rotation.
We examine these remarkable findings (which stem from study of the chords of humble regular polygons) in higher-dimensional spaces, specifically in the chords, polygons and rotations of the [[120-cell]], the largest four-dimensional regular convex polytope.
== Visualizing the 120-cell ==
{| class="wikitable floatright" width="400"
|style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:120-cell.gif|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point 120-cell <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small> performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]].{{Sfn|Hise|2011|loc=File:120-cell.gif|ps=; "Created by Jason Hise with Maya and Macromedia Fireworks. A 3D projection of a 120-cell performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]]."}} In this simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges are shown; its 29 interior chords are not rendered. Therefore even though it is translucent, only its outer surface is visible. The complex interior parts of the 120-cell, all its inscribed 5-cells, 16-cells, 8-cells, 24-cells, 600-cells and its much larger inventory of polyhedra, are completely invisible in this view, as none of their edges are rendered at all.
|style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:Ortho solid 016-uniform polychoron p33-t0.png|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point [[W:Great grand stellated 120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] <small><math>\{\tfrac{5}{2},3,3\}</math></small>.{{Sfn|Ruen: Great grand stellated 120-cell|2007}} The 120-cell is its convex hull. The projection to the left renders only the 120-cell's shortest chord, its 1200 edges. The projection above also renders only one of the 120-cell's 30 chords, the edges of its 120 inscribed regular 5-cells. The 120-cell itself (the convex hull) is invisible in this view, as its edges are not rendered.
|}
[[120-cell#Geometry|The 120-cell is the maximally complex regular 4-polytope]], containing inscribed instances of every regular 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-polytope, except the regular polygons of more than {15} sides.
The 120-cell is the convex hull of a regular [[120-cell#Relationships among interior polytopes|compound of each of the 6 regular convex 4-polytopes]]. They are the [[5-cell|5-point (5-cell) 4-simplex]], the [[16-cell|8-point (16-cell) 4-orthoplex]], the [[W:Tesseract|16-point (8-cell) tesseract]], the [[24-cell|24-point (24-cell)]], the [[600-cell|120-point (600-cell)]], and the [[120-cell|600-point (120-cell)]]. The 120-cell is the convex hull of a compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells, of 75 disjoint 16-cells, of 25 disjoint 24-cells, and of 5 disjoint 600-cells.
The 120-cell contains an even larger inventory of irregular polytopes, created by the intersection of multiple instances of these component regular 4-polytopes. Many are quite unexpected, because they do not occur as components of any regular polytope smaller than the 120-cell. As just one example among the [[120-cell#Concentric hulls|sections of the 120-cell]], there is an irregular 24-point polyhedron with 16 triangle faces and 4 nonagon {9} faces.{{Sfn|Moxness|}}
Most renderings of the 120-cell, like the rotating projection here, only illustrate its outer surface, which is a honeycomb of face-bonded dodecahedral cells. Only the objects in its 3-dimensional surface are rendered, namely the 120 dodecahedra, their pentagon faces, and their edges. Although the 120-cell has chords of 30 distinct lengths, in this kind of simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges (its shortest chord) are shown. Its 29 interior chords, the edges of objects in the interior of the 120-cell, are not rendered, so interior objects are not visible at all.
Visualizing the complete interior of the 600-vertex 120-cell in a single image is impractical because of its complexity. Only four 120-cell edges are incident at each vertex, but [[120-cell#Chords|600 chords (of all 30 lengths)]] are incident at ''each'' vertex.
== Compounds in the 120-cell ==
The 8-point (16-cell), not the 5-point (5-cell) 4-simplex, is the smallest building block; it compounds to every larger regular 4-polytope. The 5-point (5-cell) does compound to the 600-point (120-cell), but it does not fit into any smaller regular 4-polytope.
The 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 2 in the 16-point (8-cell), and by 3 in the 24-point (24-cell). The 16-point (8-cell) compounds in the 24-point (24-cell) by 3 non-disjoint instances of itself, with each of the 24 vertices shared by two 16-point (8-cells). The 24-point (24-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell), and the 120-point (600-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell).
The 24-point (24-cell) also compounds by 5<sup>2</sup> non-disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell); it compounds in 5 disjoint instances of itself, 10 (not 5) different ways. Whichever set of 5 disjoint 24-point (24-cells) are assembled, the resulting 120-point (600-cell) contains 25 distinct 24-point (24-cells), not just 5 (or 10). Consequently 15 disjoint 8-point (16-cells) will construct a 120-point (600-cell), which contains 75 distinct 8-point (16-cells).
The 600-point (120-cell) is 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), just 2 different ways (not 5 or 10 ways), so it is 10 distinct 120-point (600-cells). Consequently the 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 3 times 5<sup>2</sup> (75) disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell), which contains 3<sup>2</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (225) distinct instances of the 24-point (24-cell), and 3<sup>3</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (675) distinct instances of the 8-point (16-cell).
These facts were discovered painstakingly by various researchers, and no one has found a general rule governing subsumption relations among regular polytopes. The reasons for some of their numeric incidence relations are far from obvious. [[W:Pieter Hendrik Schoute|Schoute]] was the first to see that the 120-point (600-cell) is a compound of 5 24-point (24-cells) ''10 different ways'', and after he saw it a hundred years lapsed until Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne proved his result, and showed why.{{Sfn|Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne|2020|loc=''The geometry of H4 polytopes''}}
So much for the compounds of 16-cells. The 120-cell is also the convex hull of the compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells. That stellated compound (without its convex hull of 120-cell edges) is the [[w:Great_grand_stellated_120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] illustrated above, the final regular [[W:Stellation|stellation]] of the 120-cell, and the only [[W:Schläfli-Hess polychoron|regular star 4-polytope]] to have the 120-cell for its convex hull. The edges of the great grand stellated 120-cell are <math>\phi^6</math> as long as those of its 120-cell [[W:List of polyhedral stellations#Stellation process|stellation core]] deep inside.
The compound of 120 disjoint 5-point (5-cells) can be seen to be equivalent to the compound of 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), as follows. Beginning with a single 120-point (600-cell), expand each vertex into a regular 5-cell, by adding 4 new equidistant vertices, such that the 5 vertices form a regular 5-cell inscribed in the 3-sphere. The 120 5-cells are disjoint, and the 600 vertices form 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells): a 120-cell.
== Thirty distinguished distances ==
The 30 numbers listed in the table are all-important in Euclidean geometry. A case can be made on symmetry grounds that their squares are the 30 most important numbers between 0 and 4. The 30 rows of the table are the 30 distinct [[120-cell#Geodesic rectangles|chord lengths of the unit-radius 120-cell]], the largest regular convex 4-polytope. Since the 120-cell subsumes all smaller regular polytopes, its 30 chords are the complete chord set of all the regular polytopes that can be constructed in the first four dimensions of Euclidean space, except for regular polygons of more than 15 sides.
{| class="wikitable" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
!rowspan=2|<math>c_t</math>
!rowspan=2|arc
!rowspan=2|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{n}\right\}</math></small>
!rowspan=2|<math>\left\{p\right\}</math>
!rowspan=2|<small><math>m\left\{\frac{k}{d}\right\}</math></small>
!rowspan=2|Steinbach roots
!colspan=7|Chord lengths of the unit 120-cell
|-
!colspan=5|unit-radius length <math>c_t</math>
!colspan=2|unit-edge length <math>c_t/c_1</math><br>in 120-cell of radius <math>c_8=\sqrt{2}\phi^2</math>
|-
|<small><math>c_{1,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>15.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>c_{4,1}-c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.270091</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi ^2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^4}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.072949}</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1.</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>25.2{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>2 \left\{15\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(c_{18,1}-c_{4,1}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{3-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.437016</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.190983}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi </math></small>
|<small><math>1.61803</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{3,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>36{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{10\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>3 \left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right) c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>0.618034</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.381966}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>2.28825</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>41.4{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.707107</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.61803</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{5,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>44.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{4}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>2 \left\{\frac{15}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.756934</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}}{\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.572949}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>2.80252</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{6,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>49.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{17}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.831254</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5}}{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.690983}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>3.07768</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{7,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>56.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.93913</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.881966}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>3.47709</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>60{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1.</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>3.70246</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{9,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>66.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{2 \phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.09132</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.19098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>4.04057</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{10,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>69.8{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2 \sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.14412</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\phi }{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^2}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>4.23607</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{11,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>72{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{6}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.17557</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.38197}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \sqrt{3-\phi } \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.3525</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{12,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>75.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{24}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.22474</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.53457</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{13,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>81.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.30038</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.69098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.8146</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{14,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>84.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{9}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi } c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{1+\sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.345</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi }}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5} \phi }{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>4.9798</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{15,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>90.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.41421</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>5.23607</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{16,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>95.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{29}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.4802</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.19098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>5.48037</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{17,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>98.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{31}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.51954</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(7+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>5.62605</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{18,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>104.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{8}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{4}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.58114</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{5} \sqrt{\phi ^4}</math></small>
|<small><math>5.8541</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{19,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>108.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{9}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>c_{3,1}+c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>1.61803</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi </math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1+\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.61803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>5.9907</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{20,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>110.2{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.64042</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.69098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\phi ^2}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.07359</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{21,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>113.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{19}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.67601</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\chi }{\phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.20537</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{22,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>120{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{10}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.73205</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{6} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>6.41285</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{23,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>124.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{41}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }+\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.7658</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.11803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.53779</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{24,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>130.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.81907</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\sqrt{5}}{\phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.73503</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{25,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>135.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.85123</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\phi ^2}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^4}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.42705}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^4</math></small>
|<small><math>6.8541</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{26,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>138.6{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{12}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.87083</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{7} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>6.92667</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{27,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>144{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{12}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{5}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.90211</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\phi +2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2+\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.61803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{2 \phi +4}</math></small>
|<small><math>7.0425</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{28,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>154.8{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.95167</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>7.22598</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{29,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>164.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{14}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi c_{12,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>1.98168</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3 \phi ^2}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.92705}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>7.33708</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{30,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>180{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{15}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.</math></small>
|<small><math>2</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4.}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 \sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>7.40492</math></small>
|-
|rowspan=4 colspan=6|
|rowspan=4 colspan=4|
<small><math>\phi</math></small> is the golden ratio:<br>
<small><math>\phi ^2-\phi -1=0</math></small><br>
<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }+1=\phi</math></small>, and: <small><math>\phi+1=\phi^2</math></small><br>
<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }::1::\phi ::\phi ^2</math></small><br>
<small><math>1/\phi</math></small> and <small><math>\phi</math></small> are the golden sections of <small><math>\sqrt{5}</math></small>:<br>
<small><math>\phi +\frac{1}{\phi }=\sqrt{5}</math></small>
|colspan=2|<small><math>\phi = (\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>1.618034</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\chi = (3\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>3.854102</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = (3\sqrt{5} - 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.854102</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = 11/\chi = 22/(3\sqrt{5} + 1)</math></small>
|<small><math>2.854102</math></small>
|}
== The 16-cell 4-orthoplex ==
In 2-space we have the regular 8-point octagon, in 3-space the regular 8-point cube, and in 4-space the regular 8-point [[16-cell]].
A planar octagon with rigid edges of unit length has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1,r_2=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_3=\sqrt{2}+1 \approx 2.414,r_4=\sqrt{4 + \sqrt{8}} \approx 2.613</math>
The chord ratio <math>r_3=\sqrt{2}+1</math> is a geometrical proportion, the [[W:Silver ratio|silver ratio]]. Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that:
:<math>r_3-r_1-r_1=1/r_3 \approx 0.414</math>
Note that <math>r_3-2=1/r_3=\sqrt{2}-1</math>. Their procedure rotates counterclockwise over three <math>r_3</math> chords of an {8/3} octagram. Over the first <math>r_3</math> chord the displacement is <math>\sqrt{2}+1</math>. Over the second <math>r_3</math> chord it moves in the opposite direction a distance of <math>-1</math> . Over the third <math>r_3</math> chord it also moves a distance of <math>-1</math>. Fontaine and Hurley also demonstrated the significance of <math>1/r_i</math> in Steinbach's Diagonal Product Formula, which says that every chord length is the sum of certain smaller chord lengths. The smaller chords are certain diagonals of the same regular polygon of a smaller edge length, specifically edge length <math>1/r_i</math> rather than <math>1</math>.
If we embed the planar octagon in 3-space, we can make it skew, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from three others instead of two others, at the vertices of a unit-edge cube with chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1, r_2=\sqrt{2}, r_3=\sqrt{3}, r_4=\sqrt{2}</math>
If we embed this cube in 4-space, we can skew it some more, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from six others instead of three others, at the vertices of a unit-edge 4-polytope with chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1,r_2=1,r_3=1,r_4=\sqrt{2}</math>
All of its chords except its long diameters are the same unit length as its edge. In fact they are its 24 edges, and it is a 16-cell of radius <math>1/\sqrt{2}</math>.
[[File:octagon16cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of a regular 16-cell to the [[16-cell#Projections|B<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only its edges are shown; its long diameter chords are not drawn. All 24 edges are the same length and none lie parallel to the projection plane. The octagon circumference is a Petrie polygon. The two disjoint squares lie in completely orthogonal central planes. The blue octagram is a Clifford polygon. ]]
The [[16-cell]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small>. It has 8 vertices, 24 edges, 32 equilateral triangle faces, and 16 regular tetrahedron cells. It is the [[16-cell#Octahedral dipyramid|four-dimensional analogue of the octahedron]], and each of its four orthogonal central hyperplanes is an octahedron.
The only planar regular polygons found in the 16-cell are face triangles and central plane squares, but the 16-cell also contains a skew regular octagon, its [[W:Petrie polygon|Petrie polygon]].{{Efn|name=Petrie polygon of a honeycomb}} The chords of this regular octagon, which lies skew in 4-space, are those given above for the 16-cell, as opposed to those for the cube or the regular octagon in the plane. The 16-cell is a construct of 3 Petrie octagons which share the same 8 vertices but have disjoint sets of 8 edges each.
The regular octad has higher symmetry in 4-space than it does in 2-space. The 16-cell is the 4-[[w:Cross-polytope|orthoplex]], the simplest regular 4-polytope after the [[5-cell|4-simplex]]. All the larger regular convex 4-polytopes are compounds of the 16-cell. The regular octagon exhibits this high symmetry only when embedded in 4-space at the vertices of the 16-cell.
The 16-cell constitutes an [[W:Orthonormal basis|orthonormal basis]] for the choice of a 4-dimensional Cartesian reference frame, because its vertices define four orthogonal axes. The eight vertices of a unit-radius 16-cell are (±1, 0, 0, 0), (0, ±1, 0, 0), (0, 0, ±1, 0), (0, 0, 0, ±1). All vertices are connected by <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges except opposite pairs.
The vertex coordinates of the 16-cell form 6 central squares lying in 6 pairwise [[W:Orthogonal|orthogonal]] coordinate planes. Great squares in opposite planes that do not share an axis (e.g. in the ''xy'' and ''wz'' planes) are completely disjoint (they do not intersect at any vertices). These planes are [[W:Completely orthogonal|completely orthogonal]].{{Efn|name=Six orthogonal planes of the Cartesian basis}}
Since the unit-radius coordinate system is convenient, let us derive the unit-radius 16-cell by skewing a unit-radius planar octagon, which has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{2-\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.765,r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_4=2</math>
We will need a planar octagon with rigid <math>r_2</math> chords, rather than one with rigid <math>r_1</math> edges. The octagon's <math>r_2</math> chords form two disjoint great squares, visible in the orthogonal projection, which we can reposition in 3-space to form a cube by making them parallel, and in 4-space to form a 16-cell by making them completely orthogonal.
Each chord is a distinct 4-vector with a length and a direction. Since the edges of the 16-cell are all the same length <math>r_1=\sqrt{2},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2}</math>, those chords are distinct only in the context of a rotation, where vertices circle over the chords of an <math>r_i</math> polygon. The rotational curve over each <math>r_i</math> chord makes <math>i</math> 45° turns. The angle between two <math>r_i</math> chords is <math>180^\circ - i \times 45^\circ</math>.
[[File:16-cell-orig.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 8-point 16-cell <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small> performing a double rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}}]]
[[W:Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space|Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space]] can be seen as the composition of two 2-dimensional rotations in completely orthogonal planes. The general rotation in 4-space is a [[W:SO(4)#Double rotations|double rotation]] in pairs of completely orthogonal planes. Two completely orthogonal planes are called invariant planes of the rotation when all points in the plane rotate on circles that remain in the plane, even as the whole plane tilts sideways (like a coin flipping) into another plane. The two completely orthogonal rotations of each plane (like a wheel, and like a coin flipping) are simultaneous but independent, in that they are not geometrically constrained to turn at the same rate. However, the most circular kind of rotation (as opposed to an elliptical double rotation of a rigid spherical object) occurs when the completely orthogonal planes do rotate through the same angle in the same time interval. Such equi-angled double rotations are called [[w:SO(4)#Isoclinic_rotations|isoclinic]], also [[w:William_Kingdon_Clifford|Clifford]] displacements.
The <math>r_1</math> chords of the 16-cell form a Petrie polygon {8/1} which zig-zags back and forth, in the left and right rotational directions, between two completely orthogonal great squares formed by <math>r_2</math> chords.
The <math>r_2</math> chords of the 16-cell form an ''edge polygon'' {8/2}=2{4}. The two completely orthogonal great squares lie parallel and perpendicular to each other. A ''simple'' rotation of the 16-cell in ''one'' of those two square central planes rotates that square like a wheel, while the other square does not move.{{Efn|name=simple rotations}} The four vertices of the rotating square orbit on a great circle in the plane.
The <math>r_3</math> chords of the 16-cell form a circular helix, visible as a blue {8/3} octagram in the orthogonal projection. A ''double'' rotation of the 16-cell, in both of two completely orthogonal invariant <math>r_2</math> square planes at once by equal angles, moves the eight vertices along the circular helix over <math>r_3</math> chords. The vertex motion is a [[w:Geodesic|geodesic]] circle orbit on the 3-sphere of a special kind: it does not lie in a central plane, its [[w:Winding_number|winding number]] is not 1 (it is 3 in this case), its circumference is not <math>2\pi</math> (it is <math>6\pi</math> in this case), and it moves in either a left or right handed circular spiral. We shall refer to such a chiral circle orbit as an ''isocline'', and to the skew polygram of its rotational chords as a ''Clifford polygon''.
The 16-cell is the simplest possible frame in which to [[16-cell#Rotations|observe 4-dimensional rotations]] because its characteristic rotations feature a single pair of invariant rotation planes. In the 16-cell an isoclinic rotation by 90° in any pair of invariant completely orthogonal square central planes takes every great square to its completely orthogonal great square in a twisting displacement, as the invariant planes tilt sideways 90° into each other's plane while rotating 90° internally. All the vertices move at once along the same circular helix geodesic isocline of <math>r_3</math> chords, displaced 90° in 8 orthogonal directions, and the rigid 16-cell assumes a new orientation in 4-space. When the 90° isoclinic rotation is continued in the same rotational direction through an additional 90°, each vertex is again displaced 90°, but from the new orientation in a direction orthogonal to its first 90° displacement. The rotational curve over each 90° <math>r_3</math> chord makes three 45° turns. In 360° of isoclinic rotation over four <math>r_3</math> chords, each vertex makes twelve 45° turns and reaches its antipodal position.
The trajectory of each vertex over each 90° isoclinic rotational displacement is a one-eighth segment of its geodesic orbit. Its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over eight <math>r_3</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane twice, over the four <math>r_2</math> edges of a great square in one of the two moving invariant rotation planes. In the course of a 720° isoclinic revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 16-cell returns to its original orientation.
We shall refer to this isoclinic rotation as the ''great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell'', and note once again that it is Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_3</math> {8/3} star polygon, which constructs <math>1/r_3</math>.
== The 8-cell tesseract ==
The long diameter of the unit-edge [[W:Hypercube|hypercube]] of dimension <math>n</math> is <math>\sqrt{n}</math>, so the unit-edge [[w:Tesseract|4-hypercube, the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract,]] has chords:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math>
Uniquely in its 4-dimensional case, the hypercube's edge length equals its radius, like the hexagon. We call such polytopes ''radially equilateral'', because they can be constructed from equilateral triangles which meet at their center, each contributing two radii and an edge. The [[w:Cuboctahedron|cuboctahedron]] and the 24-cell are also radially equilateral.
[[File:8-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation about a plane in 4-space.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The stationary plane bisects the figure from front-left to back-right and top to bottom.]]
The [[W:Tesseract|tesseract]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 16 vertices, 32 edges, 24 square faces, and 8 cube cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cube.
The 16-point tesseract is the convex hull of a compound of two 8-point 16-cells, in exact dimensional analogy to the way the 8-point cube is the convex hull of a [[W:Stellated octahedron|compound of two 4-point regular tetrahedrons]]. The [[W:Demihypercube|demihypercubes]] occupy alternate vertices of the hypercubes. The diagonals of the square faces of the unit-edge, unit-radius tesseract are the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges of two unit-radius 16-cells, also the edges of the square central planes.
We can rotate the tesseract isoclinically the way we rotated the 16-cell, by 90° in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on both alternate-position 16-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cell. The two skew {8/3} octagram Clifford polygons lie on two disjoint parallel isoclines of the same chirality, of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chords. They form a circular double helix which intersects each vertex of the tesseract once. The double helix is an 8-rung ladder twisted around 3 times, and bent into a circle in the fourth dimension with its ends joined. Each rung is a <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chord.
The tesseract is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 16-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew octagon, but the tesseract is a construct of 4 Petrie octagons with disjoint sets of 8 tesseract edges each. We can construct the tesseract by skewing two planar octagons. Because the tesseract is radially equilateral (unlike the 16-cell), we use two octagons of unit-edge length to build the unit-radius tesseract. To start we embed the planar octagons in 4-space at the same point and make them completely orthogonal. Then we skew each planar octagon into a cube, so we have a compound of two completely orthogonal cubes, provided we skewed them both in the same direction. The 16 vertices will be the vertices of a tesseract with half its 32 edges missing.
Because the tesseract contains two 16-cells in alternate positions it has two sets of 6 orthogonal square central planes. Two angles are required to specify the relationship between two planes in 4-space. Pairs of square central planes within each 16-cell are 90° apart in one angle, and either 0° or 90° apart in the other angle. They are 90° apart in both angles if and only if they are completely orthogonal planes, 90° apart by isoclinic rotation, with no vertices in common and their corresponding pairs of vertices 180° apart. Otherwise they are 0° apart in one of the angles, 90° apart by simple rotation, and they intersect in one axis and lie in a common 3-dimensional hyperplane.{{Efn|A double rotation in which one of the two angles of rotation is 0°, so that one of the completely orthogonal invariant planes does not rotate, is called a simple rotation. Ordinary rotations observed in a 3-dimensional space are simple rotations.|name=simple rotations}}
A pair of square central planes from alternate-position 16-cells are 60° apart by isoclinic rotation, with their corresponding pairs of vertices 120° apart. The planes are not orthogonal or parallel, so they intersect in a line somewhere, but they have no vertices in common, they have no 3-dimensional hyperplane in common, and they cannot reach each other by simple rotation. Such pairs of objects are called [[W:Clifford parallel|Clifford parallel]] because all their corresponding pairs of vertices are the same distance apart, although they are not parallel in the usual sense, because they have a common center. Not only the alternate-position 16-cells' corresponding square central planes, but also the 16-cells themselves, are Clifford parallel objects. More generally, multiple disjoint instances of a 4-polytope which compound to make a larger 4-polytope are Clifford parallel objects.
== The 24-cell ==
[[File:24-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the radially equilateral 24-cell, showing its 3 great circle polygons and its 4 chord lengths.]]
In 2-space we have the radially equilateral 6-point hexagon. In 3-space we have the radially equilateral 12-point cuboctahedron, with 4 hexagonal central planes. In 4-space we have the radially equilateral 24-point 24-cell, with 12 cuboctahedron central hyperplanes and 16 hexagonal central planes.
The [[24-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small>. It has 24 vertices, 96 edges, 96 equilateral triangle faces, and 24 octahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cuboctahedron.
The 24-cell has the same chord set as the 4-hypercube tesseract:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math>
[[Image:24-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 24-point 24-cell <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 24 octahedra is visible.]]
The 24-cell is [[W:Dual polytope|self-dual]], like the regular polygons and regular simplexes. It is the maximal regular construct of triangles and squares (with no pentagons). It is the convex hull of a compound of three disjoint 8-point 16-cells, rotated 60° isoclinically with respect to each other. Each of the three pairs of 16-cells is a tesseract. Each 24-cell edge is also a tesseract edge. The corresponding vertices of two 16-cells or two tesseracts are 120° apart by a <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chord. Each tesseract has 8 cube cells, and each cube has four <math>\sqrt{3}</math> long diameters. The <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords joining the corresponding vertices of two tesseracts belong to the third tesseract as cell long diameters.
The 24-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular dodecagon {12}. The unit-radius planar {12}-gon has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}-1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.518,r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}+1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.932,r_6=\sqrt{4}</math>
Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that:
:<math>r_5-r_3+r_1+r_1-r_3=1/r_5</math>
when <math>r_1=1</math>. In the system of unit-radius coordinates <math>r_1=1/r_5</math>. The procedure rotates counterclockwise over five <math>r_5</math> chords of a {12/5} dodecagram.
The <math>r_1</math> and <math>r_5</math> chords of the planar dodecagon do not occur in the 24-cell, which is a construct of eight skew dodecagons with disjoint sets of twelve <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges each. In the skew dodecagons the chord lengths are:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\sqrt{3},r_6=\sqrt{4}</math>
Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation.
The <math>r_1</math> <small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small> chords form 8 Petrie dodecagons which zig-zag back and forth, in the left and right rotational directions, between two Clifford parallel great hexagons formed by <math>r_2</math> chords. The 8 Petrie dodecagons can be divided four ways into 2 disjoint Petrie dodecagons {24/2}=2{12}.
The <math>r_2</math> <small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small> chords form 16 great hexagons, which can be divided four ways into 4 Clifford parallel great hexagons {24/4}=4{6}.
The <math>r_3</math> <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chords form 18 great squares, which can be divided three ways into 6 Clifford parallel great squares {24/6}=6{4}, including one pair of completely orthogonal great squares from each of the three 16-cells.
The <math>r_4</math> <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords form 32 great triangles, which can be divided four ways into 8 disjoint great triangles {24/8}=8{3} inscribed in 4 Clifford parallel great hexagons.
The <math>r_5</math> <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords form 8 circular helix Clifford polygons, visible as a green {12/5} dodecagram in the orthogonal projection. An isoclinic rotation of the 24-cell in 4 invariant <math>r_2</math> hexagon planes moves the vertices along 2 Clifford parallel circular isoclines {24/2}=2{12/5} over <math>r_5</math> chords.
[[File:dodecagon24cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of half a 24-cell to the [[24-cell#Geodesics|F<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only one Petrie dodecagon {12} of the 24-cell is shown. In a unit-radius 24-cell, all black lines are 24-cell edges of unit length, also tesseract edges. The two disjoint hexagons lie in Clifford parallel central planes. Blue chords are <math>\sqrt{2}</math> 16-cell edges of Clifford parallel great squares, also isocline chords in great square rotations. Green chords are <math>\sqrt{3}</math> distances between corresponding vertices of two 16-cells, also isocline chords in great hexagon rotations. The green {12/5} dodecagram is a Clifford polygon.]]
[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} shows three octagram isoclines of <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math> </small>chords in the 24-cell]]
We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 6 Clifford parallel invariant great square planes containing 16-cell edges, in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on all three 16-cells. In 720° each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cells. The rotational curve over each 90° <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chord makes three 45° turns. Three Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chords form a circular triple helix {24/9}=3{8/3} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. The triple helix is an 8-step circular staircase that twists around 3 times, and is bent into a torus in the fourth dimension. Each staircase step is a great triangle of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords.
[[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} shows 2 dodecagram isoclines of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords in the 24-cell]]We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 4 Clifford parallel invariant great hexagon planes containing 24-cell edges, over <math>r_{5}</math> isocline chords. This is the ''great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell'', also Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_5</math> {12/5} star polygon which constructs <math>1/r_5</math>. A complete 24-cell great circle edge plane revolution requires 720° like a complete 16-cell great circle edge plane revolution, but it is completed in 12 isoclinic displacements of 60° each rather than 8 isoclinic displacements of 90° each. An isoclinic rotation by 60° in an invariant central plane containing a 24-cell edge takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon in a twisting displacement, as 4 invariant great hexagon planes tilt sideways 60° while rotating 60° internally. It also takes every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. All 24 vertices move at once on Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 120° in different directions. The trajectory of each vertex over each 60° rotational displacement is a one-twelfth segment of its geodesic orbit. Its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space over 12 <math>r_5</math> <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane 5 times in a moving invariant rotation plane. The rotational curve over each <math>r_5</math> 120° chord makes five 30° turns. Two Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> form a circular double helix {24/10}=2{12/5} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 24-cell returns to its original orientation.
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |6 distinct 180° chord pairs make 6 distinct isoclinic rotations
|-
! colspan="3" |Short chords
!Invariant planes
! colspan="3" |Long chords
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_1</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_24.svg|100px]]<br>{24/1}={24}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-11.svg|100px]]<br>{24/11}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{11}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|165°
|15°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_2</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/2}=2{12}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_4(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/4}=4{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,5).svg|100px]]<br>{24/10}=2{12/5}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{10}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|150°
|30°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_3</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/3}=3{8}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|100px]]<br>{24/9}=3{8/3}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{9}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|135°
|45°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_4</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_4(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/4}=4{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_12(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/12}=12{2}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_8(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/8}=8{3}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{8}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|120°
|60°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_5</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-5.svg|100px]]<br>{24/5}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-7.svg|100px]]<br>{24/7}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{7}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|105°
|75°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_6</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{6}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|90°
|90°
|}
By examining the chords <math>r_i</math> of the 24-cell's Petrie {12}-gon we have found two distinct isoclinic rotations, the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell and the great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell. If we examine the chords <math>t_i</math> of the 24-cell's {24}-gon we find these, and also four other distinct isoclinic rotations.
Each row of the table describes a distinct isoclinic rotation of the 24-cell characterized by a pair of chords whose arc-lengths sum to 180°. Each chord lies in a central plane which is either a great square or a great hexagon. Each short chord plane is completely orthogonal to a corresponding long chord plane. These central planes are not to be confused with the invariant planes of the rotation, which intersect 0, 2, 4, or 6 vertices of the 24-cell as illustrated in the center column of each row.
The short chord and long chord each have their characteristic {24/''n''}-gon, which correspond as projections of the 24-cell to completely orthogonal planes. Their projection viewpoints look straight down orthogonal cylinders which are actually [[w:SO(4)#Visualization_of_4D_rotations|bent into tori in 4-space]].
Each {24/''n''}-gon forms ''n'' disjoint Clifford parallel regular polygons. Polygons with {2}, {3}, {4} or {6} sides lie in a central plane, and all others lie skew in 4-space. The rotational angle between successive short chords in 4-space and the rotational angle between successive long chords in 4-space sum to 180°. Those angles distinguish distinct chords <math>t_i</math> which are the same length.
Each isoclinic rotation takes two chiral forms. There is a ''right rotation'' and a ''left rotation'' for each row of the table. The right and left rotations are enantiomorphous reflections of each other like a pair of clasped hands, with non-congruent vertex position sequences. The right rotation takes Clifford parallel short chord polygons to each other, while the long chord polygons remain stationary in 4-space as vertices circle over them. In the left rotation the roles of the short chord polygon and the long chord polygon are reversed: the short chord polygons are stationary in 4-space as vertices circle over them, and the rotation takes Clifford parallel long chord polygons to each other.
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== The 600-cell ==
[[Image:600-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 120-point 600-cell <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2011}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 600 tetrahedra is visible. Invisible in this rendering are 25 inscribed instances of the 24-cell (above), which occur in the 600-cell as interior boundary envelopes.]]
The [[600-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small>. It has 120 vertices, 720 edges, 1200 equilateral triangle faces, and 600 tetrahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the icosahedron.
The 600-cell rounds out the 24-cell by adding 96 more vertices (four more disjoint 24-cells) between the 24-cell's existing 24 vertices, in effect adding twenty-four more distinct 24-cells inscribed in the 600-cell. The new surface thus formed is a honeycomb of smaller, more numerous cells: tetrahedra of edge length <math>\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> instead of octahedra of edge length <math>\sqrt{1}</math>. It encloses the <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges of the 24-cells, which become invisible interior chords in the 600-cell, like the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords.
Since the tetrahedra are made of shorter triangle edges than the octahedra (by a factor of <math>\phi^{-1}</math> the inverse golden ratio), the 600-cell is not radially equilateral like the 24-cell and the tesseract. Like them it is radially triangular in a special way, but one in which [[w:Golden_triangle_(mathematics)|golden triangles]] rather than equilateral triangles meet at the center.
In 2-space we have the ''radially golden'' [[W:Decagon#The golden ratio in decagon|regular decagon]]. In 3-space we have the radially golden 30-point [[W:icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]], with 6 decagon central planes. In 4-space we have the radially golden 120-point 600-cell, with 60 icosidodecahedron central hyperplanes and 72 decagon central planes.
The 600-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular [[w:Triacontagon|triacontagon {30}]]. The unit-radius planar {30}-gon has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.209</math>
:<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.416</math>
:<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.813</math>
:<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math>
:<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.338</math>
:<math>r_8=2 \cos (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.486</math>
:<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math>
:<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{11}=2 \cos (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.827</math>
:<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{13}=2 \cos (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.956</math>
:<math>r_{14}=2 \cos (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.989</math>
:<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math>
Only the chord lengths <math>r_3</math>, <math>r_5</math>, <math>r_6</math>, <math>\sqrt{2}</math>, <math>r_9</math>, <math>r_{10}</math>, <math>r_{12}</math>, <math>r_{15}</math> occur in the 600-cell, which is a construct of 24 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>r_3</math>, six of which intersect in each icosahedral vertex figure. In the skew {30}-gons the chord lengths are:
[[File:600-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the 600-cell, showing its 5 regular great circle polygons and its 8 chord lengths with angles of arc. The golden ratio governs the fractional roots of every other chord, and the radial golden triangles which meet at the center.|400x400px]]
:<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math>
:<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math>
:<math>r_8=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math>
:<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math>
:<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{11}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{13}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{14}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math>
Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation.
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |15 chords (4 distinct 180° pairs) make 4 distinct section polyhedra
|-
! colspan="3" |Short chords
! Section
! colspan="3" |Long chords
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_0</math>
|0°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2}
|180°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{15}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0}}
|{{radic|4}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0
|2
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|180°
|0°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_1</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14}=2{15/7}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{14}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|168°
|12°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_2</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{13}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|156°
|24°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_3</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V1 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{12}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|144°
|36°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_4</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{11}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|132°
|48°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_5</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V2 dodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Dodecahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{10}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|120°
|60°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{6}</math>
|72°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V3 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3}
|108°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{9}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|1.382~}}
|{{radic|2.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|1.176~
|1.618~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|108°
|72°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{7}</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V4 icosidodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosidodecahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{8}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|96°
|84°
|}
The list of 600-cell chords <math>r_{i}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 8 rows with a pair of 180° complements in each row. The short chord and long chord each have their characteristic {30/n}-gon. Each row identifies a distinct isoclinic rotation of the 600-cell.
Each distinct pair of complementary chord lengths is identified with a distinct [[w:600-cell#Polyhedral sections|polyhedral section of the 600-cell]] beginning with a vertex. In spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]], every vertex is the center of a set of 7 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>\phi^{-1}</math> is a icosahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>\sqrt{2}</math> is an [[W:Icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]] central section bisecting the 600-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>\sqrt{2}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal icosahedron vertex figure at distance <math>\sqrt{2+\phi}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 7 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section).
[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>]]
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on 15 disjoint 16-cells. Each 90° displacement takes 15 pairs of completely orthogonal invariant great square planes to each other. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. The rotational curve over each 90° chord makes three 45° turns. Fifteen Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> form a circular fibration of 15 twisted parallel strands 5{24/9}=15{8/3} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great square planes, which has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. This ''great square rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' takes place over <math>r_7</math> edge chords and <math>r_8</math> isocline chords. The {30/7} edge polygon is a skew helix of circumference <math>14\pi</math> with each <math>r_7</math> edge belonging to a distinct great square. The four {30/7} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. Each 90° displacement takes every 16-cell to another 16-cell. The vertices of the invariant great squares each make seven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/7} edge makes seven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/7} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The {30/8}=2{15/4} Clifford polygon is a compound of two skew {15/4} pentadecagrams of circumference <math>16\pi</math> with each <math>r_8</math> isocline chord belonging to a distinct 16-cell. The four {30/8} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/8} isocline chord makes eight 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/8} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
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[[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> ]]
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell, over <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords, with the same effect on 5 disjoint 24-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions of its 24-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. Ten Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> form a circular fibration of ten twisted parallel strands 5{24/10}=10{12/5} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great hexagon planes, over <math>r_{4}=\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>r_{11}=\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords This ''great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. Its {30/11} Clifford polygon is a skew helix where each <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord is the <math>\sqrt{3}</math> diagonal of a great hexagon of a distinct 24-cell. The vertices of the invariant great hexagons of this rotation each make eleven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord makes eleven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/11} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>22\pi</math> over <math>r_{11}</math> chords form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in 12 Clifford parallel invariant decagon central planes containing its 36° <math>r_{3}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{12}</math> isocline chords. This ''great pentagon rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' has period 5 and takes disjoint 24-cells to each other. The rotational curve over each <math>r_{12}</math> chord of its {5/2} Clifford polygon makes twelve 12° turns. 24 Clifford parallel {5/2} pentagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>4\pi</math> over five <math>r_{12}</math> chords form a circular fibration of 24 twisted parallel strands 4{30/12}=24{5/2} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The rotation of the 600-cell by 36° in any invariant decagon central plane takes every great decagon to a Clifford parallel great decagon in a twisting displacement, as all the central planes tilt sideways 36° while rotating 36° internally. It also takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon, and every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. The 24-cells revolve within the 600-cell, as the 16-cells revolve within the 24-cells. All 120 vertices move at once on four Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 144° in different directions.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great decagon planes containing its 36° <math>r_{2}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chords. This rotation has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. The rotational curve over each 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chord makes thirteen 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/13} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>26\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
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== Finally the 120-cell ==
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |30 chords (15 180° pairs) make 15 distinct section polyhedra
|-
! colspan="3" |Short chords
! Section
! colspan="3" |Long chords
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_0</math>
|0°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2}
|180°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{30}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0}}
|{{radic|4}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0
|2
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|180°
|0°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_1</math>
|15.5~°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14}
|164.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{29}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0.073~}}
|{{radic|3.927~}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0.270~
|1.982~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|168°
|12°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_2</math>
|25.2~°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13}
|154.8~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{28}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.191~}}
|{{radic|3.809~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.437~
|1.952~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|156°
|24°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_3</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{27}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|144°
|36°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_4</math>
|41.4~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|138.6~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{26}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.5}}
|{{radic|3.5}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.707~
|1.871~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|138°
|42°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_5</math>
|44.5~°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11}
|135.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{25}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0.573~}}
|{{radic|3.427~}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0.757~
|1.851~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|132°
|48°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_6</math>
|49.1~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|130.9~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{24}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.691~}}
|{{radic|3.309~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.831~
|1.819~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|128°
|52°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_7</math>
|56°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|124°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{23}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.882~}}
|{{radic|3.118~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.939~
|1.766~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|124°
|56°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_8</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{22}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|120°
|60°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_9</math>
|66.1~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|113.9~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{21}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1.191~}}
|{{radic|2.809~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1.091~
|1.676~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|116°
|64°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{10}</math>
|69.8~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|110.2~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{20}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1.309~}}
|{{radic|2.691~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1.144~
|1.640~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|112°
|68°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{11}</math>
|72°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3}
|108°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{19}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|1.382~}}
|{{radic|2.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|1.176~
|1.618~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|108°
|72°
|- style="background: palegreen; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{12}</math>
|75.5~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4}
|104.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{18}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1.5}}
|{{radic|2.5}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1.224~
|1.581~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|96°
|84°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{13}</math>
|81.1~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|98.9~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{17}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1.691~}}
|{{radic|2.309~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1.300~
|1.520~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|°
|°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{14}</math>
|84.5~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|95.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{16}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.809~}}
|{{radic|2.191~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1.345~
|1.480~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|°
|°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{15}</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{15}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|90°
|90°
|}
The [[120-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 600 vertices, 1200 edges, 720 pentagon faces, and 120 dodecahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the dodecahedron.
The [[User:Dc.samizdat/Golden chords of the 120-cell#Thirty distinguished distances|list of thirty 120-cell chords]] <math>c_{t}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 16 rows and 2 columns with a pair of 180° complements in each row. This table first appears in [[w:Regular_Polytopes_(book)|''Regular Polytopes'']] (1947),{{Sfn|Coxeter|1973|loc=Table V(v): Simplified sections of {5,3,3} beginning with a vertex|pp=300-301}} where Coxeter identified each row with a distinct [[w:120-cell#Concentric_hulls|polyhedral section of the 120-cell]] beginning with a vertex. He showed that in spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] every vertex is the center of a set of 29 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>c_1</math> is a tetrahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>c_{15}</math> is a central section bisecting the 120-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>c_{15}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal tetrahedron vertex figure at distance <math>c_{29}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 29 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section). Each section also lies completely orthogonal to a congruent section.
Only 8 of the 30 chords in the table occur in the 600-cell. The 120-cell's additional chords arise originally from the regular 5-cell 4-simplex, in its interaction with the other regular 4-polytopes that compound to make the 120-cell. Since all those polytopes except the 5-cell occur in the 600-cell, and the 600-cell and the 120-cell have the same symmetry group, the 5-cell's symmetry group is the entirety of what's new in the 120-cell.
The 120-cell is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 600-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew triacontagon {30}, but the 120-cell is a construct of 40 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>c_1</math>, two of which intersect in each tetrahedral vertex figure.
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== Conclusions ==
Fontaine and Hurley's discovery is more than a geometric formula for the reciprocal of a regular ''n''-polygon diagonal. It also yields the discrete sequence of isocline chords of the characteristic isoclinic rotation of a ''d''-dimensional polytope. The characteristic rotational chord sequence of the ''d''-polytope can be represented geometrically in two dimensions on a distinct star polygon, but it lies on a geodesic circle through ''d''-dimensional space. Fontaine and Hurley discovered the geodesic topology of polytopes generally. Their procedure will reveal the geodesics of arbitrary non-uniform polytopes, since it can be applied to a polytope of any dimensionality and irregularity, by first fitting the polytope to the smallest regular polygon whose chords include its chords. [If what is meant by this is its Petrie polygon, it is not quite necessary or possible with respect to the planar polygon chords, e.g. the planar Petrie polygon of the 600-cell does not contain the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chord. But perhaps it would work if the fit is to the smallest regular skew polygon in the ''d''-space.]
The discovery of a chordal construction for discrete isoclinic rotations generally closes the circuit on Kappraff and Adamson's discovery of a rotational connection between dynamical systems, Steinbach's golden fields, and Coxeter's Euclidean geometry of reflections in ''n'' dimensions. Application of the Fontaine and Hurley procedure to the 120-cell demonstrates why the connection exists: because polytope sequences generally, from Steinbach's golden chord sequences in polygons, to sequences of star polygons in isoclinic rotations, to subsumption relations in the sequence of regular 4-polytopes, arise as expressions of the reflections and rotations of distinct Coxeter symmetry groups, when those various groups interact.
== Appendix: Sequence of regular 4-polytopes ==
{{Regular convex 4-polytopes|wiki=W:|columns=7}}
== Notes ==
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== Citations ==
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== References ==
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* {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=1997 | title=Golden fields: A case for the Heptagon | journal=Mathematics Magazine | volume=70 | issue=Feb 1997 | pages=22–31 | doi=10.1080/0025570X.1997.11996494 | jstor=2691048 | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|1997}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=2000 | title=Sections Beyond Golden| journal=Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music and Science | issue=2000 | pages=35-44 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2000/bridges2000-35.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|2000}}}}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Jablan | first2=Slavik | last3=Adamson | first3=Gary | last4=Sazdanovich | first4=Radmila | year=2004 | title=Golden Fields, Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, and Chaotic Matrices | journal=Forma | volume=19 | pages=367-387 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2005/bridges2005-369.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff, Jablan, Adamson & Sazdanovich|2004}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Adamson | first2=Gary | year=2004 | title=Polygons and Chaos | journal=Dynamical Systems and Geometric Theories | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2001/bridges2001-67.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff & Adamson|2004}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Fontaine | first1=Anne | last2=Hurley | first2=Susan | year=2006 | title=Proof by Picture: Products and Reciprocals of Diagonal Length Ratios in the Regular Polygon | journal=Forum Geometricorum | volume=6 | pages=97-101 | url=https://scispace.com/pdf/proof-by-picture-products-and-reciprocals-of-diagonal-length-1aian8mgp9.pdf }}
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= Golden chords of the 120-cell =
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<blockquote>Steinbach discovered the formula for the ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. Fontaine and Hurley extended this result, discovering a formula for the reciprocal of a regular polygon chord derived geometrically from the chord's star polygon. We observe that these findings in plane geometry apply more generally, to polytopes of any dimensionality. Fontaine and Hurley's geometric procedure for finding the reciprocals of the chords of a regular polygon from their star polygons also finds the rotational geodesics of any polytope of any dimensionality.</blockquote>
== Introduction ==
Steinbach discovered the Diagonal Product Formula and the Golden Fields family of ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. He showed how this family extends beyond the pentagon {5} with its well-known golden bisection proportional to 𝜙, finding that the heptagon {7} has an analogous trisection, the nonagon {9} has an analogous quadrasection, and the hendecagon {11} has an analogous pentasection, an extended family of golden proportions with quasiperiodic properties.
Kappraff and Adamson extended these findings in plane geometry to a theory of Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, showing that the Golden Fields not only do not end with the hendecagon, they form an infinite number of periodic trajectories when operated on by the Mandelbrot operator. They found a relation between the edges of star polygons and dynamical systems in the state of chaos, revealing a connection between chaos theory, number, and rotations in Coxeter Euclidean geometry.
Fontaine and Hurley examined Steinbach's finding that the length of each chord of a regular polygon is both the product of two chords and the sum of a set of smaller chords, so that in rotations to add is to multiply. They illustrated Steinbach's sets of additive chords lying parallel to each other in the plane (pointing in the same direction), and by applying Steinbach's formula more generally they found another summation relation of signed parallel chords (pointing in opposite directions) which relates each chord length to its reciprocal, and relates the summation to a distinct star polygon rotation.
We examine these remarkable findings (which stem from study of the chords of humble regular polygons) in higher-dimensional spaces, specifically in the chords, polygons and rotations of the [[120-cell]], the largest four-dimensional regular convex polytope.
== Visualizing the 120-cell ==
{| class="wikitable floatright" width="400"
|style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:120-cell.gif|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point 120-cell <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small> performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]].{{Sfn|Hise|2011|loc=File:120-cell.gif|ps=; "Created by Jason Hise with Maya and Macromedia Fireworks. A 3D projection of a 120-cell performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]]."}} In this simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges are shown; its 29 interior chords are not rendered. Therefore even though it is translucent, only its outer surface is visible. The complex interior parts of the 120-cell, all its inscribed 5-cells, 16-cells, 8-cells, 24-cells, 600-cells and its much larger inventory of polyhedra, are completely invisible in this view, as none of their edges are rendered at all.
|style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:Ortho solid 016-uniform polychoron p33-t0.png|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point [[W:Great grand stellated 120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] <small><math>\{\tfrac{5}{2},3,3\}</math></small>.{{Sfn|Ruen: Great grand stellated 120-cell|2007}} The 120-cell is its convex hull. The projection to the left renders only the 120-cell's shortest chord, its 1200 edges. The projection above also renders only one of the 120-cell's 30 chords, the edges of its 120 inscribed regular 5-cells. The 120-cell itself (the convex hull) is invisible in this view, as its edges are not rendered.
|}
[[120-cell#Geometry|The 120-cell is the maximally complex regular 4-polytope]], containing inscribed instances of every regular 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-polytope, except the regular polygons of more than {15} sides.
The 120-cell is the convex hull of a regular [[120-cell#Relationships among interior polytopes|compound of each of the 6 regular convex 4-polytopes]]. They are the [[5-cell|5-point (5-cell) 4-simplex]], the [[16-cell|8-point (16-cell) 4-orthoplex]], the [[W:Tesseract|16-point (8-cell) tesseract]], the [[24-cell|24-point (24-cell)]], the [[600-cell|120-point (600-cell)]], and the [[120-cell|600-point (120-cell)]]. The 120-cell is the convex hull of a compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells, of 75 disjoint 16-cells, of 25 disjoint 24-cells, and of 5 disjoint 600-cells.
The 120-cell contains an even larger inventory of irregular polytopes, created by the intersection of multiple instances of these component regular 4-polytopes. Many are quite unexpected, because they do not occur as components of any regular polytope smaller than the 120-cell. As just one example among the [[120-cell#Concentric hulls|sections of the 120-cell]], there is an irregular 24-point polyhedron with 16 triangle faces and 4 nonagon {9} faces.{{Sfn|Moxness|}}
Most renderings of the 120-cell, like the rotating projection here, only illustrate its outer surface, which is a honeycomb of face-bonded dodecahedral cells. Only the objects in its 3-dimensional surface are rendered, namely the 120 dodecahedra, their pentagon faces, and their edges. Although the 120-cell has chords of 30 distinct lengths, in this kind of simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges (its shortest chord) are shown. Its 29 interior chords, the edges of objects in the interior of the 120-cell, are not rendered, so interior objects are not visible at all.
Visualizing the complete interior of the 600-vertex 120-cell in a single image is impractical because of its complexity. Only four 120-cell edges are incident at each vertex, but [[120-cell#Chords|600 chords (of all 30 lengths)]] are incident at ''each'' vertex.
== Compounds in the 120-cell ==
The 8-point (16-cell), not the 5-point (5-cell) 4-simplex, is the smallest building block; it compounds to every larger regular 4-polytope. The 5-point (5-cell) does compound to the 600-point (120-cell), but it does not fit into any smaller regular 4-polytope.
The 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 2 in the 16-point (8-cell), and by 3 in the 24-point (24-cell). The 16-point (8-cell) compounds in the 24-point (24-cell) by 3 non-disjoint instances of itself, with each of the 24 vertices shared by two 16-point (8-cells). The 24-point (24-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell), and the 120-point (600-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell).
The 24-point (24-cell) also compounds by 5<sup>2</sup> non-disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell); it compounds in 5 disjoint instances of itself, 10 (not 5) different ways. Whichever set of 5 disjoint 24-point (24-cells) are assembled, the resulting 120-point (600-cell) contains 25 distinct 24-point (24-cells), not just 5 (or 10). Consequently 15 disjoint 8-point (16-cells) will construct a 120-point (600-cell), which contains 75 distinct 8-point (16-cells).
The 600-point (120-cell) is 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), just 2 different ways (not 5 or 10 ways), so it is 10 distinct 120-point (600-cells). Consequently the 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 3 times 5<sup>2</sup> (75) disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell), which contains 3<sup>2</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (225) distinct instances of the 24-point (24-cell), and 3<sup>3</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (675) distinct instances of the 8-point (16-cell).
These facts were discovered painstakingly by various researchers, and no one has found a general rule governing subsumption relations among regular polytopes. The reasons for some of their numeric incidence relations are far from obvious. [[W:Pieter Hendrik Schoute|Schoute]] was the first to see that the 120-point (600-cell) is a compound of 5 24-point (24-cells) ''10 different ways'', and after he saw it a hundred years lapsed until Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne proved his result, and showed why.{{Sfn|Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne|2020|loc=''The geometry of H4 polytopes''}}
So much for the compounds of 16-cells. The 120-cell is also the convex hull of the compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells. That stellated compound (without its convex hull of 120-cell edges) is the [[w:Great_grand_stellated_120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] illustrated above, the final regular [[W:Stellation|stellation]] of the 120-cell, and the only [[W:Schläfli-Hess polychoron|regular star 4-polytope]] to have the 120-cell for its convex hull. The edges of the great grand stellated 120-cell are <math>\phi^6</math> as long as those of its 120-cell [[W:List of polyhedral stellations#Stellation process|stellation core]] deep inside.
The compound of 120 disjoint 5-point (5-cells) can be seen to be equivalent to the compound of 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), as follows. Beginning with a single 120-point (600-cell), expand each vertex into a regular 5-cell, by adding 4 new equidistant vertices, such that the 5 vertices form a regular 5-cell inscribed in the 3-sphere. The 120 5-cells are disjoint, and the 600 vertices form 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells): a 120-cell.
== Thirty distinguished distances ==
The 30 numbers listed in the table are all-important in Euclidean geometry. A case can be made on symmetry grounds that their squares are the 30 most important numbers between 0 and 4. The 30 rows of the table are the 30 distinct [[120-cell#Geodesic rectangles|chord lengths of the unit-radius 120-cell]], the largest regular convex 4-polytope. Since the 120-cell subsumes all smaller regular polytopes, its 30 chords are the complete chord set of all the regular polytopes that can be constructed in the first four dimensions of Euclidean space, except for regular polygons of more than 15 sides.
{| class="wikitable" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
!rowspan=2|<math>c_t</math>
!rowspan=2|arc
!rowspan=2|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{n}\right\}</math></small>
!rowspan=2|<math>\left\{p\right\}</math>
!rowspan=2|<small><math>m\left\{\frac{k}{d}\right\}</math></small>
!rowspan=2|Steinbach roots
!colspan=7|Chord lengths of the unit 120-cell
|-
!colspan=5|unit-radius length <math>c_t</math>
!colspan=2|unit-edge length <math>c_t/c_1</math><br>in 120-cell of radius <math>c_8=\sqrt{2}\phi^2</math>
|-
|<small><math>c_{1,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>15.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>c_{4,1}-c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.270091</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi ^2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^4}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.072949}</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1.</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>25.2{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>2 \left\{15\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(c_{18,1}-c_{4,1}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{3-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.437016</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.190983}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi </math></small>
|<small><math>1.61803</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{3,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>36{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{10\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>3 \left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right) c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>0.618034</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.381966}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>2.28825</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>41.4{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.707107</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.61803</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{5,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>44.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{4}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>2 \left\{\frac{15}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.756934</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}}{\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.572949}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>2.80252</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{6,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>49.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{17}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.831254</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5}}{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.690983}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>3.07768</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{7,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>56.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.93913</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.881966}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>3.47709</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>60{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1.</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>3.70246</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{9,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>66.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{2 \phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.09132</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.19098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>4.04057</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{10,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>69.8{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2 \sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.14412</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\phi }{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^2}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>4.23607</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{11,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>72{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{6}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.17557</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.38197}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \sqrt{3-\phi } \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.3525</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{12,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>75.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{24}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.22474</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.53457</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{13,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>81.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.30038</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.69098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.8146</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{14,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>84.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{9}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi } c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{1+\sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.345</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi }}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5} \phi }{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>4.9798</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{15,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>90.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.41421</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>5.23607</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{16,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>95.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{29}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.4802</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.19098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>5.48037</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{17,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>98.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{31}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.51954</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(7+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>5.62605</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{18,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>104.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{8}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{4}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.58114</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{5} \sqrt{\phi ^4}</math></small>
|<small><math>5.8541</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{19,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>108.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{9}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>c_{3,1}+c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>1.61803</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi </math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1+\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.61803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>5.9907</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{20,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>110.2{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.64042</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.69098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\phi ^2}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.07359</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{21,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>113.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{19}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.67601</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\chi }{\phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.20537</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{22,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>120{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{10}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.73205</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{6} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>6.41285</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{23,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>124.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{41}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }+\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.7658</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.11803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.53779</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{24,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>130.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.81907</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\sqrt{5}}{\phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.73503</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{25,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>135.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.85123</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\phi ^2}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^4}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.42705}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^4</math></small>
|<small><math>6.8541</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{26,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>138.6{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{12}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.87083</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{7} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>6.92667</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{27,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>144{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{12}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{5}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.90211</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\phi +2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2+\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.61803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{2 \phi +4}</math></small>
|<small><math>7.0425</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{28,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>154.8{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.95167</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>7.22598</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{29,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>164.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{14}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi c_{12,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>1.98168</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3 \phi ^2}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.92705}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>7.33708</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{30,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>180{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{15}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.</math></small>
|<small><math>2</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4.}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 \sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>7.40492</math></small>
|-
|rowspan=4 colspan=6|
|rowspan=4 colspan=4|
<small><math>\phi</math></small> is the golden ratio:<br>
<small><math>\phi ^2-\phi -1=0</math></small><br>
<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }+1=\phi</math></small>, and: <small><math>\phi+1=\phi^2</math></small><br>
<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }::1::\phi ::\phi ^2</math></small><br>
<small><math>1/\phi</math></small> and <small><math>\phi</math></small> are the golden sections of <small><math>\sqrt{5}</math></small>:<br>
<small><math>\phi +\frac{1}{\phi }=\sqrt{5}</math></small>
|colspan=2|<small><math>\phi = (\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>1.618034</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\chi = (3\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>3.854102</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = (3\sqrt{5} - 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.854102</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = 11/\chi = 22/(3\sqrt{5} + 1)</math></small>
|<small><math>2.854102</math></small>
|}
== The 16-cell 4-orthoplex ==
In 2-space we have the regular 8-point octagon, in 3-space the regular 8-point cube, and in 4-space the regular 8-point [[16-cell]].
A planar octagon with rigid edges of unit length has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1,r_2=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_3=\sqrt{2}+1 \approx 2.414,r_4=\sqrt{4 + \sqrt{8}} \approx 2.613</math>
The chord ratio <math>r_3=\sqrt{2}+1</math> is a geometrical proportion, the [[W:Silver ratio|silver ratio]]. Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that:
:<math>r_3-r_1-r_1=1/r_3 \approx 0.414</math>
Note that <math>r_3-2=1/r_3=\sqrt{2}-1</math>. Their procedure rotates counterclockwise over three <math>r_3</math> chords of an {8/3} octagram. Over the first <math>r_3</math> chord the displacement is <math>\sqrt{2}+1</math>. Over the second <math>r_3</math> chord it moves in the opposite direction a distance of <math>-1</math> . Over the third <math>r_3</math> chord it also moves a distance of <math>-1</math>. Fontaine and Hurley also demonstrated the significance of <math>1/r_i</math> in Steinbach's Diagonal Product Formula, which says that every chord length is the sum of certain smaller chord lengths. The smaller chords are certain diagonals of the same regular polygon of a smaller edge length, specifically edge length <math>1/r_i</math> rather than <math>1</math>.
If we embed the planar octagon in 3-space, we can make it skew, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from three others instead of two others, at the vertices of a unit-edge cube with chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1, r_2=\sqrt{2}, r_3=\sqrt{3}, r_4=\sqrt{2}</math>
If we embed this cube in 4-space, we can skew it some more, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from six others instead of three others, at the vertices of a unit-edge 4-polytope with chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1,r_2=1,r_3=1,r_4=\sqrt{2}</math>
All of its chords except its long diameters are the same unit length as its edge. In fact they are its 24 edges, and it is a 16-cell of radius <math>1/\sqrt{2}</math>.
[[File:octagon16cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of a regular 16-cell to the [[16-cell#Projections|B<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only its edges are shown; its long diameter chords are not drawn. All 24 edges are the same length and none lie parallel to the projection plane. The octagon circumference is a Petrie polygon. The two disjoint squares lie in completely orthogonal central planes. The blue octagram is a Clifford polygon. ]]
The [[16-cell]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small>. It has 8 vertices, 24 edges, 32 equilateral triangle faces, and 16 regular tetrahedron cells. It is the [[16-cell#Octahedral dipyramid|four-dimensional analogue of the octahedron]], and each of its four orthogonal central hyperplanes is an octahedron.
The only planar regular polygons found in the 16-cell are face triangles and central plane squares, but the 16-cell also contains a skew regular octagon, its [[W:Petrie polygon|Petrie polygon]].{{Efn|name=Petrie polygon of a honeycomb}} The chords of this regular octagon, which lies skew in 4-space, are those given above for the 16-cell, as opposed to those for the cube or the regular octagon in the plane. The 16-cell is a construct of 3 Petrie octagons which share the same 8 vertices but have disjoint sets of 8 edges each.
The regular octad has higher symmetry in 4-space than it does in 2-space. The 16-cell is the 4-[[w:Cross-polytope|orthoplex]], the simplest regular 4-polytope after the [[5-cell|4-simplex]]. All the larger regular convex 4-polytopes are compounds of the 16-cell. The regular octagon exhibits this high symmetry only when embedded in 4-space at the vertices of the 16-cell.
The 16-cell constitutes an [[W:Orthonormal basis|orthonormal basis]] for the choice of a 4-dimensional Cartesian reference frame, because its vertices define four orthogonal axes. The eight vertices of a unit-radius 16-cell are (±1, 0, 0, 0), (0, ±1, 0, 0), (0, 0, ±1, 0), (0, 0, 0, ±1). All vertices are connected by <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges except opposite pairs.
The vertex coordinates of the 16-cell form 6 central squares lying in 6 pairwise [[W:Orthogonal|orthogonal]] coordinate planes. Great squares in opposite planes that do not share an axis (e.g. in the ''xy'' and ''wz'' planes) are completely disjoint (they do not intersect at any vertices). These planes are [[W:Completely orthogonal|completely orthogonal]].{{Efn|name=Six orthogonal planes of the Cartesian basis}}
Since the unit-radius coordinate system is convenient, let us derive the unit-radius 16-cell by skewing a unit-radius planar octagon, which has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{2-\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.765,r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_4=2</math>
We will need a planar octagon with rigid <math>r_2</math> chords, rather than one with rigid <math>r_1</math> edges. The octagon's <math>r_2</math> chords form two disjoint great squares, visible in the orthogonal projection, which we can reposition in 3-space to form a cube by making them parallel, and in 4-space to form a 16-cell by making them completely orthogonal.
Each chord is a distinct 4-vector with a length and a direction. Since the edges of the 16-cell are all the same length <math>r_1=\sqrt{2},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2}</math>, those chords are distinct only in the context of a rotation, where vertices circle over the chords of an <math>r_i</math> polygon. The rotational curve over each <math>r_i</math> chord makes <math>i</math> 45° turns. The angle between two <math>r_i</math> chords is <math>180^\circ - i \times 45^\circ</math>.
[[File:16-cell-orig.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 8-point 16-cell <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small> performing a double rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}}]]
[[W:Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space|Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space]] can be seen as the composition of two 2-dimensional rotations in completely orthogonal planes. The general rotation in 4-space is a [[W:SO(4)#Double rotations|double rotation]] in pairs of completely orthogonal planes. Two completely orthogonal planes are called invariant planes of the rotation when all points in the plane rotate on circles that remain in the plane, even as the whole plane tilts sideways (like a coin flipping) into another plane. The two completely orthogonal rotations of each plane (like a wheel, and like a coin flipping) are simultaneous but independent, in that they are not geometrically constrained to turn at the same rate. However, the most circular kind of rotation (as opposed to an elliptical double rotation of a rigid spherical object) occurs when the completely orthogonal planes do rotate through the same angle in the same time interval. Such equi-angled double rotations are called [[w:SO(4)#Isoclinic_rotations|isoclinic]], also [[w:William_Kingdon_Clifford|Clifford]] displacements.
The <math>r_1</math> chords of the 16-cell form a Petrie polygon {8/1} which zig-zags back and forth, in the left and right rotational directions, between two completely orthogonal great squares formed by <math>r_2</math> chords.
The <math>r_2</math> chords of the 16-cell form an ''edge polygon'' {8/2}=2{4}. The two completely orthogonal great squares lie parallel and perpendicular to each other. A ''simple'' rotation of the 16-cell in ''one'' of those two square central planes rotates that square like a wheel, while the other square does not move.{{Efn|name=simple rotations}} The four vertices of the rotating square orbit on a great circle in the plane.
The <math>r_3</math> chords of the 16-cell form a circular helix, visible as a blue {8/3} octagram in the orthogonal projection. A ''double'' rotation of the 16-cell, in both of two completely orthogonal invariant <math>r_2</math> square planes at once by equal angles, moves the eight vertices along the circular helix over <math>r_3</math> chords. The vertex motion is a [[w:Geodesic|geodesic]] circle orbit on the 3-sphere of a special kind: it does not lie in a central plane, its [[w:Winding_number|winding number]] is not 1 (it is 3 in this case), its circumference is not <math>2\pi</math> (it is <math>6\pi</math> in this case), and it moves in either a left or right handed circular spiral. We shall refer to such a chiral circle orbit as an ''isocline'', and to the skew polygram of its rotational chords as a ''Clifford polygon''.
The 16-cell is the simplest possible frame in which to [[16-cell#Rotations|observe 4-dimensional rotations]] because its characteristic rotations feature a single pair of invariant rotation planes. In the 16-cell an isoclinic rotation by 90° in any pair of invariant completely orthogonal square central planes takes every great square to its completely orthogonal great square in a twisting displacement, as the invariant planes tilt sideways 90° into each other's plane while rotating 90° internally. All the vertices move at once along the same circular helix geodesic isocline of <math>r_3</math> chords, displaced 90° in 8 orthogonal directions, and the rigid 16-cell assumes a new orientation in 4-space. When the 90° isoclinic rotation is continued in the same rotational direction through an additional 90°, each vertex is again displaced 90°, but from the new orientation in a direction orthogonal to its first 90° displacement. The rotational curve over each 90° <math>r_3</math> chord makes three 45° turns. In 360° of isoclinic rotation over four <math>r_3</math> chords, each vertex makes twelve 45° turns and reaches its antipodal position.
The trajectory of each vertex over each 90° isoclinic rotational displacement is a one-eighth segment of its geodesic orbit. Its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over eight <math>r_3</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane twice, over the four <math>r_2</math> edges of a great square in one of the two moving invariant rotation planes. In the course of a 720° isoclinic revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 16-cell returns to its original orientation.
We shall refer to this isoclinic rotation as the ''great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell'', and note once again that it is Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_3</math> {8/3} star polygon, which constructs <math>1/r_3</math>.
== The 8-cell tesseract ==
The long diameter of the unit-edge [[W:Hypercube|hypercube]] of dimension <math>n</math> is <math>\sqrt{n}</math>, so the unit-edge [[w:Tesseract|4-hypercube, the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract,]] has chords:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math>
Uniquely in its 4-dimensional case, the hypercube's edge length equals its radius, like the hexagon. We call such polytopes ''radially equilateral'', because they can be constructed from equilateral triangles which meet at their center, each contributing two radii and an edge. The [[w:Cuboctahedron|cuboctahedron]] and the 24-cell are also radially equilateral.
[[File:8-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation about a plane in 4-space.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The stationary plane bisects the figure from front-left to back-right and top to bottom.]]
The [[W:Tesseract|tesseract]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 16 vertices, 32 edges, 24 square faces, and 8 cube cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cube.
The 16-point tesseract is the convex hull of a compound of two 8-point 16-cells, in exact dimensional analogy to the way the 8-point cube is the convex hull of a [[W:Stellated octahedron|compound of two 4-point regular tetrahedrons]]. The [[W:Demihypercube|demihypercubes]] occupy alternate vertices of the hypercubes. The diagonals of the square faces of the unit-edge, unit-radius tesseract are the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges of two unit-radius 16-cells, also the edges of the square central planes.
We can rotate the tesseract isoclinically the way we rotated the 16-cell, by 90° in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on both alternate-position 16-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cell. The two skew {8/3} octagram Clifford polygons lie on two disjoint parallel isoclines of the same chirality, of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chords. They form a circular double helix which intersects each vertex of the tesseract once. The double helix is an 8-rung ladder twisted around 3 times, and bent into a circle in the fourth dimension with its ends joined. Each rung is a <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chord.
The tesseract is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 16-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew octagon, but the tesseract is a construct of 4 Petrie octagons with disjoint sets of 8 tesseract edges each. We can construct the tesseract by skewing two planar octagons. Because the tesseract is radially equilateral (unlike the 16-cell), we use two octagons of unit-edge length to build the unit-radius tesseract. To start we embed the planar octagons in 4-space at the same point and make them completely orthogonal. Then we skew each planar octagon into a cube, so we have a compound of two completely orthogonal cubes, provided we skewed them both in the same direction. The 16 vertices will be the vertices of a tesseract with half its 32 edges missing.
Because the tesseract contains two 16-cells in alternate positions it has two sets of 6 orthogonal square central planes. Two angles are required to specify the relationship between two planes in 4-space. Pairs of square central planes within each 16-cell are 90° apart in one angle, and either 0° or 90° apart in the other angle. They are 90° apart in both angles if and only if they are completely orthogonal planes, 90° apart by isoclinic rotation, with no vertices in common and their corresponding pairs of vertices 180° apart. Otherwise they are 0° apart in one of the angles, 90° apart by simple rotation, and they intersect in one axis and lie in a common 3-dimensional hyperplane.{{Efn|A double rotation in which one of the two angles of rotation is 0°, so that one of the completely orthogonal invariant planes does not rotate, is called a simple rotation. Ordinary rotations observed in a 3-dimensional space are simple rotations.|name=simple rotations}}
A pair of square central planes from alternate-position 16-cells are 60° apart by isoclinic rotation, with their corresponding pairs of vertices 120° apart. The planes are not orthogonal or parallel, so they intersect in a line somewhere, but they have no vertices in common, they have no 3-dimensional hyperplane in common, and they cannot reach each other by simple rotation. Such pairs of objects are called [[W:Clifford parallel|Clifford parallel]] because all their corresponding pairs of vertices are the same distance apart, although they are not parallel in the usual sense, because they have a common center. Not only the alternate-position 16-cells' corresponding square central planes, but also the 16-cells themselves, are Clifford parallel objects. More generally, multiple disjoint instances of a 4-polytope which compound to make a larger 4-polytope are Clifford parallel objects.
== The 24-cell ==
[[File:24-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the radially equilateral 24-cell, showing its 3 great circle polygons and its 4 chord lengths.]]
In 2-space we have the radially equilateral 6-point hexagon. In 3-space we have the radially equilateral 12-point cuboctahedron, with 4 hexagon central planes. In 4-space we have the radially equilateral 24-point 24-cell, with 12 cuboctahedron central hyperplanes and 16 hexagon central planes.
The [[24-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small>. It has 24 vertices, 96 edges, 96 equilateral triangle faces, and 24 octahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cuboctahedron.
The 24-cell has the same chord set as the 4-hypercube tesseract:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math>
[[Image:24-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 24-point 24-cell <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 24 octahedra is visible.]]
The 24-cell is [[W:Dual polytope|self-dual]], like the regular polygons and regular simplexes. It is the maximal regular construct of triangles and squares (with no pentagons). It is the convex hull of a compound of three disjoint 8-point 16-cells, rotated 60° isoclinically with respect to each other. Each of the three pairs of 16-cells is a tesseract. Each 24-cell edge is also a tesseract edge. The corresponding vertices of two 16-cells or two tesseracts are 120° apart by a <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chord. Each tesseract has 8 cube cells, and each cube has four <math>\sqrt{3}</math> long diameters. The <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords joining the corresponding vertices of two tesseracts belong to the third tesseract as cell long diameters.
The 24-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular dodecagon {12}. The unit-radius planar {12}-gon has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}-1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.518,r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}+1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.932,r_6=\sqrt{4}</math>
Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that:
:<math>r_5-r_3+r_1+r_1-r_3=1/r_5</math>
when <math>r_1=1</math>. In the system of unit-radius coordinates <math>r_1=1/r_5</math>. The procedure rotates counterclockwise over five <math>r_5</math> chords of a {12/5} dodecagram.
The <math>r_1</math> and <math>r_5</math> chords of the planar dodecagon do not occur in the 24-cell, which is a construct of eight skew dodecagons with disjoint sets of twelve <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges each. In the skew dodecagons the chord lengths are:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\sqrt{3},r_6=\sqrt{4}</math>
Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation.
The <math>r_1</math> <small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small> chords form 8 Petrie dodecagons which zig-zag back and forth, in the left and right rotational directions, between two Clifford parallel great hexagons formed by <math>r_2</math> chords. The 8 Petrie dodecagons can be divided four ways into 2 disjoint Petrie dodecagons {24/2}=2{12}.
The <math>r_2</math> <small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small> chords form 16 great hexagons, which can be divided four ways into 4 Clifford parallel great hexagons {24/4}=4{6}.
The <math>r_3</math> <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chords form 18 great squares, which can be divided three ways into 6 Clifford parallel great squares {24/6}=6{4}, including one pair of completely orthogonal great squares from each of the three 16-cells.
The <math>r_4</math> <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords form 32 great triangles, which can be divided four ways into 8 disjoint great triangles {24/8}=8{3} inscribed in 4 Clifford parallel great hexagons.
The <math>r_5</math> <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords form 8 circular helix Clifford polygons, visible as a green {12/5} dodecagram in the orthogonal projection. An isoclinic rotation of the 24-cell in 4 invariant <math>r_2</math> hexagon planes moves the vertices along 2 Clifford parallel circular isoclines {24/2}=2{12/5} over <math>r_5</math> chords.
[[File:dodecagon24cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of half a 24-cell to the [[24-cell#Geodesics|F<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only one Petrie dodecagon {12} of the 24-cell is shown. In a unit-radius 24-cell, all black lines are 24-cell edges of unit length, also tesseract edges. The two disjoint hexagons lie in Clifford parallel central planes. Blue chords are <math>\sqrt{2}</math> 16-cell edges of Clifford parallel great squares, also isocline chords in great square rotations. Green chords are <math>\sqrt{3}</math> distances between corresponding vertices of two 16-cells, also isocline chords in great hexagon rotations. The green {12/5} dodecagram is a Clifford polygon.]]
[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} shows three octagram isoclines of <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math> </small>chords in the 24-cell]]
We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 6 Clifford parallel invariant great square planes containing 16-cell edges, in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on all three 16-cells. In 720° each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cells. The rotational curve over each 90° <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chord makes three 45° turns. Three Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chords form a circular triple helix {24/9}=3{8/3} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. The triple helix is an 8-step circular staircase that twists around 3 times, and is bent into a torus in the fourth dimension. Each staircase step is a great triangle of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords.
[[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} shows 2 dodecagram isoclines of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords in the 24-cell]]We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 4 Clifford parallel invariant great hexagon planes containing 24-cell edges, over <math>r_{5}</math> isocline chords. This is the ''great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell'', also Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_5</math> {12/5} star polygon which constructs <math>1/r_5</math>. A complete 24-cell great circle edge plane revolution requires 720° like a complete 16-cell great circle edge plane revolution, but it is completed in 12 isoclinic displacements of 60° each rather than 8 isoclinic displacements of 90° each. An isoclinic rotation by 60° in an invariant central plane containing a 24-cell edge takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon in a twisting displacement, as 4 invariant great hexagon planes tilt sideways 60° while rotating 60° internally. It also takes every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. All 24 vertices move at once on Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 120° in different directions. The trajectory of each vertex over each 60° rotational displacement is a one-twelfth segment of its geodesic orbit. Its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space over 12 <math>r_5</math> <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane 5 times in a moving invariant rotation plane. The rotational curve over each <math>r_5</math> 120° chord makes five 30° turns. Two Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> form a circular double helix {24/10}=2{12/5} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 24-cell returns to its original orientation.
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |6 distinct 180° chord pairs make 6 distinct isoclinic rotations
|-
! colspan="3" |Short chords
!Invariant planes
! colspan="3" |Long chords
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_1</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_24.svg|100px]]<br>{24/1}={24}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-11.svg|100px]]<br>{24/11}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{11}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|165°
|15°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_2</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/2}=2{12}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_4(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/4}=4{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,5).svg|100px]]<br>{24/10}=2{12/5}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{10}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|150°
|30°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_3</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/3}=3{8}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|100px]]<br>{24/9}=3{8/3}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{9}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|135°
|45°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_4</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_4(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/4}=4{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_12(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/12}=12{2}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_8(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/8}=8{3}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{8}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|120°
|60°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_5</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-5.svg|100px]]<br>{24/5}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-7.svg|100px]]<br>{24/7}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{7}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|105°
|75°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_6</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{6}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|90°
|90°
|}
By examining the chords <math>r_i</math> of the 24-cell's Petrie {12}-gon we have found two distinct isoclinic rotations, the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell and the great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell. If we examine the chords <math>t_i</math> of the 24-cell's {24}-gon we find these, and also four other distinct isoclinic rotations.
Each row of the table describes a distinct isoclinic rotation of the 24-cell characterized by a pair of chords whose arc-lengths sum to 180°. Each chord lies in a central plane which is either a great square or a great hexagon. Each short chord plane is completely orthogonal to a corresponding long chord plane. These central planes are not to be confused with the invariant planes of the rotation, which intersect 0, 2, 4, or 6 vertices of the 24-cell as illustrated in the center column of each row.
The short chord and long chord each have their characteristic {24/''n''}-gon, which correspond as projections of the 24-cell to completely orthogonal planes. Their projection viewpoints look straight down orthogonal cylinders which are actually [[w:SO(4)#Visualization_of_4D_rotations|bent into tori in 4-space]].
Each {24/''n''}-gon forms ''n'' disjoint Clifford parallel regular polygons. Polygons with {2}, {3}, {4} or {6} sides lie in a central plane, and all others lie skew in 4-space. The rotational angle between successive short chords in 4-space and the rotational angle between successive long chords in 4-space sum to 180°. Those angles distinguish distinct chords <math>t_i</math> which are the same length.
Each isoclinic rotation takes two chiral forms. There is a ''right rotation'' and a ''left rotation'' for each row of the table. The right and left rotations are enantiomorphous reflections of each other like a pair of clasped hands, with non-congruent vertex position sequences. The right rotation takes Clifford parallel short chord polygons to each other, while the long chord polygons remain stationary in 4-space as vertices circle over them. In the left rotation the roles of the short chord polygon and the long chord polygon are reversed: the short chord polygons are stationary in 4-space as vertices circle over them, and the rotation takes Clifford parallel long chord polygons to each other.
{{Clear}}
== The 600-cell ==
[[Image:600-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 120-point 600-cell <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2011}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 600 tetrahedra is visible. Invisible in this rendering are 25 inscribed instances of the 24-cell (above), which occur in the 600-cell as interior boundary envelopes.]]
The [[600-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small>. It has 120 vertices, 720 edges, 1200 equilateral triangle faces, and 600 tetrahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the icosahedron.
The 600-cell rounds out the 24-cell by adding 96 more vertices (four more disjoint 24-cells) between the 24-cell's existing 24 vertices, in effect adding twenty-four more distinct 24-cells inscribed in the 600-cell. The new surface thus formed is a honeycomb of smaller, more numerous cells: tetrahedra of edge length <math>\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> instead of octahedra of edge length <math>\sqrt{1}</math>. It encloses the <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges of the 24-cells, which become invisible interior chords in the 600-cell, like the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords.
Since the tetrahedra are made of shorter triangle edges than the octahedra (by a factor of <math>\phi^{-1}</math> the inverse golden ratio), the 600-cell is not radially equilateral like the 24-cell and the tesseract. Like them it is radially triangular in a special way, but one in which [[w:Golden_triangle_(mathematics)|golden triangles]] rather than equilateral triangles meet at the center.
In 2-space we have the ''radially golden'' [[W:Decagon#The golden ratio in decagon|regular decagon]]. In 3-space we have the radially golden 30-point [[W:icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]], with 6 decagon central planes. In 4-space we have the radially golden 120-point 600-cell, with 60 icosidodecahedron central hyperplanes and 72 decagon central planes.
The 600-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular [[w:Triacontagon|triacontagon {30}]]. The unit-radius planar {30}-gon has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.209</math>
:<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.416</math>
:<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.813</math>
:<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math>
:<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.338</math>
:<math>r_8=2 \cos (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.486</math>
:<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math>
:<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{11}=2 \cos (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.827</math>
:<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{13}=2 \cos (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.956</math>
:<math>r_{14}=2 \cos (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.989</math>
:<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math>
Only the chord lengths <math>r_3</math>, <math>r_5</math>, <math>r_6</math>, <math>\sqrt{2}</math>, <math>r_9</math>, <math>r_{10}</math>, <math>r_{12}</math>, <math>r_{15}</math> occur in the 600-cell, which is a construct of 24 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>r_3</math>, six of which intersect in each icosahedral vertex figure. In the skew {30}-gons the chord lengths are:
[[File:600-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the 600-cell, showing its 5 regular great circle polygons and its 8 chord lengths with angles of arc. The golden ratio governs the fractional roots of every other chord, and the radial golden triangles which meet at the center.|400x400px]]
:<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math>
:<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math>
:<math>r_8=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math>
:<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math>
:<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{11}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{13}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{14}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math>
Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation.
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |15 chords (4 distinct 180° pairs) make 4 distinct section polyhedra
|-
! colspan="3" |Short chords
! Section
! colspan="3" |Long chords
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_0</math>
|0°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2}
|180°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{15}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0}}
|{{radic|4}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0
|2
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|180°
|0°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_1</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14}=2{15/7}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{14}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|168°
|12°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_2</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{13}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|156°
|24°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_3</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V1 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{12}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|144°
|36°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_4</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{11}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|132°
|48°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_5</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V2 dodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Dodecahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{10}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|120°
|60°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{6}</math>
|72°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V3 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3}
|108°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{9}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|1.382~}}
|{{radic|2.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|1.176~
|1.618~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|108°
|72°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{7}</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V4 icosidodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosidodecahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{8}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|96°
|84°
|}
The list of 600-cell chords <math>r_{i}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 8 rows with a pair of 180° complements in each row. The short chord and long chord each have their characteristic {30/n}-gon. Each row identifies a distinct isoclinic rotation of the 600-cell.
Each distinct pair of complementary chord lengths is identified with a distinct [[w:600-cell#Polyhedral sections|polyhedral section of the 600-cell]] beginning with a vertex. In spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]], every vertex is the center of a set of 7 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>\phi^{-1}</math> is a icosahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>\sqrt{2}</math> is an [[W:Icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]] central section bisecting the 600-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>\sqrt{2}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal icosahedron vertex figure at distance <math>\sqrt{2+\phi}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 7 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section).
[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>]]
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on 15 disjoint 16-cells. Each 90° displacement takes 15 pairs of completely orthogonal invariant great square planes to each other. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. The rotational curve over each 90° chord makes three 45° turns. Fifteen Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> form a circular fibration of 15 twisted parallel strands 5{24/9}=15{8/3} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great square planes, which has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. This ''great square rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' takes place over <math>r_7</math> edge chords and <math>r_8</math> isocline chords. The {30/7} edge polygon is a skew helix of circumference <math>14\pi</math> with each <math>r_7</math> edge belonging to a distinct great square. The four {30/7} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. Each 90° displacement takes every 16-cell to another 16-cell. The vertices of the invariant great squares each make seven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/7} edge makes seven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/7} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The {30/8}=2{15/4} Clifford polygon is a compound of two skew {15/4} pentadecagrams of circumference <math>16\pi</math> with each <math>r_8</math> isocline chord belonging to a distinct 16-cell. The four {30/8} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/8} isocline chord makes eight 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/8} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
{{Clear}}
[[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> ]]
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell, over <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords, with the same effect on 5 disjoint 24-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions of its 24-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. Ten Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> form a circular fibration of ten twisted parallel strands 5{24/10}=10{12/5} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great hexagon planes, over <math>r_{4}=\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>r_{11}=\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords This ''great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. Its {30/11} Clifford polygon is a skew helix where each <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord is the <math>\sqrt{3}</math> diagonal of a great hexagon of a distinct 24-cell. The vertices of the invariant great hexagons of this rotation each make eleven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord makes eleven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/11} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>22\pi</math> over <math>r_{11}</math> chords form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in 12 Clifford parallel invariant decagon central planes containing its 36° <math>r_{3}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{12}</math> isocline chords. This ''great pentagon rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' has period 5 and takes disjoint 24-cells to each other. The rotational curve over each <math>r_{12}</math> chord of its {5/2} Clifford polygon makes twelve 12° turns. 24 Clifford parallel {5/2} pentagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>4\pi</math> over five <math>r_{12}</math> chords form a circular fibration of 24 twisted parallel strands 4{30/12}=24{5/2} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The rotation of the 600-cell by 36° in any invariant decagon central plane takes every great decagon to a Clifford parallel great decagon in a twisting displacement, as all the central planes tilt sideways 36° while rotating 36° internally. It also takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon, and every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. The 24-cells revolve within the 600-cell, as the 16-cells revolve within the 24-cells. All 120 vertices move at once on four Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 144° in different directions.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great decagon planes containing its 36° <math>r_{2}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chords. This rotation has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. The rotational curve over each 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chord makes thirteen 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/13} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>26\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
{{Clear}}
== Finally the 120-cell ==
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |30 chords (15 180° pairs) make 15 distinct section polyhedra
|-
! colspan="3" |Short chords
! Section
! colspan="3" |Long chords
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_0</math>
|0°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2}
|180°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{30}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0}}
|{{radic|4}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0
|2
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|180°
|0°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_1</math>
|15.5~°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14}
|164.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{29}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0.073~}}
|{{radic|3.927~}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0.270~
|1.982~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|168°
|12°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_2</math>
|25.2~°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13}
|154.8~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{28}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.191~}}
|{{radic|3.809~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.437~
|1.952~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|156°
|24°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_3</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10}
| rowspan="4" |
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|{{radic|0.382~}}
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|1.902~
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|138.6~°
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|0.707~
|1.871~
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|138°
|42°
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| rowspan="4" |<math>c_5</math>
|44.5~°
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|135.5~°
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|{{radic|0.573~}}
|{{radic|3.427~}}
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|0.757~
|1.851~
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|132°
|48°
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|128°
|52°
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|124°
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|{{radic|3.118~}}
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|1.766~
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|124°
|56°
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| rowspan="4" |<math>c_8</math>
|60°
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| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3}
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|{{radic|3}}
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|1.732~
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|60°
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| rowspan="4" |<math>c_9</math>
|66.1~°
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|113.9~°
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|{{radic|1.191~}}
|{{radic|2.809~}}
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|1.091~
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|116°
|64°
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| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{10}</math>
|69.8~°
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|110.2~°
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|{{radic|1.309~}}
|{{radic|2.691~}}
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|1.144~
|1.640~
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|112°
|68°
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| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{11}</math>
|72°
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| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3}
|108°
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|{{radic|1.382~}}
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|1.176~
|1.618~
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|108°
|72°
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| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{12}</math>
|75.5~°
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| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4}
|104.5~°
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|{{radic|1.5}}
|{{radic|2.5}}
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|1.224~
|1.581~
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|96°
|84°
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| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{13}</math>
|81.1~°
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| rowspan="4" |
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|98.9~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{17}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1.691~}}
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|1.300~
|1.520~
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|°
|°
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| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{14}</math>
|84.5~°
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| rowspan="4" |
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|95.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{16}</math>
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|{{radic|0.809~}}
|{{radic|2.191~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1.345~
|1.480~
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|°
|°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{15}</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{15}</math>
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|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
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|1.414~
|1.414~
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|90°
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The [[120-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 600 vertices, 1200 edges, 720 pentagon faces, and 120 dodecahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the dodecahedron.
The [[User:Dc.samizdat/Golden chords of the 120-cell#Thirty distinguished distances|list of thirty 120-cell chords]] <math>c_{t}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 16 rows and 2 columns with a pair of 180° complements in each row. This table first appears in [[w:Regular_Polytopes_(book)|''Regular Polytopes'']] (1947),{{Sfn|Coxeter|1973|loc=Table V(v): Simplified sections of {5,3,3} beginning with a vertex|pp=300-301}} where Coxeter identified each row with a distinct [[w:120-cell#Concentric_hulls|polyhedral section of the 120-cell]] beginning with a vertex. He showed that in spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] every vertex is the center of a set of 29 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>c_1</math> is a tetrahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>c_{15}</math> is a central section bisecting the 120-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>c_{15}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal tetrahedron vertex figure at distance <math>c_{29}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 29 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section). Each section also lies completely orthogonal to a congruent section.
Only 8 of the 30 chords in the table occur in the 600-cell. The 120-cell's additional chords arise originally from the regular 5-cell 4-simplex, in its interaction with the other regular 4-polytopes that compound to make the 120-cell. Since all those polytopes except the 5-cell occur in the 600-cell, and the 600-cell and the 120-cell have the same symmetry group, the 5-cell's symmetry group is the entirety of what's new in the 120-cell.
The 120-cell is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 600-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew triacontagon {30}, but the 120-cell is a construct of 40 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>c_1</math>, two of which intersect in each tetrahedral vertex figure.
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== Conclusions ==
Fontaine and Hurley's discovery is more than a geometric formula for the reciprocal of a regular ''n''-polygon diagonal. It also yields the discrete sequence of isocline chords of the characteristic isoclinic rotation of a ''d''-dimensional polytope. The characteristic rotational chord sequence of the ''d''-polytope can be represented geometrically in two dimensions on a distinct star polygon, but it lies on a geodesic circle through ''d''-dimensional space. Fontaine and Hurley discovered the geodesic topology of polytopes generally. Their procedure will reveal the geodesics of arbitrary non-uniform polytopes, since it can be applied to a polytope of any dimensionality and irregularity, by first fitting the polytope to the smallest regular polygon whose chords include its chords. [If what is meant by this is its Petrie polygon, it is not quite necessary or possible with respect to the planar polygon chords, e.g. the planar Petrie polygon of the 600-cell does not contain the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chord. But perhaps it would work if the fit is to the smallest regular skew polygon in the ''d''-space.]
The discovery of a chordal construction for discrete isoclinic rotations generally closes the circuit on Kappraff and Adamson's discovery of a rotational connection between dynamical systems, Steinbach's golden fields, and Coxeter's Euclidean geometry of reflections in ''n'' dimensions. Application of the Fontaine and Hurley procedure to the 120-cell demonstrates why the connection exists: because polytope sequences generally, from Steinbach's golden chord sequences in polygons, to sequences of star polygons in isoclinic rotations, to subsumption relations in the sequence of regular 4-polytopes, arise as expressions of the reflections and rotations of distinct Coxeter symmetry groups, when those various groups interact.
== Appendix: Sequence of regular 4-polytopes ==
{{Regular convex 4-polytopes|wiki=W:|columns=7}}
== Notes ==
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== Citations ==
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== References ==
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* {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=1997 | title=Golden fields: A case for the Heptagon | journal=Mathematics Magazine | volume=70 | issue=Feb 1997 | pages=22–31 | doi=10.1080/0025570X.1997.11996494 | jstor=2691048 | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|1997}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=2000 | title=Sections Beyond Golden| journal=Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music and Science | issue=2000 | pages=35-44 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2000/bridges2000-35.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|2000}}}}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Jablan | first2=Slavik | last3=Adamson | first3=Gary | last4=Sazdanovich | first4=Radmila | year=2004 | title=Golden Fields, Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, and Chaotic Matrices | journal=Forma | volume=19 | pages=367-387 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2005/bridges2005-369.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff, Jablan, Adamson & Sazdanovich|2004}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Adamson | first2=Gary | year=2004 | title=Polygons and Chaos | journal=Dynamical Systems and Geometric Theories | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2001/bridges2001-67.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff & Adamson|2004}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Fontaine | first1=Anne | last2=Hurley | first2=Susan | year=2006 | title=Proof by Picture: Products and Reciprocals of Diagonal Length Ratios in the Regular Polygon | journal=Forum Geometricorum | volume=6 | pages=97-101 | url=https://scispace.com/pdf/proof-by-picture-products-and-reciprocals-of-diagonal-length-1aian8mgp9.pdf }}
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= Golden chords of the 120-cell =
{{align|center|David Brooks Christie}}
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{{align|center|January 2026 - June 2026}}
<blockquote>Steinbach discovered the formula for the ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. Fontaine and Hurley extended this result, discovering a formula for the reciprocal of a regular polygon chord derived geometrically from the chord's star polygon. We observe that these findings in plane geometry apply more generally, to polytopes of any dimensionality. Fontaine and Hurley's geometric procedure for finding the reciprocals of the chords of a regular polygon from their star polygons also finds the rotational geodesics of any polytope of any dimensionality.</blockquote>
== Introduction ==
Steinbach discovered the Diagonal Product Formula and the Golden Fields family of ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. He showed how this family extends beyond the pentagon {5} with its well-known golden bisection proportional to 𝜙, finding that the heptagon {7} has an analogous trisection, the nonagon {9} has an analogous quadrasection, and the hendecagon {11} has an analogous pentasection, an extended family of golden proportions with quasiperiodic properties.
Kappraff and Adamson extended these findings in plane geometry to a theory of Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, showing that the Golden Fields not only do not end with the hendecagon, they form an infinite number of periodic trajectories when operated on by the Mandelbrot operator. They found a relation between the edges of star polygons and dynamical systems in the state of chaos, revealing a connection between chaos theory, number, and rotations in Coxeter Euclidean geometry.
Fontaine and Hurley examined Steinbach's finding that the length of each chord of a regular polygon is both the product of two chords and the sum of a set of smaller chords, so that in rotations to add is to multiply. They illustrated Steinbach's sets of additive chords lying parallel to each other in the plane (pointing in the same direction), and by applying Steinbach's formula more generally they found another summation relation of signed parallel chords (pointing in opposite directions) which relates each chord length to its reciprocal, and relates the summation to a distinct star polygon rotation.
We examine these remarkable findings (which stem from study of the chords of humble regular polygons) in higher-dimensional spaces, specifically in the chords, polygons and rotations of the [[120-cell]], the largest four-dimensional regular convex polytope.
== Visualizing the 120-cell ==
{| class="wikitable floatright" width="400"
|style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:120-cell.gif|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point 120-cell <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small> performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]].{{Sfn|Hise|2011|loc=File:120-cell.gif|ps=; "Created by Jason Hise with Maya and Macromedia Fireworks. A 3D projection of a 120-cell performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]]."}} In this simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges are shown; its 29 interior chords are not rendered. Therefore even though it is translucent, only its outer surface is visible. The complex interior parts of the 120-cell, all its inscribed 5-cells, 16-cells, 8-cells, 24-cells, 600-cells and its much larger inventory of polyhedra, are completely invisible in this view, as none of their edges are rendered at all.
|style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:Ortho solid 016-uniform polychoron p33-t0.png|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point [[W:Great grand stellated 120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] <small><math>\{\tfrac{5}{2},3,3\}</math></small>.{{Sfn|Ruen: Great grand stellated 120-cell|2007}} The 120-cell is its convex hull. The projection to the left renders only the 120-cell's shortest chord, its 1200 edges. The projection above also renders only one of the 120-cell's 30 chords, the edges of its 120 inscribed regular 5-cells. The 120-cell itself (the convex hull) is invisible in this view, as its edges are not rendered.
|}
[[120-cell#Geometry|The 120-cell is the maximally complex regular 4-polytope]], containing inscribed instances of every regular 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-polytope, except the regular polygons of more than {15} sides.
The 120-cell is the convex hull of a regular [[120-cell#Relationships among interior polytopes|compound of each of the 6 regular convex 4-polytopes]]. They are the [[5-cell|5-point (5-cell) 4-simplex]], the [[16-cell|8-point (16-cell) 4-orthoplex]], the [[W:Tesseract|16-point (8-cell) tesseract]], the [[24-cell|24-point (24-cell)]], the [[600-cell|120-point (600-cell)]], and the [[120-cell|600-point (120-cell)]]. The 120-cell is the convex hull of a compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells, of 75 disjoint 16-cells, of 25 disjoint 24-cells, and of 5 disjoint 600-cells.
The 120-cell contains an even larger inventory of irregular polytopes, created by the intersection of multiple instances of these component regular 4-polytopes. Many are quite unexpected, because they do not occur as components of any regular polytope smaller than the 120-cell. As just one example among the [[120-cell#Concentric hulls|sections of the 120-cell]], there is an irregular 24-point polyhedron with 16 triangle faces and 4 nonagon {9} faces.{{Sfn|Moxness|}}
Most renderings of the 120-cell, like the rotating projection here, only illustrate its outer surface, which is a honeycomb of face-bonded dodecahedral cells. Only the objects in its 3-dimensional surface are rendered, namely the 120 dodecahedra, their pentagon faces, and their edges. Although the 120-cell has chords of 30 distinct lengths, in this kind of simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges (its shortest chord) are shown. Its 29 interior chords, the edges of objects in the interior of the 120-cell, are not rendered, so interior objects are not visible at all.
Visualizing the complete interior of the 600-vertex 120-cell in a single image is impractical because of its complexity. Only four 120-cell edges are incident at each vertex, but [[120-cell#Chords|600 chords (of all 30 lengths)]] are incident at ''each'' vertex.
== Compounds in the 120-cell ==
The 8-point (16-cell), not the 5-point (5-cell) 4-simplex, is the smallest building block; it compounds to every larger regular 4-polytope. The 5-point (5-cell) does compound to the 600-point (120-cell), but it does not fit into any smaller regular 4-polytope.
The 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 2 in the 16-point (8-cell), and by 3 in the 24-point (24-cell). The 16-point (8-cell) compounds in the 24-point (24-cell) by 3 non-disjoint instances of itself, with each of the 24 vertices shared by two 16-point (8-cells). The 24-point (24-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell), and the 120-point (600-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell).
The 24-point (24-cell) also compounds by 5<sup>2</sup> non-disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell); it compounds in 5 disjoint instances of itself, 10 (not 5) different ways. Whichever set of 5 disjoint 24-point (24-cells) are assembled, the resulting 120-point (600-cell) contains 25 distinct 24-point (24-cells), not just 5 (or 10). Consequently 15 disjoint 8-point (16-cells) will construct a 120-point (600-cell), which contains 75 distinct 8-point (16-cells).
The 600-point (120-cell) is 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), just 2 different ways (not 5 or 10 ways), so it is 10 distinct 120-point (600-cells). Consequently the 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 3 times 5<sup>2</sup> (75) disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell), which contains 3<sup>2</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (225) distinct instances of the 24-point (24-cell), and 3<sup>3</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (675) distinct instances of the 8-point (16-cell).
These facts were discovered painstakingly by various researchers, and no one has found a general rule governing subsumption relations among regular polytopes. The reasons for some of their numeric incidence relations are far from obvious. [[W:Pieter Hendrik Schoute|Schoute]] was the first to see that the 120-point (600-cell) is a compound of 5 24-point (24-cells) ''10 different ways'', and after he saw it a hundred years lapsed until Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne proved his result, and showed why.{{Sfn|Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne|2020|loc=''The geometry of H4 polytopes''}}
So much for the compounds of 16-cells. The 120-cell is also the convex hull of the compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells. That stellated compound (without its convex hull of 120-cell edges) is the [[w:Great_grand_stellated_120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] illustrated above, the final regular [[W:Stellation|stellation]] of the 120-cell, and the only [[W:Schläfli-Hess polychoron|regular star 4-polytope]] to have the 120-cell for its convex hull. The edges of the great grand stellated 120-cell are <math>\phi^6</math> as long as those of its 120-cell [[W:List of polyhedral stellations#Stellation process|stellation core]] deep inside.
The compound of 120 disjoint 5-point (5-cells) can be seen to be equivalent to the compound of 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), as follows. Beginning with a single 120-point (600-cell), expand each vertex into a regular 5-cell, by adding 4 new equidistant vertices, such that the 5 vertices form a regular 5-cell inscribed in the 3-sphere. The 120 5-cells are disjoint, and the 600 vertices form 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells): a 120-cell.
== Thirty distinguished distances ==
The 30 numbers listed in the table are all-important in Euclidean geometry. A case can be made on symmetry grounds that their squares are the 30 most important numbers between 0 and 4. The 30 rows of the table are the 30 distinct [[120-cell#Geodesic rectangles|chord lengths of the unit-radius 120-cell]], the largest regular convex 4-polytope. Since the 120-cell subsumes all smaller regular polytopes, its 30 chords are the complete chord set of all the regular polytopes that can be constructed in the first four dimensions of Euclidean space, except for regular polygons of more than 15 sides.
{| class="wikitable" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
!rowspan=2|<math>c_t</math>
!rowspan=2|arc
!rowspan=2|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{n}\right\}</math></small>
!rowspan=2|<math>\left\{p\right\}</math>
!rowspan=2|<small><math>m\left\{\frac{k}{d}\right\}</math></small>
!rowspan=2|Steinbach roots
!colspan=7|Chord lengths of the unit 120-cell
|-
!colspan=5|unit-radius length <math>c_t</math>
!colspan=2|unit-edge length <math>c_t/c_1</math><br>in 120-cell of radius <math>c_8=\sqrt{2}\phi^2</math>
|-
|<small><math>c_{1,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>15.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>c_{4,1}-c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.270091</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi ^2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^4}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.072949}</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1.</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>25.2{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>2 \left\{15\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(c_{18,1}-c_{4,1}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{3-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.437016</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.190983}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi </math></small>
|<small><math>1.61803</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{3,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>36{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{10\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>3 \left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right) c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>0.618034</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.381966}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>2.28825</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>41.4{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.707107</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.61803</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{5,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>44.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{4}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>2 \left\{\frac{15}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.756934</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}}{\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.572949}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>2.80252</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{6,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>49.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{17}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.831254</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5}}{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.690983}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>3.07768</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{7,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>56.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.93913</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.881966}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>3.47709</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>60{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1.</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>3.70246</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{9,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>66.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{2 \phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.09132</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.19098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>4.04057</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{10,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>69.8{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2 \sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.14412</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\phi }{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^2}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>4.23607</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{11,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>72{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{6}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.17557</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.38197}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \sqrt{3-\phi } \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.3525</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{12,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>75.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{24}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.22474</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.53457</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{13,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>81.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.30038</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.69098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.8146</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{14,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>84.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{9}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi } c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{1+\sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.345</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi }}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5} \phi }{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>4.9798</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{15,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>90.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.41421</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>5.23607</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{16,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>95.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{29}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.4802</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.19098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>5.48037</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{17,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>98.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{31}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.51954</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(7+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>5.62605</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{18,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>104.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{8}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{4}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.58114</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{5} \sqrt{\phi ^4}</math></small>
|<small><math>5.8541</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{19,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>108.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{9}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>c_{3,1}+c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>1.61803</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi </math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1+\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.61803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>5.9907</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{20,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>110.2{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.64042</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.69098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\phi ^2}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.07359</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{21,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>113.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{19}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.67601</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\chi }{\phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.20537</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{22,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>120{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{10}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.73205</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{6} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>6.41285</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{23,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>124.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{41}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }+\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.7658</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.11803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.53779</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{24,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>130.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.81907</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\sqrt{5}}{\phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.73503</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{25,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>135.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.85123</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\phi ^2}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^4}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.42705}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^4</math></small>
|<small><math>6.8541</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{26,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>138.6{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{12}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.87083</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{7} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>6.92667</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{27,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>144{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{12}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{5}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.90211</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\phi +2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2+\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.61803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{2 \phi +4}</math></small>
|<small><math>7.0425</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{28,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>154.8{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.95167</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>7.22598</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{29,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>164.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{14}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi c_{12,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>1.98168</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3 \phi ^2}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.92705}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>7.33708</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{30,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>180{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{15}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.</math></small>
|<small><math>2</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4.}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 \sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>7.40492</math></small>
|-
|rowspan=4 colspan=6|
|rowspan=4 colspan=4|
<small><math>\phi</math></small> is the golden ratio:<br>
<small><math>\phi ^2-\phi -1=0</math></small><br>
<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }+1=\phi</math></small>, and: <small><math>\phi+1=\phi^2</math></small><br>
<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }::1::\phi ::\phi ^2</math></small><br>
<small><math>1/\phi</math></small> and <small><math>\phi</math></small> are the golden sections of <small><math>\sqrt{5}</math></small>:<br>
<small><math>\phi +\frac{1}{\phi }=\sqrt{5}</math></small>
|colspan=2|<small><math>\phi = (\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>1.618034</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\chi = (3\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>3.854102</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = (3\sqrt{5} - 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.854102</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = 11/\chi = 22/(3\sqrt{5} + 1)</math></small>
|<small><math>2.854102</math></small>
|}
== The 16-cell 4-orthoplex ==
In 2-space we have the regular 8-point octagon, in 3-space the regular 8-point cube, and in 4-space the regular 8-point [[16-cell]].
A planar octagon with rigid edges of unit length has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1,r_2=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_3=\sqrt{2}+1 \approx 2.414,r_4=\sqrt{4 + \sqrt{8}} \approx 2.613</math>
The chord ratio <math>r_3=\sqrt{2}+1</math> is a geometrical proportion, the [[W:Silver ratio|silver ratio]]. Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that:
:<math>r_3-r_1-r_1=1/r_3 \approx 0.414</math>
Note that <math>r_3-2=1/r_3=\sqrt{2}-1</math>. Their procedure rotates counterclockwise over three <math>r_3</math> chords of an {8/3} octagram. Over the first <math>r_3</math> chord the displacement is <math>\sqrt{2}+1</math>. Over the second <math>r_3</math> chord it moves in the opposite direction a distance of <math>-1</math> . Over the third <math>r_3</math> chord it also moves a distance of <math>-1</math>. Fontaine and Hurley also demonstrated the significance of <math>1/r_i</math> in Steinbach's Diagonal Product Formula, which says that every chord length is the sum of certain smaller chord lengths. The smaller chords are certain diagonals of the same regular polygon of a smaller edge length, specifically edge length <math>1/r_i</math> rather than <math>1</math>.
If we embed the planar octagon in 3-space, we can make it skew, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from three others instead of two others, at the vertices of a unit-edge cube with chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1, r_2=\sqrt{2}, r_3=\sqrt{3}, r_4=\sqrt{2}</math>
If we embed this cube in 4-space, we can skew it some more, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from six others instead of three others, at the vertices of a unit-edge 4-polytope with chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1,r_2=1,r_3=1,r_4=\sqrt{2}</math>
All of its chords except its long diameters are the same unit length as its edge. In fact they are its 24 edges, and it is a 16-cell of radius <math>1/\sqrt{2}</math>.
[[File:octagon16cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of a regular 16-cell to the [[16-cell#Projections|B<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only its edges are shown; its long diameter chords are not drawn. All 24 edges are the same length and none lie parallel to the projection plane. The octagon circumference is a Petrie polygon. The two disjoint squares lie in completely orthogonal central planes. The blue octagram is a Clifford polygon. ]]
The [[16-cell]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small>. It has 8 vertices, 24 edges, 32 equilateral triangle faces, and 16 regular tetrahedron cells. It is the [[16-cell#Octahedral dipyramid|four-dimensional analogue of the octahedron]], and each of its four orthogonal central hyperplanes is an octahedron.
The only planar regular polygons found in the 16-cell are face triangles and central plane squares, but the 16-cell also contains a skew regular octagon, its [[W:Petrie polygon|Petrie polygon]].{{Efn|name=Petrie polygon of a honeycomb}} The chords of this regular octagon, which lies skew in 4-space, are those given above for the 16-cell, as opposed to those for the cube or the regular octagon in the plane. The 16-cell is a construct of 3 Petrie octagons which share the same 8 vertices but have disjoint sets of 8 edges each.
The regular octad has higher symmetry in 4-space than it does in 2-space. The 16-cell is the 4-[[w:Cross-polytope|orthoplex]], the simplest regular 4-polytope after the [[5-cell|4-simplex]]. All the larger regular convex 4-polytopes are compounds of the 16-cell. The regular octagon exhibits this high symmetry only when embedded in 4-space at the vertices of the 16-cell.
The 16-cell constitutes an [[W:Orthonormal basis|orthonormal basis]] for the choice of a 4-dimensional Cartesian reference frame, because its vertices define four orthogonal axes. The eight vertices of a unit-radius 16-cell are (±1, 0, 0, 0), (0, ±1, 0, 0), (0, 0, ±1, 0), (0, 0, 0, ±1). All vertices are connected by <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges except opposite pairs.
The vertex coordinates of the 16-cell form 6 central squares lying in 6 pairwise [[W:Orthogonal|orthogonal]] coordinate planes. Great squares in opposite planes that do not share an axis (e.g. in the ''xy'' and ''wz'' planes) are completely disjoint (they do not intersect at any vertices). These planes are [[W:Completely orthogonal|completely orthogonal]].{{Efn|name=Six orthogonal planes of the Cartesian basis}}
Since the unit-radius coordinate system is convenient, let us derive the unit-radius 16-cell by skewing a unit-radius planar octagon, which has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{2-\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.765,r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_4=2</math>
We will need a planar octagon with rigid <math>r_2</math> chords, rather than one with rigid <math>r_1</math> edges. The octagon's <math>r_2</math> chords form two disjoint great squares, visible in the orthogonal projection, which we can reposition in 3-space to form a cube by making them parallel, and in 4-space to form a 16-cell by making them completely orthogonal.
Each chord is a distinct 4-vector with a length and a direction. Since the edges of the 16-cell are all the same length <math>r_1=\sqrt{2},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2}</math>, those chords are distinct only in the context of a rotation, where vertices circle over the chords of an <math>r_i</math> polygon. The rotational curve over each <math>r_i</math> chord makes <math>i</math> 45° turns. The angle between two <math>r_i</math> chords is <math>180^\circ - i \times 45^\circ</math>.
[[File:16-cell-orig.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 8-point 16-cell <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small> performing a double rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}}]]
[[W:Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space|Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space]] can be seen as the composition of two 2-dimensional rotations in completely orthogonal planes. The general rotation in 4-space is a [[W:SO(4)#Double rotations|double rotation]] in pairs of completely orthogonal planes. Two completely orthogonal planes are called invariant planes of the rotation when all points in the plane rotate on circles that remain in the plane, even as the whole plane tilts sideways (like a coin flipping) into another plane. The two completely orthogonal rotations of each plane (like a wheel, and like a coin flipping) are simultaneous but independent, in that they are not geometrically constrained to turn at the same rate. However, the most circular kind of rotation (as opposed to an elliptical double rotation of a rigid spherical object) occurs when the completely orthogonal planes do rotate through the same angle in the same time interval. Such equi-angled double rotations are called [[w:SO(4)#Isoclinic_rotations|isoclinic]], also [[w:William_Kingdon_Clifford|Clifford]] displacements.
The <math>r_1</math> chords of the 16-cell form a Petrie polygon {8/1} which zig-zags back and forth, in the left and right rotational directions, between two completely orthogonal great squares formed by <math>r_2</math> chords.
The <math>r_2</math> chords of the 16-cell form an ''edge polygon'' {8/2}=2{4}. The two completely orthogonal great squares lie parallel and perpendicular to each other. A ''simple'' rotation of the 16-cell in ''one'' of those two square central planes rotates that square like a wheel, while the other square does not move.{{Efn|name=simple rotations}} The four vertices of the rotating square orbit on a great circle in the plane.
The <math>r_3</math> chords of the 16-cell form a circular helix, visible as a blue {8/3} octagram in the orthogonal projection. A ''double'' rotation of the 16-cell, in both of two completely orthogonal invariant <math>r_2</math> square planes at once by equal angles, moves the eight vertices along the circular helix over <math>r_3</math> chords. The vertex motion is a [[w:Geodesic|geodesic]] circle orbit on the 3-sphere of a special kind: it does not lie in a central plane, its [[w:Winding_number|winding number]] is not 1 (it is 3 in this case), its circumference is not <math>2\pi</math> (it is <math>6\pi</math> in this case), and it moves in either a left or right handed circular spiral. We shall refer to such a chiral circle orbit as an ''isocline'', and to the skew polygram of its rotational chords as a ''Clifford polygon''.
The 16-cell is the simplest possible frame in which to [[16-cell#Rotations|observe 4-dimensional rotations]] because its characteristic rotations feature a single pair of invariant rotation planes. In the 16-cell an isoclinic rotation by 90° in any pair of invariant completely orthogonal square central planes takes every great square to its completely orthogonal great square in a twisting displacement, as the invariant planes tilt sideways 90° into each other's plane while rotating 90° internally. All the vertices move at once along the same circular helix geodesic isocline of <math>r_3</math> chords, displaced 90° in 8 orthogonal directions, and the rigid 16-cell assumes a new orientation in 4-space. When the 90° isoclinic rotation is continued in the same rotational direction through an additional 90°, each vertex is again displaced 90°, but from the new orientation in a direction orthogonal to its first 90° displacement. The rotational curve over each 90° <math>r_3</math> chord makes three 45° turns. In 360° of isoclinic rotation over four <math>r_3</math> chords, each vertex makes twelve 45° turns and reaches its antipodal position.
The trajectory of each vertex over each 90° isoclinic rotational displacement is a one-eighth segment of its geodesic orbit. Its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over eight <math>r_3</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane twice, over the four <math>r_2</math> edges of a great square in one of the two moving invariant rotation planes. In the course of a 720° isoclinic revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 16-cell returns to its original orientation.
We shall refer to this isoclinic rotation as the ''great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell'', and note once again that it is Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_3</math> {8/3} star polygon, which constructs <math>1/r_3</math>.
== The 8-cell tesseract ==
The long diameter of the unit-edge [[W:Hypercube|hypercube]] of dimension <math>n</math> is <math>\sqrt{n}</math>, so the unit-edge [[w:Tesseract|4-hypercube, the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract,]] has chords:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math>
Uniquely in its 4-dimensional case, the hypercube's edge length equals its radius, like the hexagon. We call such polytopes ''radially equilateral'', because they can be constructed from equilateral triangles which meet at their center, each contributing two radii and an edge. The [[w:Cuboctahedron|cuboctahedron]] and the 24-cell are also radially equilateral.
[[File:8-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation about a plane in 4-space.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The stationary plane bisects the figure from front-left to back-right and top to bottom.]]
The [[W:Tesseract|tesseract]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 16 vertices, 32 edges, 24 square faces, and 8 cube cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cube.
The 16-point tesseract is the convex hull of a compound of two 8-point 16-cells, in exact dimensional analogy to the way the 8-point cube is the convex hull of a [[W:Stellated octahedron|compound of two 4-point regular tetrahedrons]]. The [[W:Demihypercube|demihypercubes]] occupy alternate vertices of the hypercubes. The diagonals of the square faces of the unit-edge, unit-radius tesseract are the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges of two unit-radius 16-cells, also the edges of the square central planes.
We can rotate the tesseract isoclinically the way we rotated the 16-cell, by 90° in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on both alternate-position 16-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cell. The two skew {8/3} octagram Clifford polygons lie on two disjoint parallel isoclines of the same chirality, of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chords. They form a circular double helix which intersects each vertex of the tesseract once. The double helix is an 8-rung ladder twisted around 3 times, and bent into a circle in the fourth dimension with its ends joined. Each rung is a <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chord.
The tesseract is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 16-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew octagon, but the tesseract is a construct of 4 Petrie octagons with disjoint sets of 8 tesseract edges each. We can construct the tesseract by skewing two planar octagons. Because the tesseract is radially equilateral (unlike the 16-cell), we use two octagons of unit-edge length to build the unit-radius tesseract. To start we embed the planar octagons in 4-space at the same point and make them completely orthogonal. Then we skew each planar octagon into a cube, so we have a compound of two completely orthogonal cubes, provided we skewed them both in the same direction. The 16 vertices will be the vertices of a tesseract with half its 32 edges missing.
Because the tesseract contains two 16-cells in alternate positions it has two sets of 6 orthogonal square central planes. Two angles are required to specify the relationship between two planes in 4-space. Pairs of square central planes within each 16-cell are 90° apart in one angle, and either 0° or 90° apart in the other angle. They are 90° apart in both angles if and only if they are completely orthogonal planes, 90° apart by isoclinic rotation, with no vertices in common and their corresponding pairs of vertices 180° apart. Otherwise they are 0° apart in one of the angles, 90° apart by simple rotation, and they intersect in one axis and lie in a common 3-dimensional hyperplane.{{Efn|A double rotation in which one of the two angles of rotation is 0°, so that one of the completely orthogonal invariant planes does not rotate, is called a simple rotation. Ordinary rotations observed in a 3-dimensional space are simple rotations.|name=simple rotations}}
A pair of square central planes from alternate-position 16-cells are 60° apart by isoclinic rotation, with their corresponding pairs of vertices 120° apart. The planes are not orthogonal or parallel, so they intersect in a line somewhere, but they have no vertices in common, they have no 3-dimensional hyperplane in common, and they cannot reach each other by simple rotation. Such pairs of objects are called [[W:Clifford parallel|Clifford parallel]] because all their corresponding pairs of vertices are the same distance apart, although they are not parallel in the usual sense, because they have a common center. Not only the alternate-position 16-cells' corresponding square central planes, but also the 16-cells themselves, are Clifford parallel objects. More generally, multiple disjoint instances of a 4-polytope which compound to make a larger 4-polytope are Clifford parallel objects.
== The 24-cell ==
[[File:24-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the radially equilateral 24-cell, showing its 3 great circle polygons and its 4 chord lengths.]]
In 2-space we have the radially equilateral 6-point hexagon. In 3-space we have the radially equilateral 12-point cuboctahedron, with 4 hexagon central planes. In 4-space we have the radially equilateral 24-point 24-cell, with 12 cuboctahedron central hyperplanes and 16 hexagon central planes.
The [[24-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small>. It has 24 vertices, 96 edges, 96 equilateral triangle faces, and 24 octahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cuboctahedron.
The 24-cell has the same chord set as the 4-hypercube tesseract:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math>
[[Image:24-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 24-point 24-cell <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 24 octahedra is visible.]]
The 24-cell is [[W:Dual polytope|self-dual]], like the regular polygons and regular simplexes. It is the maximal regular construct of triangles and squares (with no pentagons). It is the convex hull of a compound of three disjoint 8-point 16-cells, rotated 60° isoclinically with respect to each other. Each of the three pairs of 16-cells is a tesseract. Each 24-cell edge is also a tesseract edge. The corresponding vertices of two 16-cells or two tesseracts are 120° apart by a <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chord. Each tesseract has 8 cube cells, and each cube has four <math>\sqrt{3}</math> long diameters. The <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords joining the corresponding vertices of two tesseracts belong to the third tesseract as cell long diameters.
The 24-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular dodecagon {12}. The unit-radius planar {12}-gon has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}-1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.518,r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}+1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.932,r_6=\sqrt{4}</math>
Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that:
:<math>r_5-r_3+r_1+r_1-r_3=1/r_5</math>
when <math>r_1=1</math>. In the system of unit-radius coordinates <math>r_1=1/r_5</math>. The procedure rotates counterclockwise over five <math>r_5</math> chords of a {12/5} dodecagram.
The <math>r_1</math> and <math>r_5</math> chords of the planar dodecagon do not occur in the 24-cell, which is a construct of eight skew dodecagons with disjoint sets of twelve <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges each. In the skew dodecagons the chord lengths are:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\sqrt{3},r_6=\sqrt{4}</math>
Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation.
The <math>r_1</math> <small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small> chords form 8 Petrie dodecagons which zig-zag back and forth, in the left and right rotational directions, between two Clifford parallel great hexagons formed by <math>r_2</math> chords. The 8 Petrie dodecagons can be divided four ways into 2 disjoint Petrie dodecagons {24/2}=2{12}.
The <math>r_2</math> <small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small> chords form 16 great hexagons, which can be divided four ways into 4 Clifford parallel great hexagons {24/4}=4{6}.
The <math>r_3</math> <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chords form 18 great squares, which can be divided three ways into 6 Clifford parallel great squares {24/6}=6{4}, including one pair of completely orthogonal great squares from each of the three 16-cells.
The <math>r_4</math> <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords form 32 great triangles, which can be divided four ways into 8 disjoint great triangles {24/8}=8{3} inscribed in 4 Clifford parallel great hexagons.
The <math>r_5</math> <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords form 8 circular helix Clifford polygons, visible as a green {12/5} dodecagram in the orthogonal projection. An isoclinic rotation of the 24-cell in 4 invariant <math>r_2</math> hexagon planes moves the vertices along 2 Clifford parallel circular isoclines {24/2}=2{12/5} over <math>r_5</math> chords.
[[File:dodecagon24cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of half a 24-cell to the [[24-cell#Geodesics|F<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only one Petrie dodecagon {12} of the 24-cell is shown. In a unit-radius 24-cell, all black lines are 24-cell edges of unit length, also tesseract edges. The two disjoint hexagons lie in Clifford parallel central planes. Blue chords are <math>\sqrt{2}</math> 16-cell edges of Clifford parallel great squares, also isocline chords in great square rotations. Green chords are <math>\sqrt{3}</math> distances between corresponding vertices of two 16-cells, also isocline chords in great hexagon rotations. The green {12/5} dodecagram is a Clifford polygon.]]
[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} shows three octagram isoclines of <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math> </small>chords in the 24-cell]]
We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 6 Clifford parallel invariant great square planes containing 16-cell edges, in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on all three 16-cells. In 720° each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cells. The rotational curve over each 90° <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chord makes three 45° turns. Three Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chords form a circular triple helix {24/9}=3{8/3} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. The triple helix is an 8-step circular staircase that twists around 3 times, and is bent into a torus in the fourth dimension. Each staircase step is a great triangle of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords.
[[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} shows 2 dodecagram isoclines of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords in the 24-cell]]We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 4 Clifford parallel invariant great hexagon planes containing 24-cell edges, over <math>r_{5}</math> isocline chords. This is the ''great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell'', also Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_5</math> {12/5} star polygon which constructs <math>1/r_5</math>. A complete 24-cell great circle edge plane revolution requires 720° like a complete 16-cell great circle edge plane revolution, but it is completed in 12 isoclinic displacements of 60° each rather than 8 isoclinic displacements of 90° each. An isoclinic rotation by 60° in an invariant central plane containing a 24-cell edge takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon in a twisting displacement, as 4 invariant great hexagon planes tilt sideways 60° while rotating 60° internally. It also takes every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. All 24 vertices move at once on Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 120° in different directions. The trajectory of each vertex over each 60° rotational displacement is a one-twelfth segment of its geodesic orbit. Its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space over 12 <math>r_5</math> <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane 5 times in a moving invariant rotation plane. The rotational curve over each <math>r_5</math> 120° chord makes five 30° turns. Two Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> form a circular double helix {24/10}=2{12/5} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 24-cell returns to its original orientation.
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |6 distinct 180° chord pairs make 6 distinct isoclinic rotations
|-
! colspan="3" |Short chords
!Invariant planes
! colspan="3" |Long chords
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_1</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_24.svg|100px]]<br>{24/1}={24}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-11.svg|100px]]<br>{24/11}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{11}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|165°
|15°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_2</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/2}=2{12}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_4(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/4}=4{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,5).svg|100px]]<br>{24/10}=2{12/5}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{10}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|150°
|30°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_3</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/3}=3{8}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|100px]]<br>{24/9}=3{8/3}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{9}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|135°
|45°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_4</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_4(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/4}=4{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_12(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/12}=12{2}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_8(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/8}=8{3}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{8}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|120°
|60°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_5</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-5.svg|100px]]<br>{24/5}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-7.svg|100px]]<br>{24/7}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{7}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|105°
|75°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_6</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{6}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|90°
|90°
|}
By examining the chords <math>r_i</math> of the 24-cell's Petrie {12}-gon we have found two distinct isoclinic rotations, the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell and the great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell. If we examine the chords <math>t_i</math> of the 24-cell's {24}-gon we find these, and also four other distinct isoclinic rotations.
Each row of the table describes a distinct isoclinic rotation of the 24-cell characterized by a pair of chords whose arc-lengths sum to 180°. Each chord lies in a central plane which is either a great square or a great hexagon. Each short chord plane is completely orthogonal to a corresponding long chord plane. These central planes are not to be confused with the invariant planes of the rotation, which intersect 0, 2, 4, or 6 vertices of the 24-cell as illustrated in the center column of each row.
The short chord and long chord each have their characteristic {24/''n''}-gon, which correspond as projections of the 24-cell to completely orthogonal planes. Their projection viewpoints look straight down orthogonal cylinders which are actually [[w:SO(4)#Visualization_of_4D_rotations|bent into tori in 4-space]].
Each {24/''n''}-gon forms ''n'' disjoint Clifford parallel regular polygons. Polygons with {2}, {3}, {4} or {6} sides lie in a central plane, and all others lie skew in 4-space. The rotational angle between successive short chords in 4-space and the rotational angle between successive long chords in 4-space sum to 180°. Those angles distinguish distinct chords <math>t_i</math> which are the same length.
Each isoclinic rotation takes two chiral forms. There is a ''right rotation'' and a ''left rotation'' for each row of the table. The right and left rotations are enantiomorphous reflections of each other like a pair of clasped hands, with non-congruent vertex position sequences. The right rotation takes Clifford parallel short chord polygons to each other, while the long chord polygons remain stationary in 4-space as vertices circle over them. In the left rotation the roles of the short chord polygon and the long chord polygon are reversed: the short chord polygons are stationary in 4-space as vertices circle over them, as the rotation takes Clifford parallel long chord polygons to each other.
{{Clear}}
== The 600-cell ==
[[Image:600-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 120-point 600-cell <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2011}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 600 tetrahedra is visible. Invisible in this rendering are 25 inscribed instances of the 24-cell (above), which occur in the 600-cell as interior boundary envelopes.]]
The [[600-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small>. It has 120 vertices, 720 edges, 1200 equilateral triangle faces, and 600 tetrahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the icosahedron.
The 600-cell rounds out the 24-cell by adding 96 more vertices (four more disjoint 24-cells) between the 24-cell's existing 24 vertices, in effect adding twenty-four more distinct 24-cells inscribed in the 600-cell. The new surface thus formed is a honeycomb of smaller, more numerous cells: tetrahedra of edge length <math>\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> instead of octahedra of edge length <math>\sqrt{1}</math>. It encloses the <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges of the 24-cells, which become invisible interior chords in the 600-cell, like the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords.
Since the tetrahedra are made of shorter triangle edges than the octahedra (by a factor of <math>\phi^{-1}</math> the inverse golden ratio), the 600-cell is not radially equilateral like the 24-cell and the tesseract. Like them it is radially triangular in a special way, but one in which [[w:Golden_triangle_(mathematics)|golden triangles]] rather than equilateral triangles meet at the center.
In 2-space we have the ''radially golden'' [[W:Decagon#The golden ratio in decagon|regular decagon]]. In 3-space we have the radially golden 30-point [[W:icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]], with 6 decagon central planes. In 4-space we have the radially golden 120-point 600-cell, with 60 icosidodecahedron central hyperplanes and 72 decagon central planes.
The 600-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular [[w:Triacontagon|triacontagon {30}]]. The unit-radius planar {30}-gon has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.209</math>
:<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.416</math>
:<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.813</math>
:<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math>
:<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.338</math>
:<math>r_8=2 \cos (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.486</math>
:<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math>
:<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{11}=2 \cos (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.827</math>
:<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{13}=2 \cos (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.956</math>
:<math>r_{14}=2 \cos (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.989</math>
:<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math>
Only the chord lengths <math>r_3</math>, <math>r_5</math>, <math>r_6</math>, <math>\sqrt{2}</math>, <math>r_9</math>, <math>r_{10}</math>, <math>r_{12}</math>, <math>r_{15}</math> occur in the 600-cell, which is a construct of 24 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>r_3</math>, six of which intersect in each icosahedral vertex figure. In the skew {30}-gons the chord lengths are:
[[File:600-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the 600-cell, showing its 5 regular great circle polygons and its 8 chord lengths with angles of arc. The golden ratio governs the fractional roots of every other chord, and the radial golden triangles which meet at the center.|400x400px]]
:<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math>
:<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math>
:<math>r_8=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math>
:<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math>
:<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{11}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{13}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{14}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math>
Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation.
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |15 chords (4 distinct 180° pairs) make 4 distinct section polyhedra
|-
! colspan="3" |Short chords
! Section
! colspan="3" |Long chords
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_0</math>
|0°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2}
|180°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{15}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0}}
|{{radic|4}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0
|2
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|180°
|0°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_1</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14}=2{15/7}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{14}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|168°
|12°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_2</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{13}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|156°
|24°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_3</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V1 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{12}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|144°
|36°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_4</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{11}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|132°
|48°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_5</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V2 dodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Dodecahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{10}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|120°
|60°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{6}</math>
|72°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V3 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3}
|108°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{9}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|1.382~}}
|{{radic|2.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|1.176~
|1.618~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|108°
|72°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{7}</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V4 icosidodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosidodecahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{8}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|96°
|84°
|}
The list of 600-cell chords <math>r_{i}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 8 rows with a pair of 180° complements in each row. The short chord and long chord each have their characteristic {30/n}-gon. Each row identifies a distinct isoclinic rotation of the 600-cell.
Each distinct pair of complementary chord lengths is identified with a distinct [[w:600-cell#Polyhedral sections|polyhedral section of the 600-cell]] beginning with a vertex. In spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]], every vertex is the center of a set of 7 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>\phi^{-1}</math> is a icosahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>\sqrt{2}</math> is an [[W:Icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]] central section bisecting the 600-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>\sqrt{2}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal icosahedron vertex figure at distance <math>\sqrt{2+\phi}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 7 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section).
[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>]]
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on 15 disjoint 16-cells. Each 90° displacement takes 15 pairs of completely orthogonal invariant great square planes to each other. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. The rotational curve over each 90° chord makes three 45° turns. Fifteen Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> form a circular fibration of 15 twisted parallel strands 5{24/9}=15{8/3} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great square planes, which has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. This ''great square rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' takes place over <math>r_7</math> edge chords and <math>r_8</math> isocline chords. The {30/7} edge polygon is a skew helix of circumference <math>14\pi</math> with each <math>r_7</math> edge belonging to a distinct great square. The four {30/7} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. Each 90° displacement takes every 16-cell to another 16-cell. The vertices of the invariant great squares each make seven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/7} edge makes seven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/7} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The {30/8}=2{15/4} Clifford polygon is a compound of two skew {15/4} pentadecagrams of circumference <math>16\pi</math> with each <math>r_8</math> isocline chord belonging to a distinct 16-cell. The four {30/8} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/8} isocline chord makes eight 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/8} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
{{Clear}}
[[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> ]]
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell, over <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords, with the same effect on 5 disjoint 24-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions of its 24-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. Ten Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> form a circular fibration of ten twisted parallel strands 5{24/10}=10{12/5} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great hexagon planes, over <math>r_{4}=\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>r_{11}=\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords This ''great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. Its {30/11} Clifford polygon is a skew helix where each <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord is the <math>\sqrt{3}</math> diagonal of a great hexagon of a distinct 24-cell. The vertices of the invariant great hexagons of this rotation each make eleven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord makes eleven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/11} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>22\pi</math> over <math>r_{11}</math> chords form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in 12 Clifford parallel invariant decagon central planes containing its 36° <math>r_{3}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{12}</math> isocline chords. This ''great pentagon rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' has period 5 and takes disjoint 24-cells to each other. The rotational curve over each <math>r_{12}</math> chord of its {5/2} Clifford polygon makes twelve 12° turns. 24 Clifford parallel {5/2} pentagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>4\pi</math> over five <math>r_{12}</math> chords form a circular fibration of 24 twisted parallel strands 4{30/12}=24{5/2} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The rotation of the 600-cell by 36° in any invariant decagon central plane takes every great decagon to a Clifford parallel great decagon in a twisting displacement, as all the central planes tilt sideways 36° while rotating 36° internally. It also takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon, and every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. The 24-cells revolve within the 600-cell, as the 16-cells revolve within the 24-cells. All 120 vertices move at once on four Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 144° in different directions.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great decagon planes containing its 36° <math>r_{2}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chords. This rotation has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. The rotational curve over each 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chord makes thirteen 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/13} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>26\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
{{Clear}}
== Finally the 120-cell ==
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |30 chords (15 180° pairs) make 15 distinct section polyhedra
|-
! colspan="3" |Short chords
! Section
! colspan="3" |Long chords
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_0</math>
|0°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2}
|180°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{30}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0}}
|{{radic|4}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0
|2
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|180°
|0°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_1</math>
|15.5~°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14}
|164.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{29}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0.073~}}
|{{radic|3.927~}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0.270~
|1.982~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|168°
|12°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_2</math>
|25.2~°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13}
|154.8~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{28}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.191~}}
|{{radic|3.809~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.437~
|1.952~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|156°
|24°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_3</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{27}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|144°
|36°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_4</math>
|41.4~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|138.6~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{26}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.5}}
|{{radic|3.5}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.707~
|1.871~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|138°
|42°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_5</math>
|44.5~°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11}
|135.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{25}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0.573~}}
|{{radic|3.427~}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0.757~
|1.851~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|132°
|48°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_6</math>
|49.1~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|130.9~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{24}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.691~}}
|{{radic|3.309~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.831~
|1.819~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|128°
|52°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_7</math>
|56°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|124°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{23}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.882~}}
|{{radic|3.118~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.939~
|1.766~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|124°
|56°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_8</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{22}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|120°
|60°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_9</math>
|66.1~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|113.9~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{21}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1.191~}}
|{{radic|2.809~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1.091~
|1.676~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|116°
|64°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{10}</math>
|69.8~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|110.2~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{20}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1.309~}}
|{{radic|2.691~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1.144~
|1.640~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|112°
|68°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{11}</math>
|72°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3}
|108°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{19}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|1.382~}}
|{{radic|2.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|1.176~
|1.618~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|108°
|72°
|- style="background: palegreen; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{12}</math>
|75.5~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
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|1.581~
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|81.1~°
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|98.9~°
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The [[120-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 600 vertices, 1200 edges, 720 pentagon faces, and 120 dodecahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the dodecahedron.
The [[User:Dc.samizdat/Golden chords of the 120-cell#Thirty distinguished distances|list of thirty 120-cell chords]] <math>c_{t}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 16 rows and 2 columns with a pair of 180° complements in each row. This table first appears in [[w:Regular_Polytopes_(book)|''Regular Polytopes'']] (1947),{{Sfn|Coxeter|1973|loc=Table V(v): Simplified sections of {5,3,3} beginning with a vertex|pp=300-301}} where Coxeter identified each row with a distinct [[w:120-cell#Concentric_hulls|polyhedral section of the 120-cell]] beginning with a vertex. He showed that in spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] every vertex is the center of a set of 29 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>c_1</math> is a tetrahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>c_{15}</math> is a central section bisecting the 120-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>c_{15}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal tetrahedron vertex figure at distance <math>c_{29}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 29 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section). Each section also lies completely orthogonal to a congruent section.
Only 8 of the 30 chords in the table occur in the 600-cell. The 120-cell's additional chords arise originally from the regular 5-cell 4-simplex, in its interaction with the other regular 4-polytopes that compound to make the 120-cell. Since all those polytopes except the 5-cell occur in the 600-cell, and the 600-cell and the 120-cell have the same symmetry group, the 5-cell's symmetry group is the entirety of what's new in the 120-cell.
The 120-cell is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 600-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew triacontagon {30}, but the 120-cell is a construct of 40 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>c_1</math>, two of which intersect in each tetrahedral vertex figure.
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== Conclusions ==
Fontaine and Hurley's discovery is more than a geometric formula for the reciprocal of a regular ''n''-polygon diagonal. It also yields the discrete sequence of isocline chords of the characteristic isoclinic rotation of a ''d''-dimensional polytope. The characteristic rotational chord sequence of the ''d''-polytope can be represented geometrically in two dimensions on a distinct star polygon, but it lies on a geodesic circle through ''d''-dimensional space. Fontaine and Hurley discovered the geodesic topology of polytopes generally. Their procedure will reveal the geodesics of arbitrary non-uniform polytopes, since it can be applied to a polytope of any dimensionality and irregularity, by first fitting the polytope to the smallest regular polygon whose chords include its chords. [If what is meant by this is its Petrie polygon, it is not quite necessary or possible with respect to the planar polygon chords, e.g. the planar Petrie polygon of the 600-cell does not contain the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chord. But perhaps it would work if the fit is to the smallest regular skew polygon in the ''d''-space.]
The discovery of a chordal construction for discrete isoclinic rotations generally closes the circuit on Kappraff and Adamson's discovery of a rotational connection between dynamical systems, Steinbach's golden fields, and Coxeter's Euclidean geometry of reflections in ''n'' dimensions. Application of the Fontaine and Hurley procedure to the 120-cell demonstrates why the connection exists: because polytope sequences generally, from Steinbach's golden chord sequences in polygons, to sequences of star polygons in isoclinic rotations, to subsumption relations in the sequence of regular 4-polytopes, arise as expressions of the reflections and rotations of distinct Coxeter symmetry groups, when those various groups interact.
== Appendix: Sequence of regular 4-polytopes ==
{{Regular convex 4-polytopes|wiki=W:|columns=7}}
== Notes ==
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== Citations ==
{{Reflist}}
== References ==
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* {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=1997 | title=Golden fields: A case for the Heptagon | journal=Mathematics Magazine | volume=70 | issue=Feb 1997 | pages=22–31 | doi=10.1080/0025570X.1997.11996494 | jstor=2691048 | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|1997}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=2000 | title=Sections Beyond Golden| journal=Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music and Science | issue=2000 | pages=35-44 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2000/bridges2000-35.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|2000}}}}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Jablan | first2=Slavik | last3=Adamson | first3=Gary | last4=Sazdanovich | first4=Radmila | year=2004 | title=Golden Fields, Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, and Chaotic Matrices | journal=Forma | volume=19 | pages=367-387 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2005/bridges2005-369.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff, Jablan, Adamson & Sazdanovich|2004}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Adamson | first2=Gary | year=2004 | title=Polygons and Chaos | journal=Dynamical Systems and Geometric Theories | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2001/bridges2001-67.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff & Adamson|2004}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Fontaine | first1=Anne | last2=Hurley | first2=Susan | year=2006 | title=Proof by Picture: Products and Reciprocals of Diagonal Length Ratios in the Regular Polygon | journal=Forum Geometricorum | volume=6 | pages=97-101 | url=https://scispace.com/pdf/proof-by-picture-products-and-reciprocals-of-diagonal-length-1aian8mgp9.pdf }}
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= Golden chords of the 120-cell =
{{align|center|David Brooks Christie}}
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{{align|center|January 2026 - June 2026}}
<blockquote>Steinbach discovered the formula for the ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. Fontaine and Hurley extended this result, discovering a formula for the reciprocal of a regular polygon chord derived geometrically from the chord's star polygon. We observe that these findings in plane geometry apply more generally, to polytopes of any dimensionality. Fontaine and Hurley's geometric procedure for finding the reciprocals of the chords of a regular polygon from their star polygons also finds the rotational geodesics of any polytope of any dimensionality.</blockquote>
== Introduction ==
Steinbach discovered the Diagonal Product Formula and the Golden Fields family of ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. He showed how this family extends beyond the pentagon {5} with its well-known golden bisection proportional to 𝜙, finding that the heptagon {7} has an analogous trisection, the nonagon {9} has an analogous quadrasection, and the hendecagon {11} has an analogous pentasection, an extended family of golden proportions with quasiperiodic properties.
Kappraff and Adamson extended these findings in plane geometry to a theory of Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, showing that the Golden Fields not only do not end with the hendecagon, they form an infinite number of periodic trajectories when operated on by the Mandelbrot operator. They found a relation between the edges of star polygons and dynamical systems in the state of chaos, revealing a connection between chaos theory, number, and rotations in Coxeter Euclidean geometry.
Fontaine and Hurley examined Steinbach's finding that the length of each chord of a regular polygon is both the product of two chords and the sum of a set of smaller chords, so that in rotations to add is to multiply. They illustrated Steinbach's sets of additive chords lying parallel to each other in the plane (pointing in the same direction), and by applying Steinbach's formula more generally they found another summation relation of signed parallel chords (pointing in opposite directions) which relates each chord length to its reciprocal, and relates the summation to a distinct star polygon rotation.
We examine these remarkable findings (which stem from study of the chords of humble regular polygons) in higher-dimensional spaces, specifically in the chords, polygons and rotations of the [[120-cell]], the largest four-dimensional regular convex polytope.
== Visualizing the 120-cell ==
{| class="wikitable floatright" width="400"
|style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:120-cell.gif|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point 120-cell <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small> performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]].{{Sfn|Hise|2011|loc=File:120-cell.gif|ps=; "Created by Jason Hise with Maya and Macromedia Fireworks. A 3D projection of a 120-cell performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]]."}} In this simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges are shown; its 29 interior chords are not rendered. Therefore even though it is translucent, only its outer surface is visible. The complex interior parts of the 120-cell, all its inscribed 5-cells, 16-cells, 8-cells, 24-cells, 600-cells and its much larger inventory of polyhedra, are completely invisible in this view, as none of their edges are rendered at all.
|style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:Ortho solid 016-uniform polychoron p33-t0.png|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point [[W:Great grand stellated 120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] <small><math>\{\tfrac{5}{2},3,3\}</math></small>.{{Sfn|Ruen: Great grand stellated 120-cell|2007}} The 120-cell is its convex hull. The projection to the left renders only the 120-cell's shortest chord, its 1200 edges. The projection above also renders only one of the 120-cell's 30 chords, the edges of its 120 inscribed regular 5-cells. The 120-cell itself (the convex hull) is invisible in this view, as its edges are not rendered.
|}
[[120-cell#Geometry|The 120-cell is the maximally complex regular 4-polytope]], containing inscribed instances of every regular 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-polytope, except the regular polygons of more than {15} sides.
The 120-cell is the convex hull of a regular [[120-cell#Relationships among interior polytopes|compound of each of the 6 regular convex 4-polytopes]]. They are the [[5-cell|5-point (5-cell) 4-simplex]], the [[16-cell|8-point (16-cell) 4-orthoplex]], the [[W:Tesseract|16-point (8-cell) tesseract]], the [[24-cell|24-point (24-cell)]], the [[600-cell|120-point (600-cell)]], and the [[120-cell|600-point (120-cell)]]. The 120-cell is the convex hull of a compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells, of 75 disjoint 16-cells, of 25 disjoint 24-cells, and of 5 disjoint 600-cells.
The 120-cell contains an even larger inventory of irregular polytopes, created by the intersection of multiple instances of these component regular 4-polytopes. Many are quite unexpected, because they do not occur as components of any regular polytope smaller than the 120-cell. As just one example among the [[120-cell#Concentric hulls|sections of the 120-cell]], there is an irregular 24-point polyhedron with 16 triangle faces and 4 nonagon {9} faces.{{Sfn|Moxness|}}
Most renderings of the 120-cell, like the rotating projection here, only illustrate its outer surface, which is a honeycomb of face-bonded dodecahedral cells. Only the objects in its 3-dimensional surface are rendered, namely the 120 dodecahedra, their pentagon faces, and their edges. Although the 120-cell has chords of 30 distinct lengths, in this kind of simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges (its shortest chord) are shown. Its 29 interior chords, the edges of objects in the interior of the 120-cell, are not rendered, so interior objects are not visible at all.
Visualizing the complete interior of the 600-vertex 120-cell in a single image is impractical because of its complexity. Only four 120-cell edges are incident at each vertex, but [[120-cell#Chords|600 chords (of all 30 lengths)]] are incident at ''each'' vertex.
== Compounds in the 120-cell ==
The 8-point (16-cell), not the 5-point (5-cell) 4-simplex, is the smallest building block; it compounds to every larger regular 4-polytope. The 5-point (5-cell) does compound to the 600-point (120-cell), but it does not fit into any smaller regular 4-polytope.
The 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 2 in the 16-point (8-cell), and by 3 in the 24-point (24-cell). The 16-point (8-cell) compounds in the 24-point (24-cell) by 3 non-disjoint instances of itself, with each of the 24 vertices shared by two 16-point (8-cells). The 24-point (24-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell), and the 120-point (600-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell).
The 24-point (24-cell) also compounds by 5<sup>2</sup> non-disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell); it compounds in 5 disjoint instances of itself, 10 (not 5) different ways. Whichever set of 5 disjoint 24-point (24-cells) are assembled, the resulting 120-point (600-cell) contains 25 distinct 24-point (24-cells), not just 5 (or 10). Consequently 15 disjoint 8-point (16-cells) will construct a 120-point (600-cell), which contains 75 distinct 8-point (16-cells).
The 600-point (120-cell) is 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), just 2 different ways (not 5 or 10 ways), so it is 10 distinct 120-point (600-cells). Consequently the 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 3 times 5<sup>2</sup> (75) disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell), which contains 3<sup>2</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (225) distinct instances of the 24-point (24-cell), and 3<sup>3</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (675) distinct instances of the 8-point (16-cell).
These facts were discovered painstakingly by various researchers, and no one has found a general rule governing subsumption relations among regular polytopes. The reasons for some of their numeric incidence relations are far from obvious. [[W:Pieter Hendrik Schoute|Schoute]] was the first to see that the 120-point (600-cell) is a compound of 5 24-point (24-cells) ''10 different ways'', and after he saw it a hundred years lapsed until Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne proved his result, and showed why.{{Sfn|Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne|2020|loc=''The geometry of H4 polytopes''}}
So much for the compounds of 16-cells. The 120-cell is also the convex hull of the compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells. That stellated compound (without its convex hull of 120-cell edges) is the [[w:Great_grand_stellated_120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] illustrated above, the final regular [[W:Stellation|stellation]] of the 120-cell, and the only [[W:Schläfli-Hess polychoron|regular star 4-polytope]] to have the 120-cell for its convex hull. The edges of the great grand stellated 120-cell are <math>\phi^6</math> as long as those of its 120-cell [[W:List of polyhedral stellations#Stellation process|stellation core]] deep inside.
The compound of 120 disjoint 5-point (5-cells) can be seen to be equivalent to the compound of 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), as follows. Beginning with a single 120-point (600-cell), expand each vertex into a regular 5-cell, by adding 4 new equidistant vertices, such that the 5 vertices form a regular 5-cell inscribed in the 3-sphere. The 120 5-cells are disjoint, and the 600 vertices form 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells): a 120-cell.
== Thirty distinguished distances ==
The 30 numbers listed in the table are all-important in Euclidean geometry. A case can be made on symmetry grounds that their squares are the 30 most important numbers between 0 and 4. The 30 rows of the table are the 30 distinct [[120-cell#Geodesic rectangles|chord lengths of the unit-radius 120-cell]], the largest regular convex 4-polytope. Since the 120-cell subsumes all smaller regular polytopes, its 30 chords are the complete chord set of all the regular polytopes that can be constructed in the first four dimensions of Euclidean space, except for regular polygons of more than 15 sides.
{| class="wikitable" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
!rowspan=2|<math>c_t</math>
!rowspan=2|arc
!rowspan=2|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{n}\right\}</math></small>
!rowspan=2|<math>\left\{p\right\}</math>
!rowspan=2|<small><math>m\left\{\frac{k}{d}\right\}</math></small>
!rowspan=2|Steinbach roots
!colspan=7|Chord lengths of the unit 120-cell
|-
!colspan=5|unit-radius length <math>c_t</math>
!colspan=2|unit-edge length <math>c_t/c_1</math><br>in 120-cell of radius <math>c_8=\sqrt{2}\phi^2</math>
|-
|<small><math>c_{1,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>15.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>c_{4,1}-c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.270091</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi ^2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^4}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.072949}</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1.</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>25.2{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>2 \left\{15\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(c_{18,1}-c_{4,1}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{3-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.437016</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.190983}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi </math></small>
|<small><math>1.61803</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{3,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>36{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{10\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>3 \left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right) c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>0.618034</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.381966}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>2.28825</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>41.4{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.707107</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.61803</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{5,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>44.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{4}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>2 \left\{\frac{15}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.756934</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}}{\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.572949}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>2.80252</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{6,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>49.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{17}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.831254</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5}}{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.690983}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>3.07768</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{7,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>56.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.93913</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.881966}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>3.47709</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>60{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1.</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>3.70246</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{9,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>66.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{2 \phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.09132</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.19098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>4.04057</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{10,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>69.8{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2 \sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.14412</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\phi }{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^2}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>4.23607</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{11,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>72{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{6}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.17557</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.38197}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \sqrt{3-\phi } \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.3525</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{12,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>75.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{24}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.22474</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.53457</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{13,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>81.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.30038</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.69098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.8146</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{14,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>84.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{9}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi } c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{1+\sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.345</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi }}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5} \phi }{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>4.9798</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{15,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>90.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.41421</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>5.23607</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{16,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>95.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{29}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.4802</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.19098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>5.48037</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{17,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>98.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{31}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.51954</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(7+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>5.62605</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{18,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>104.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{8}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{4}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.58114</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{5} \sqrt{\phi ^4}</math></small>
|<small><math>5.8541</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{19,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>108.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{9}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>c_{3,1}+c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>1.61803</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi </math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1+\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.61803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>5.9907</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{20,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>110.2{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.64042</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.69098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\phi ^2}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.07359</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{21,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>113.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{19}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.67601</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\chi }{\phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.20537</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{22,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>120{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{10}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.73205</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{6} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>6.41285</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{23,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>124.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{41}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }+\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.7658</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.11803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.53779</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{24,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>130.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.81907</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\sqrt{5}}{\phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.73503</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{25,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>135.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.85123</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\phi ^2}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^4}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.42705}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^4</math></small>
|<small><math>6.8541</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{26,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>138.6{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{12}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.87083</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{7} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>6.92667</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{27,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>144{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{12}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{5}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.90211</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\phi +2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2+\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.61803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{2 \phi +4}</math></small>
|<small><math>7.0425</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{28,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>154.8{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.95167</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>7.22598</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{29,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>164.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{14}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi c_{12,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>1.98168</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3 \phi ^2}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.92705}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>7.33708</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{30,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>180{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{15}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.</math></small>
|<small><math>2</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4.}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 \sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>7.40492</math></small>
|-
|rowspan=4 colspan=6|
|rowspan=4 colspan=4|
<small><math>\phi</math></small> is the golden ratio:<br>
<small><math>\phi ^2-\phi -1=0</math></small><br>
<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }+1=\phi</math></small>, and: <small><math>\phi+1=\phi^2</math></small><br>
<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }::1::\phi ::\phi ^2</math></small><br>
<small><math>1/\phi</math></small> and <small><math>\phi</math></small> are the golden sections of <small><math>\sqrt{5}</math></small>:<br>
<small><math>\phi +\frac{1}{\phi }=\sqrt{5}</math></small>
|colspan=2|<small><math>\phi = (\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>1.618034</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\chi = (3\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>3.854102</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = (3\sqrt{5} - 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.854102</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = 11/\chi = 22/(3\sqrt{5} + 1)</math></small>
|<small><math>2.854102</math></small>
|}
== The 16-cell 4-orthoplex ==
In 2-space we have the regular 8-point octagon, in 3-space the regular 8-point cube, and in 4-space the regular 8-point [[16-cell]].
A planar octagon with rigid edges of unit length has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1,r_2=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_3=\sqrt{2}+1 \approx 2.414,r_4=\sqrt{4 + \sqrt{8}} \approx 2.613</math>
The chord ratio <math>r_3=\sqrt{2}+1</math> is a geometrical proportion, the [[W:Silver ratio|silver ratio]]. Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that:
:<math>r_3-r_1-r_1=1/r_3 \approx 0.414</math>
Note that <math>r_3-2=1/r_3=\sqrt{2}-1</math>. Their procedure rotates counterclockwise over three <math>r_3</math> chords of an {8/3} octagram. Over the first <math>r_3</math> chord the displacement is <math>\sqrt{2}+1</math>. Over the second <math>r_3</math> chord it moves in the opposite direction a distance of <math>-1</math> . Over the third <math>r_3</math> chord it also moves a distance of <math>-1</math>. Fontaine and Hurley also demonstrated the significance of <math>1/r_i</math> in Steinbach's Diagonal Product Formula, which says that every chord length is the sum of certain smaller chord lengths. The smaller chords are certain diagonals of the same regular polygon of a smaller edge length, specifically edge length <math>1/r_i</math> rather than <math>1</math>.
If we embed the planar octagon in 3-space, we can make it skew, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from three others instead of two others, at the vertices of a unit-edge cube with chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1, r_2=\sqrt{2}, r_3=\sqrt{3}, r_4=\sqrt{2}</math>
If we embed this cube in 4-space, we can skew it some more, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from six others instead of three others, at the vertices of a unit-edge 4-polytope with chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1,r_2=1,r_3=1,r_4=\sqrt{2}</math>
All of its chords except its long diameters are the same unit length as its edge. In fact they are its 24 edges, and it is a 16-cell of radius <math>1/\sqrt{2}</math>.
[[File:octagon16cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of a regular 16-cell to the [[16-cell#Projections|B<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only its edges are shown; its long diameter chords are not drawn. All 24 edges are the same length and none lie parallel to the projection plane. The octagon circumference is a Petrie polygon. The two disjoint squares lie in completely orthogonal central planes. The blue octagram is a Clifford polygon. ]]
The [[16-cell]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small>. It has 8 vertices, 24 edges, 32 equilateral triangle faces, and 16 regular tetrahedron cells. It is the [[16-cell#Octahedral dipyramid|four-dimensional analogue of the octahedron]], and each of its four orthogonal central hyperplanes is an octahedron.
The only planar regular polygons found in the 16-cell are face triangles and central plane squares, but the 16-cell also contains a skew regular octagon, its [[W:Petrie polygon|Petrie polygon]].{{Efn|name=Petrie polygon of a honeycomb}} The chords of this regular octagon, which lies skew in 4-space, are those given above for the 16-cell, as opposed to those for the cube or the regular octagon in the plane. The 16-cell is a construct of 3 Petrie octagons which share the same 8 vertices but have disjoint sets of 8 edges each.
The regular octad has higher symmetry in 4-space than it does in 2-space. The 16-cell is the 4-[[w:Cross-polytope|orthoplex]], the simplest regular 4-polytope after the [[5-cell|4-simplex]]. All the larger regular convex 4-polytopes are compounds of the 16-cell. The regular octagon exhibits this high symmetry only when embedded in 4-space at the vertices of the 16-cell.
The 16-cell constitutes an [[W:Orthonormal basis|orthonormal basis]] for the choice of a 4-dimensional Cartesian reference frame, because its vertices define four orthogonal axes. The eight vertices of a unit-radius 16-cell are (±1, 0, 0, 0), (0, ±1, 0, 0), (0, 0, ±1, 0), (0, 0, 0, ±1). All vertices are connected by <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges except opposite pairs.
The vertex coordinates of the 16-cell form 6 central squares lying in 6 pairwise [[W:Orthogonal|orthogonal]] coordinate planes. Great squares in opposite planes that do not share an axis (e.g. in the ''xy'' and ''wz'' planes) are completely disjoint (they do not intersect at any vertices). These planes are [[W:Completely orthogonal|completely orthogonal]].{{Efn|name=Six orthogonal planes of the Cartesian basis}}
Since the unit-radius coordinate system is convenient, let us derive the unit-radius 16-cell by skewing a unit-radius planar octagon, which has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{2-\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.765,r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_4=2</math>
We will need a planar octagon with rigid <math>r_2</math> chords, rather than one with rigid <math>r_1</math> edges. The octagon's <math>r_2</math> chords form two disjoint great squares, visible in the orthogonal projection, which we can reposition in 3-space to form a cube by making them parallel, and in 4-space to form a 16-cell by making them completely orthogonal.
Each chord is a distinct 4-vector with a length and a direction. Since the edges of the 16-cell are all the same length <math>r_1=\sqrt{2},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2}</math>, those chords are distinct only in the context of a rotation, where vertices circle over the chords of an <math>r_i</math> polygon. The rotational curve over each <math>r_i</math> chord makes <math>i</math> 45° turns. The angle between two <math>r_i</math> chords is <math>180^\circ - i \times 45^\circ</math>.
[[File:16-cell-orig.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 8-point 16-cell <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small> performing a double rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}}]]
[[W:Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space|Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space]] can be seen as the composition of two 2-dimensional rotations in completely orthogonal planes. The general rotation in 4-space is a [[W:SO(4)#Double rotations|double rotation]] in pairs of completely orthogonal planes. Two completely orthogonal planes are called invariant planes of the rotation when all points in the plane rotate on circles that remain in the plane, even as the whole plane tilts sideways (like a coin flipping) into another plane. The two completely orthogonal rotations of each plane (like a wheel, and like a coin flipping) are simultaneous but independent, in that they are not geometrically constrained to turn at the same rate. However, the most circular kind of rotation (as opposed to an elliptical double rotation of a rigid spherical object) occurs when the completely orthogonal planes do rotate through the same angle in the same time interval. Such equi-angled double rotations are called [[w:SO(4)#Isoclinic_rotations|isoclinic]], also [[w:William_Kingdon_Clifford|Clifford]] displacements.
The <math>r_1</math> chords of the 16-cell form a Petrie polygon {8/1} which zig-zags back and forth, in the left and right rotational directions, between two completely orthogonal great squares formed by <math>r_2</math> chords.
The <math>r_2</math> chords of the 16-cell form an ''edge polygon'' {8/2}=2{4}. The two completely orthogonal great squares lie parallel and perpendicular to each other. A ''simple'' rotation of the 16-cell in ''one'' of those two square central planes rotates that square like a wheel, while the other square does not move.{{Efn|name=simple rotations}} The four vertices of the rotating square orbit on a great circle in the plane.
The <math>r_3</math> chords of the 16-cell form a circular helix, visible as a blue {8/3} octagram in the orthogonal projection. A ''double'' rotation of the 16-cell, in both of two completely orthogonal invariant <math>r_2</math> square planes at once by equal angles, moves the eight vertices along the circular helix over <math>r_3</math> chords. The vertex motion is a [[w:Geodesic|geodesic]] circle orbit on the 3-sphere of a special kind: it does not lie in a central plane, its [[w:Winding_number|winding number]] is not 1 (it is 3 in this case), its circumference is not <math>2\pi</math> (it is <math>6\pi</math> in this case), and it moves in either a left or right handed circular spiral. We shall refer to such a chiral circle orbit as an ''isocline'', and to the skew polygram of its rotational chords as a ''Clifford polygon''.
The 16-cell is the simplest possible frame in which to [[16-cell#Rotations|observe 4-dimensional rotations]] because its characteristic rotations feature a single pair of invariant rotation planes. In the 16-cell an isoclinic rotation by 90° in any pair of invariant completely orthogonal square central planes takes every great square to its completely orthogonal great square in a twisting displacement, as the invariant planes tilt sideways 90° into each other's plane while rotating 90° internally. All the vertices move at once along the same circular helix geodesic isocline of <math>r_3</math> chords, displaced 90° in 8 orthogonal directions, and the rigid 16-cell assumes a new orientation in 4-space. When the 90° isoclinic rotation is continued in the same rotational direction through an additional 90°, each vertex is again displaced 90°, but from the new orientation in a direction orthogonal to its first 90° displacement. The rotational curve over each 90° <math>r_3</math> chord makes three 45° turns. In 360° of isoclinic rotation over four <math>r_3</math> chords, each vertex makes twelve 45° turns and reaches its antipodal position.
The trajectory of each vertex over each 90° isoclinic rotational displacement is a one-eighth segment of its geodesic orbit. Its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over eight <math>r_3</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane twice, over the four <math>r_2</math> edges of a great square in one of the two moving invariant rotation planes. In the course of a 720° isoclinic revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 16-cell returns to its original orientation.
We shall refer to this isoclinic rotation as the ''great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell'', and note once again that it is Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_3</math> {8/3} star polygon, which constructs <math>1/r_3</math>.
== The 8-cell tesseract ==
The long diameter of the unit-edge [[W:Hypercube|hypercube]] of dimension <math>n</math> is <math>\sqrt{n}</math>, so the unit-edge [[w:Tesseract|4-hypercube, the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract,]] has chords:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math>
Uniquely in its 4-dimensional case, the hypercube's edge length equals its radius, like the hexagon. We call such polytopes ''radially equilateral'', because they can be constructed from equilateral triangles which meet at their center, each contributing two radii and an edge. The [[w:Cuboctahedron|cuboctahedron]] and the 24-cell are also radially equilateral.
[[File:8-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation about a plane in 4-space.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The stationary plane bisects the figure from front-left to back-right and top to bottom.]]
The [[W:Tesseract|tesseract]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 16 vertices, 32 edges, 24 square faces, and 8 cube cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cube.
The 16-point tesseract is the convex hull of a compound of two 8-point 16-cells, in exact dimensional analogy to the way the 8-point cube is the convex hull of a [[W:Stellated octahedron|compound of two 4-point regular tetrahedrons]]. The [[W:Demihypercube|demihypercubes]] occupy alternate vertices of the hypercubes. The diagonals of the square faces of the unit-edge, unit-radius tesseract are the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges of two unit-radius 16-cells, also the edges of the square central planes.
We can rotate the tesseract isoclinically the way we rotated the 16-cell, by 90° in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on both alternate-position 16-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cell. The two skew {8/3} octagram Clifford polygons lie on two disjoint parallel isoclines of the same chirality, of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chords. They form a circular double helix which intersects each vertex of the tesseract once. The double helix is an 8-rung ladder twisted around 3 times, and bent into a circle in the fourth dimension with its ends joined. Each rung is a <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chord.
The tesseract is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 16-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew octagon, but the tesseract is a construct of 4 Petrie octagons with disjoint sets of 8 tesseract edges each. We can construct the tesseract by skewing two planar octagons. Because the tesseract is radially equilateral (unlike the 16-cell), we use two octagons of unit-edge length to build the unit-radius tesseract. To start we embed the planar octagons in 4-space at the same point and make them completely orthogonal. Then we skew each planar octagon into a cube, so we have a compound of two completely orthogonal cubes, provided we skewed them both in the same direction. The 16 vertices will be the vertices of a tesseract with half its 32 edges missing.
Because the tesseract contains two 16-cells in alternate positions it has two sets of 6 orthogonal square central planes. Two angles are required to specify the relationship between two planes in 4-space. Pairs of square central planes within each 16-cell are 90° apart in one angle, and either 0° or 90° apart in the other angle. They are 90° apart in both angles if and only if they are completely orthogonal planes, 90° apart by isoclinic rotation, with no vertices in common and their corresponding pairs of vertices 180° apart. Otherwise they are 0° apart in one of the angles, 90° apart by simple rotation, and they intersect in one axis and lie in a common 3-dimensional hyperplane.{{Efn|A double rotation in which one of the two angles of rotation is 0°, so that one of the completely orthogonal invariant planes does not rotate, is called a simple rotation. Ordinary rotations observed in a 3-dimensional space are simple rotations.|name=simple rotations}}
A pair of square central planes from alternate-position 16-cells are 60° apart by isoclinic rotation, with their corresponding pairs of vertices 120° apart. The planes are not orthogonal or parallel, so they intersect in a line somewhere, but they have no vertices in common, they have no 3-dimensional hyperplane in common, and they cannot reach each other by simple rotation. Such pairs of objects are called [[W:Clifford parallel|Clifford parallel]] because all their corresponding pairs of vertices are the same distance apart, although they are not parallel in the usual sense, because they have a common center. Not only the alternate-position 16-cells' corresponding square central planes, but also the 16-cells themselves, are Clifford parallel objects. More generally, multiple disjoint instances of a 4-polytope which compound to make a larger 4-polytope are Clifford parallel objects.
== The 24-cell ==
[[File:24-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the radially equilateral 24-cell, showing its 3 great circle polygons and its 4 chord lengths.]]
In 2-space we have the radially equilateral 6-point hexagon. In 3-space we have the radially equilateral 12-point cuboctahedron, with 4 hexagon central planes. In 4-space we have the radially equilateral 24-point 24-cell, with 12 cuboctahedron central hyperplanes and 16 hexagon central planes.
The [[24-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small>. It has 24 vertices, 96 edges, 96 equilateral triangle faces, and 24 octahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cuboctahedron.
The 24-cell has the same chord set as the 4-hypercube tesseract:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math>
[[Image:24-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 24-point 24-cell <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 24 octahedra is visible.]]
The 24-cell is [[W:Dual polytope|self-dual]], like the regular polygons and regular simplexes. It is the maximal regular construct of triangles and squares (with no pentagons). It is the convex hull of a compound of three disjoint 8-point 16-cells, rotated 60° isoclinically with respect to each other. Each of the three pairs of 16-cells is a tesseract. Each 24-cell edge is also a tesseract edge. The corresponding vertices of two 16-cells or two tesseracts are 120° apart by a <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chord. Each tesseract has 8 cube cells, and each cube has four <math>\sqrt{3}</math> long diameters. The <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords joining the corresponding vertices of two tesseracts belong to the third tesseract as cell long diameters.
The 24-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular dodecagon {12}. The unit-radius planar {12}-gon has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}-1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.518,r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}+1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.932,r_6=\sqrt{4}</math>
Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that:
:<math>r_5-r_3+r_1+r_1-r_3=1/r_5</math>
when <math>r_1=1</math>. In the system of unit-radius coordinates <math>r_1=1/r_5</math>. The procedure rotates counterclockwise over five <math>r_5</math> chords of a {12/5} dodecagram.
The <math>r_1</math> and <math>r_5</math> chords of the planar dodecagon do not occur in the 24-cell, which is a construct of eight skew dodecagons with disjoint sets of twelve <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges each. In the skew dodecagons the chord lengths are:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\sqrt{3},r_6=\sqrt{4}</math>
Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation.
The <math>r_1</math> <small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small> chords form 8 Petrie dodecagons which zig-zag back and forth, in the left and right rotational directions, between two Clifford parallel great hexagons formed by <math>r_2</math> chords. The 8 Petrie dodecagons can be divided four ways into 2 disjoint Petrie dodecagons {24/2}=2{12}.
The <math>r_2</math> <small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small> chords form 16 great hexagons, which can be divided four ways into 4 Clifford parallel great hexagons {24/4}=4{6}.
The <math>r_3</math> <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chords form 18 great squares, which can be divided three ways into 6 Clifford parallel great squares {24/6}=6{4}, including one pair of completely orthogonal great squares from each of the three 16-cells.
The <math>r_4</math> <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords form 32 great triangles, which can be divided four ways into 8 disjoint great triangles {24/8}=8{3} inscribed in 4 Clifford parallel great hexagons.
The <math>r_5</math> <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords form 8 circular helix Clifford polygons, visible as a green {12/5} dodecagram in the orthogonal projection. An isoclinic rotation of the 24-cell in 4 invariant <math>r_2</math> hexagon planes moves the vertices along 2 Clifford parallel circular isoclines {24/2}=2{12/5} over <math>r_5</math> chords.
[[File:dodecagon24cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of half a 24-cell to the [[24-cell#Geodesics|F<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only one Petrie dodecagon {12} of the 24-cell is shown. In a unit-radius 24-cell, all black lines are 24-cell edges of unit length, also tesseract edges. The two disjoint hexagons lie in Clifford parallel central planes. Blue chords are <math>\sqrt{2}</math> 16-cell edges of Clifford parallel great squares, also isocline chords in great square rotations. Green chords are <math>\sqrt{3}</math> distances between corresponding vertices of two 16-cells, also isocline chords in great hexagon rotations. The green {12/5} dodecagram is a Clifford polygon.]]
[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} shows three octagram isoclines of <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math> </small>chords in the 24-cell]]
We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 6 Clifford parallel invariant great square planes containing 16-cell edges, in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on all three 16-cells. In 720° each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cells. The rotational curve over each 90° <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chord makes three 45° turns. Three Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chords form a circular triple helix {24/9}=3{8/3} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. The triple helix is an 8-step circular staircase that twists around 3 times, and is bent into a torus in the fourth dimension. Each staircase step is a great triangle of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords.
[[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} shows 2 dodecagram isoclines of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords in the 24-cell]]We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 4 Clifford parallel invariant great hexagon planes containing 24-cell edges, over <math>r_{5}</math> isocline chords. This is the ''great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell'', also Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_5</math> {12/5} star polygon which constructs <math>1/r_5</math>. A complete 24-cell great circle edge plane revolution requires 720° like a complete 16-cell great circle edge plane revolution, but it is completed in 12 isoclinic displacements of 60° each rather than 8 isoclinic displacements of 90° each. An isoclinic rotation by 60° in an invariant central plane containing a 24-cell edge takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon in a twisting displacement, as 4 invariant great hexagon planes tilt sideways 60° while rotating 60° internally. It also takes every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. All 24 vertices move at once on Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 120° in different directions. The trajectory of each vertex over each 60° rotational displacement is a one-twelfth segment of its geodesic orbit. Its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space over 12 <math>r_5</math> <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane 5 times in a moving invariant rotation plane. The rotational curve over each <math>r_5</math> 120° chord makes five 30° turns. Two Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> form a circular double helix {24/10}=2{12/5} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 24-cell returns to its original orientation.
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |6 distinct 180° chord pairs make 6 distinct isoclinic rotations
|-
! colspan="3" |Short chords
!Invariant planes
! colspan="3" |Long chords
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_1</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_24.svg|100px]]<br>{24/1}={24}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-11.svg|100px]]<br>{24/11}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{11}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|165°
|15°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_2</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/2}=2{12}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_4(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/4}=4{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,5).svg|100px]]<br>{24/10}=2{12/5}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{10}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|150°
|30°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_3</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/3}=3{8}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|100px]]<br>{24/9}=3{8/3}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{9}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|135°
|45°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_4</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_4(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/4}=4{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_12(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/12}=12{2}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_8(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/8}=8{3}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{8}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|120°
|60°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_5</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-5.svg|100px]]<br>{24/5}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-7.svg|100px]]<br>{24/7}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{7}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|105°
|75°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_6</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{6}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|90°
|90°
|}
By examining the chords <math>r_i</math> of the 24-cell's Petrie {12}-gon we have found two distinct isoclinic rotations, the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell and the great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell. If we examine the chords <math>t_i</math> of the 24-cell's {24}-gon we find these, and also four other distinct isoclinic rotations.
Each row of the table describes a distinct isoclinic rotation of the 24-cell characterized by a pair of chords whose arc-lengths sum to 180°. Each chord lies in a central plane which is either a great square or a great hexagon. Each short chord plane is completely orthogonal to a corresponding long chord plane. These central planes are not to be confused with the invariant planes of the rotation, which intersect 0, 2, 4, or 6 vertices of the 24-cell as illustrated in the center column of each row.
The short chord and long chord each have their characteristic {24/''n''}-gon, which correspond as projections of the 24-cell to completely orthogonal planes. Their projection viewpoints look straight down orthogonal cylinders which are actually [[w:SO(4)#Visualization_of_4D_rotations|bent into tori in 4-space]].
Each {24/''n''}-gon forms ''n'' disjoint Clifford parallel regular polygons. Polygons with {2}, {3}, {4} or {6} sides lie in a central plane, and all others lie skew in 4-space. The rotational angle between successive short chords in 4-space and the rotational angle between successive long chords in 4-space sum to 180°. Those angles distinguish distinct chords <math>t_i</math> which are the same length.
Each isoclinic rotation takes two chiral forms. There is a ''right rotation'' and a ''left rotation'' for each row of the table. The right and left rotations are enantiomorphous reflections of each other like a pair of clasped hands, with non-congruent vertex position sequences. The right rotation takes Clifford parallel short chord polygons to each other, while the long chord polygons remain stationary in 4-space as vertices circle over them. In the left rotation the roles of the short chord polygon and the long chord polygon are reversed: the short chord polygons remain stationary in 4-space as vertices circle over them, as the rotation takes Clifford parallel long chord polygons to each other.
{{Clear}}
== The 600-cell ==
[[Image:600-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 120-point 600-cell <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2011}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 600 tetrahedra is visible. Invisible in this rendering are 25 inscribed instances of the 24-cell (above), which occur in the 600-cell as interior boundary envelopes.]]
The [[600-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small>. It has 120 vertices, 720 edges, 1200 equilateral triangle faces, and 600 tetrahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the icosahedron.
The 600-cell rounds out the 24-cell by adding 96 more vertices (four more disjoint 24-cells) between the 24-cell's existing 24 vertices, in effect adding twenty-four more distinct 24-cells inscribed in the 600-cell. The new surface thus formed is a honeycomb of smaller, more numerous cells: tetrahedra of edge length <math>\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> instead of octahedra of edge length <math>\sqrt{1}</math>. It encloses the <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges of the 24-cells, which become invisible interior chords in the 600-cell, like the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords.
Since the tetrahedra are made of shorter triangle edges than the octahedra (by a factor of <math>\phi^{-1}</math> the inverse golden ratio), the 600-cell is not radially equilateral like the 24-cell and the tesseract. Like them it is radially triangular in a special way, but one in which [[w:Golden_triangle_(mathematics)|golden triangles]] rather than equilateral triangles meet at the center.
In 2-space we have the ''radially golden'' [[W:Decagon#The golden ratio in decagon|regular decagon]]. In 3-space we have the radially golden 30-point [[W:icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]], with 6 decagon central planes. In 4-space we have the radially golden 120-point 600-cell, with 60 icosidodecahedron central hyperplanes and 72 decagon central planes.
The 600-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular [[w:Triacontagon|triacontagon {30}]]. The unit-radius planar {30}-gon has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.209</math>
:<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.416</math>
:<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.813</math>
:<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math>
:<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.338</math>
:<math>r_8=2 \cos (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.486</math>
:<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math>
:<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{11}=2 \cos (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.827</math>
:<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{13}=2 \cos (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.956</math>
:<math>r_{14}=2 \cos (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.989</math>
:<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math>
Only the chord lengths <math>r_3</math>, <math>r_5</math>, <math>r_6</math>, <math>\sqrt{2}</math>, <math>r_9</math>, <math>r_{10}</math>, <math>r_{12}</math>, <math>r_{15}</math> occur in the 600-cell, which is a construct of 24 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>r_3</math>, six of which intersect in each icosahedral vertex figure. In the skew {30}-gons the chord lengths are:
[[File:600-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the 600-cell, showing its 5 regular great circle polygons and its 8 chord lengths with angles of arc. The golden ratio governs the fractional roots of every other chord, and the radial golden triangles which meet at the center.|400x400px]]
:<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math>
:<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math>
:<math>r_8=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math>
:<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math>
:<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{11}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{13}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{14}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math>
Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation.
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |15 chords (4 distinct 180° pairs) make 4 distinct section polyhedra
|-
! colspan="3" |Short chords
! Section
! colspan="3" |Long chords
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_0</math>
|0°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2}
|180°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{15}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0}}
|{{radic|4}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0
|2
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|180°
|0°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_1</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14}=2{15/7}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{14}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|168°
|12°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_2</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{13}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|156°
|24°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_3</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V1 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{12}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|144°
|36°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_4</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{11}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|132°
|48°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_5</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V2 dodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Dodecahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{10}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|120°
|60°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{6}</math>
|72°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V3 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3}
|108°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{9}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|1.382~}}
|{{radic|2.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|1.176~
|1.618~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|108°
|72°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{7}</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V4 icosidodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosidodecahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{8}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|96°
|84°
|}
The list of 600-cell chords <math>r_{i}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 8 rows with a pair of 180° complements in each row. The short chord and long chord each have their characteristic {30/n}-gon. Each row identifies a distinct isoclinic rotation of the 600-cell.
Each distinct pair of complementary chord lengths is identified with a distinct [[w:600-cell#Polyhedral sections|polyhedral section of the 600-cell]] beginning with a vertex. In spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]], every vertex is the center of a set of 7 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>\phi^{-1}</math> is a icosahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>\sqrt{2}</math> is an [[W:Icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]] central section bisecting the 600-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>\sqrt{2}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal icosahedron vertex figure at distance <math>\sqrt{2+\phi}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 7 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section).
[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>]]
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on 15 disjoint 16-cells. Each 90° displacement takes 15 pairs of completely orthogonal invariant great square planes to each other. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. The rotational curve over each 90° chord makes three 45° turns. Fifteen Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> form a circular fibration of 15 twisted parallel strands 5{24/9}=15{8/3} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great square planes, which has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. This ''great square rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' takes place over <math>r_7</math> edge chords and <math>r_8</math> isocline chords. The {30/7} edge polygon is a skew helix of circumference <math>14\pi</math> with each <math>r_7</math> edge belonging to a distinct great square. The four {30/7} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. Each 90° displacement takes every 16-cell to another 16-cell. The vertices of the invariant great squares each make seven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/7} edge makes seven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/7} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The {30/8}=2{15/4} Clifford polygon is a compound of two skew {15/4} pentadecagrams of circumference <math>16\pi</math> with each <math>r_8</math> isocline chord belonging to a distinct 16-cell. The four {30/8} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/8} isocline chord makes eight 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/8} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
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[[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> ]]
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell, over <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords, with the same effect on 5 disjoint 24-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions of its 24-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. Ten Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> form a circular fibration of ten twisted parallel strands 5{24/10}=10{12/5} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great hexagon planes, over <math>r_{4}=\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>r_{11}=\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords This ''great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. Its {30/11} Clifford polygon is a skew helix where each <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord is the <math>\sqrt{3}</math> diagonal of a great hexagon of a distinct 24-cell. The vertices of the invariant great hexagons of this rotation each make eleven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord makes eleven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/11} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>22\pi</math> over <math>r_{11}</math> chords form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in 12 Clifford parallel invariant decagon central planes containing its 36° <math>r_{3}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{12}</math> isocline chords. This ''great pentagon rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' has period 5 and takes disjoint 24-cells to each other. The rotational curve over each <math>r_{12}</math> chord of its {5/2} Clifford polygon makes twelve 12° turns. 24 Clifford parallel {5/2} pentagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>4\pi</math> over five <math>r_{12}</math> chords form a circular fibration of 24 twisted parallel strands 4{30/12}=24{5/2} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The rotation of the 600-cell by 36° in any invariant decagon central plane takes every great decagon to a Clifford parallel great decagon in a twisting displacement, as all the central planes tilt sideways 36° while rotating 36° internally. It also takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon, and every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. The 24-cells revolve within the 600-cell, as the 16-cells revolve within the 24-cells. All 120 vertices move at once on four Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 144° in different directions.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great decagon planes containing its 36° <math>r_{2}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chords. This rotation has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. The rotational curve over each 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chord makes thirteen 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/13} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>26\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
{{Clear}}
== Finally the 120-cell ==
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |30 chords (15 180° pairs) make 15 distinct section polyhedra
|-
! colspan="3" |Short chords
! Section
! colspan="3" |Long chords
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_0</math>
|0°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2}
|180°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{30}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0}}
|{{radic|4}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0
|2
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|180°
|0°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_1</math>
|15.5~°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14}
|164.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{29}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0.073~}}
|{{radic|3.927~}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0.270~
|1.982~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|168°
|12°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_2</math>
|25.2~°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13}
|154.8~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{28}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.191~}}
|{{radic|3.809~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.437~
|1.952~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|156°
|24°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_3</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{27}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|144°
|36°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_4</math>
|41.4~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|138.6~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{26}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.5}}
|{{radic|3.5}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.707~
|1.871~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|138°
|42°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_5</math>
|44.5~°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11}
|135.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{25}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0.573~}}
|{{radic|3.427~}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0.757~
|1.851~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|132°
|48°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_6</math>
|49.1~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|130.9~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{24}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.691~}}
|{{radic|3.309~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.831~
|1.819~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|128°
|52°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_7</math>
|56°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|124°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{23}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.882~}}
|{{radic|3.118~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.939~
|1.766~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|124°
|56°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_8</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{22}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|120°
|60°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_9</math>
|66.1~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|113.9~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{21}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1.191~}}
|{{radic|2.809~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1.091~
|1.676~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|116°
|64°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{10}</math>
|69.8~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|110.2~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{20}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1.309~}}
|{{radic|2.691~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1.144~
|1.640~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|112°
|68°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{11}</math>
|72°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3}
|108°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{19}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|1.382~}}
|{{radic|2.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|1.176~
|1.618~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|108°
|72°
|- style="background: palegreen; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{12}</math>
|75.5~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4}
|104.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{18}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1.5}}
|{{radic|2.5}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1.224~
|1.581~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|96°
|84°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{13}</math>
|81.1~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|98.9~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{17}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1.691~}}
|{{radic|2.309~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1.300~
|1.520~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|°
|°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{14}</math>
|84.5~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|95.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{16}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.809~}}
|{{radic|2.191~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1.345~
|1.480~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|°
|°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{15}</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{15}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|90°
|90°
|}
The [[120-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 600 vertices, 1200 edges, 720 pentagon faces, and 120 dodecahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the dodecahedron.
The [[User:Dc.samizdat/Golden chords of the 120-cell#Thirty distinguished distances|list of thirty 120-cell chords]] <math>c_{t}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 16 rows and 2 columns with a pair of 180° complements in each row. This table first appears in [[w:Regular_Polytopes_(book)|''Regular Polytopes'']] (1947),{{Sfn|Coxeter|1973|loc=Table V(v): Simplified sections of {5,3,3} beginning with a vertex|pp=300-301}} where Coxeter identified each row with a distinct [[w:120-cell#Concentric_hulls|polyhedral section of the 120-cell]] beginning with a vertex. He showed that in spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] every vertex is the center of a set of 29 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>c_1</math> is a tetrahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>c_{15}</math> is a central section bisecting the 120-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>c_{15}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal tetrahedron vertex figure at distance <math>c_{29}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 29 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section). Each section also lies completely orthogonal to a congruent section.
Only 8 of the 30 chords in the table occur in the 600-cell. The 120-cell's additional chords arise originally from the regular 5-cell 4-simplex, in its interaction with the other regular 4-polytopes that compound to make the 120-cell. Since all those polytopes except the 5-cell occur in the 600-cell, and the 600-cell and the 120-cell have the same symmetry group, the 5-cell's symmetry group is the entirety of what's new in the 120-cell.
The 120-cell is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 600-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew triacontagon {30}, but the 120-cell is a construct of 40 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>c_1</math>, two of which intersect in each tetrahedral vertex figure.
...
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== Conclusions ==
Fontaine and Hurley's discovery is more than a geometric formula for the reciprocal of a regular ''n''-polygon diagonal. It also yields the discrete sequence of isocline chords of the characteristic isoclinic rotation of a ''d''-dimensional polytope. The characteristic rotational chord sequence of the ''d''-polytope can be represented geometrically in two dimensions on a distinct star polygon, but it lies on a geodesic circle through ''d''-dimensional space. Fontaine and Hurley discovered the geodesic topology of polytopes generally. Their procedure will reveal the geodesics of arbitrary non-uniform polytopes, since it can be applied to a polytope of any dimensionality and irregularity, by first fitting the polytope to the smallest regular polygon whose chords include its chords. [If what is meant by this is its Petrie polygon, it is not quite necessary or possible with respect to the planar polygon chords, e.g. the planar Petrie polygon of the 600-cell does not contain the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chord. But perhaps it would work if the fit is to the smallest regular skew polygon in the ''d''-space.]
The discovery of a chordal construction for discrete isoclinic rotations generally closes the circuit on Kappraff and Adamson's discovery of a rotational connection between dynamical systems, Steinbach's golden fields, and Coxeter's Euclidean geometry of reflections in ''n'' dimensions. Application of the Fontaine and Hurley procedure to the 120-cell demonstrates why the connection exists: because polytope sequences generally, from Steinbach's golden chord sequences in polygons, to sequences of star polygons in isoclinic rotations, to subsumption relations in the sequence of regular 4-polytopes, arise as expressions of the reflections and rotations of distinct Coxeter symmetry groups, when those various groups interact.
== Appendix: Sequence of regular 4-polytopes ==
{{Regular convex 4-polytopes|wiki=W:|columns=7}}
== Notes ==
{{Notelist}}
== Citations ==
{{Reflist}}
== References ==
{{Refbegin}}
* {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=1997 | title=Golden fields: A case for the Heptagon | journal=Mathematics Magazine | volume=70 | issue=Feb 1997 | pages=22–31 | doi=10.1080/0025570X.1997.11996494 | jstor=2691048 | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|1997}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=2000 | title=Sections Beyond Golden| journal=Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music and Science | issue=2000 | pages=35-44 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2000/bridges2000-35.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|2000}}}}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Jablan | first2=Slavik | last3=Adamson | first3=Gary | last4=Sazdanovich | first4=Radmila | year=2004 | title=Golden Fields, Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, and Chaotic Matrices | journal=Forma | volume=19 | pages=367-387 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2005/bridges2005-369.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff, Jablan, Adamson & Sazdanovich|2004}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Adamson | first2=Gary | year=2004 | title=Polygons and Chaos | journal=Dynamical Systems and Geometric Theories | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2001/bridges2001-67.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff & Adamson|2004}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Fontaine | first1=Anne | last2=Hurley | first2=Susan | year=2006 | title=Proof by Picture: Products and Reciprocals of Diagonal Length Ratios in the Regular Polygon | journal=Forum Geometricorum | volume=6 | pages=97-101 | url=https://scispace.com/pdf/proof-by-picture-products-and-reciprocals-of-diagonal-length-1aian8mgp9.pdf }}
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= Golden chords of the 120-cell =
{{align|center|David Brooks Christie}}
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{{align|center|Draft in progress}}
{{align|center|January 2026 - June 2026}}
<blockquote>Steinbach discovered the formula for the ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. Fontaine and Hurley extended this result, discovering a formula for the reciprocal of a regular polygon chord derived geometrically from the chord's star polygon. We observe that these findings in plane geometry apply more generally, to polytopes of any dimensionality. Fontaine and Hurley's geometric procedure for finding the reciprocals of the chords of a regular polygon from their star polygons also finds the rotational geodesics of any polytope of any dimensionality.</blockquote>
== Introduction ==
Steinbach discovered the Diagonal Product Formula and the Golden Fields family of ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. He showed how this family extends beyond the pentagon {5} with its well-known golden bisection proportional to 𝜙, finding that the heptagon {7} has an analogous trisection, the nonagon {9} has an analogous quadrasection, and the hendecagon {11} has an analogous pentasection, an extended family of golden proportions with quasiperiodic properties.
Kappraff and Adamson extended these findings in plane geometry to a theory of Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, showing that the Golden Fields not only do not end with the hendecagon, they form an infinite number of periodic trajectories when operated on by the Mandelbrot operator. They found a relation between the edges of star polygons and dynamical systems in the state of chaos, revealing a connection between chaos theory, number, and rotations in Coxeter Euclidean geometry.
Fontaine and Hurley examined Steinbach's finding that the length of each chord of a regular polygon is both the product of two chords and the sum of a set of smaller chords, so that in rotations to add is to multiply. They illustrated Steinbach's sets of additive chords lying parallel to each other in the plane (pointing in the same direction), and by applying Steinbach's formula more generally they found another summation relation of signed parallel chords (pointing in opposite directions) which relates each chord length to its reciprocal, and relates the summation to a distinct star polygon rotation.
We examine these remarkable findings (which stem from study of the chords of humble regular polygons) in higher-dimensional spaces, specifically in the chords, polygons and rotations of the [[120-cell]], the largest four-dimensional regular convex polytope.
== Visualizing the 120-cell ==
{| class="wikitable floatright" width="400"
|style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:120-cell.gif|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point 120-cell <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small> performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]].{{Sfn|Hise|2011|loc=File:120-cell.gif|ps=; "Created by Jason Hise with Maya and Macromedia Fireworks. A 3D projection of a 120-cell performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]]."}} In this simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges are shown; its 29 interior chords are not rendered. Therefore even though it is translucent, only its outer surface is visible. The complex interior parts of the 120-cell, all its inscribed 5-cells, 16-cells, 8-cells, 24-cells, 600-cells and its much larger inventory of polyhedra, are completely invisible in this view, as none of their edges are rendered at all.
|style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:Ortho solid 016-uniform polychoron p33-t0.png|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point [[W:Great grand stellated 120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] <small><math>\{\tfrac{5}{2},3,3\}</math></small>.{{Sfn|Ruen: Great grand stellated 120-cell|2007}} The 120-cell is its convex hull. The projection to the left renders only the 120-cell's shortest chord, its 1200 edges. The projection above also renders only one of the 120-cell's 30 chords, the edges of its 120 inscribed regular 5-cells. The 120-cell itself (the convex hull) is invisible in this view, as its edges are not rendered.
|}
[[120-cell#Geometry|The 120-cell is the maximally complex regular 4-polytope]], containing inscribed instances of every regular 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-polytope, except the regular polygons of more than {15} sides.
The 120-cell is the convex hull of a regular [[120-cell#Relationships among interior polytopes|compound of each of the 6 regular convex 4-polytopes]]. They are the [[5-cell|5-point (5-cell) 4-simplex]], the [[16-cell|8-point (16-cell) 4-orthoplex]], the [[W:Tesseract|16-point (8-cell) tesseract]], the [[24-cell|24-point (24-cell)]], the [[600-cell|120-point (600-cell)]], and the [[120-cell|600-point (120-cell)]]. The 120-cell is the convex hull of a compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells, of 75 disjoint 16-cells, of 25 disjoint 24-cells, and of 5 disjoint 600-cells.
The 120-cell contains an even larger inventory of irregular polytopes, created by the intersection of multiple instances of these component regular 4-polytopes. Many are quite unexpected, because they do not occur as components of any regular polytope smaller than the 120-cell. As just one example among the [[120-cell#Concentric hulls|sections of the 120-cell]], there is an irregular 24-point polyhedron with 16 triangle faces and 4 nonagon {9} faces.{{Sfn|Moxness|}}
Most renderings of the 120-cell, like the rotating projection here, only illustrate its outer surface, which is a honeycomb of face-bonded dodecahedral cells. Only the objects in its 3-dimensional surface are rendered, namely the 120 dodecahedra, their pentagon faces, and their edges. Although the 120-cell has chords of 30 distinct lengths, in this kind of simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges (its shortest chord) are shown. Its 29 interior chords, the edges of objects in the interior of the 120-cell, are not rendered, so interior objects are not visible at all.
Visualizing the complete interior of the 600-vertex 120-cell in a single image is impractical because of its complexity. Only four 120-cell edges are incident at each vertex, but [[120-cell#Chords|600 chords (of all 30 lengths)]] are incident at ''each'' vertex.
== Compounds in the 120-cell ==
The 8-point (16-cell), not the 5-point (5-cell) 4-simplex, is the smallest building block; it compounds to every larger regular 4-polytope. The 5-point (5-cell) does compound to the 600-point (120-cell), but it does not fit into any smaller regular 4-polytope.
The 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 2 in the 16-point (8-cell), and by 3 in the 24-point (24-cell). The 16-point (8-cell) compounds in the 24-point (24-cell) by 3 non-disjoint instances of itself, with each of the 24 vertices shared by two 16-point (8-cells). The 24-point (24-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell), and the 120-point (600-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell).
The 24-point (24-cell) also compounds by 5<sup>2</sup> non-disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell); it compounds in 5 disjoint instances of itself, 10 (not 5) different ways. Whichever set of 5 disjoint 24-point (24-cells) are assembled, the resulting 120-point (600-cell) contains 25 distinct 24-point (24-cells), not just 5 (or 10). Consequently 15 disjoint 8-point (16-cells) will construct a 120-point (600-cell), which contains 75 distinct 8-point (16-cells).
The 600-point (120-cell) is 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), just 2 different ways (not 5 or 10 ways), so it is 10 distinct 120-point (600-cells). Consequently the 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 3 times 5<sup>2</sup> (75) disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell), which contains 3<sup>2</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (225) distinct instances of the 24-point (24-cell), and 3<sup>3</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (675) distinct instances of the 8-point (16-cell).
These facts were discovered painstakingly by various researchers, and no one has found a general rule governing subsumption relations among regular polytopes. The reasons for some of their numeric incidence relations are far from obvious. [[W:Pieter Hendrik Schoute|Schoute]] was the first to see that the 120-point (600-cell) is a compound of 5 24-point (24-cells) ''10 different ways'', and after he saw it a hundred years lapsed until Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne proved his result, and showed why.{{Sfn|Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne|2020|loc=''The geometry of H4 polytopes''}}
So much for the compounds of 16-cells. The 120-cell is also the convex hull of the compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells. That stellated compound (without its convex hull of 120-cell edges) is the [[w:Great_grand_stellated_120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] illustrated above, the final regular [[W:Stellation|stellation]] of the 120-cell, and the only [[W:Schläfli-Hess polychoron|regular star 4-polytope]] to have the 120-cell for its convex hull. The edges of the great grand stellated 120-cell are <math>\phi^6</math> as long as those of its 120-cell [[W:List of polyhedral stellations#Stellation process|stellation core]] deep inside.
The compound of 120 disjoint 5-point (5-cells) can be seen to be equivalent to the compound of 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), as follows. Beginning with a single 120-point (600-cell), expand each vertex into a regular 5-cell, by adding 4 new equidistant vertices, such that the 5 vertices form a regular 5-cell inscribed in the 3-sphere. The 120 5-cells are disjoint, and the 600 vertices form 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells): a 120-cell.
== Thirty distinguished distances ==
The 30 numbers listed in the table are all-important in Euclidean geometry. A case can be made on symmetry grounds that their squares are the 30 most important numbers between 0 and 4. The 30 rows of the table are the 30 distinct [[120-cell#Geodesic rectangles|chord lengths of the unit-radius 120-cell]], the largest regular convex 4-polytope. Since the 120-cell subsumes all smaller regular polytopes, its 30 chords are the complete chord set of all the regular polytopes that can be constructed in the first four dimensions of Euclidean space, except for regular polygons of more than 15 sides.
{| class="wikitable" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
!rowspan=2|<math>c_t</math>
!rowspan=2|arc
!rowspan=2|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{n}\right\}</math></small>
!rowspan=2|<math>\left\{p\right\}</math>
!rowspan=2|<small><math>m\left\{\frac{k}{d}\right\}</math></small>
!rowspan=2|Steinbach roots
!colspan=7|Chord lengths of the unit 120-cell
|-
!colspan=5|unit-radius length <math>c_t</math>
!colspan=2|unit-edge length <math>c_t/c_1</math><br>in 120-cell of radius <math>c_8=\sqrt{2}\phi^2</math>
|-
|<small><math>c_{1,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>15.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>c_{4,1}-c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.270091</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi ^2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^4}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.072949}</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1.</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>25.2{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>2 \left\{15\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(c_{18,1}-c_{4,1}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{3-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.437016</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.190983}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi </math></small>
|<small><math>1.61803</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{3,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>36{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{10\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>3 \left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right) c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>0.618034</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.381966}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>2.28825</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>41.4{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.707107</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.61803</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{5,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>44.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{4}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>2 \left\{\frac{15}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.756934</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}}{\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.572949}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>2.80252</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{6,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>49.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{17}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.831254</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5}}{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.690983}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>3.07768</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{7,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>56.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.93913</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.881966}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>3.47709</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>60{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1.</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>3.70246</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{9,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>66.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{2 \phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.09132</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.19098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>4.04057</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{10,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>69.8{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2 \sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.14412</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\phi }{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^2}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>4.23607</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{11,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>72{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{6}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.17557</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.38197}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \sqrt{3-\phi } \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.3525</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{12,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>75.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{24}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.22474</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.53457</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{13,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>81.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.30038</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.69098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.8146</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{14,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>84.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{9}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi } c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{1+\sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.345</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi }}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5} \phi }{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>4.9798</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{15,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>90.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.41421</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>5.23607</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{16,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>95.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{29}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.4802</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.19098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>5.48037</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{17,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>98.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{31}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.51954</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(7+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>5.62605</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{18,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>104.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{8}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{4}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.58114</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{5} \sqrt{\phi ^4}</math></small>
|<small><math>5.8541</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{19,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>108.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{9}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>c_{3,1}+c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>1.61803</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi </math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1+\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.61803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>5.9907</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{20,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>110.2{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.64042</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.69098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\phi ^2}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.07359</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{21,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>113.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{19}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.67601</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\chi }{\phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.20537</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{22,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>120{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{10}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.73205</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{6} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>6.41285</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{23,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>124.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{41}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }+\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.7658</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.11803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.53779</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{24,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>130.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.81907</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\sqrt{5}}{\phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.73503</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{25,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>135.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.85123</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\phi ^2}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^4}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.42705}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^4</math></small>
|<small><math>6.8541</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{26,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>138.6{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{12}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.87083</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{7} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>6.92667</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{27,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>144{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{12}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{5}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.90211</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\phi +2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2+\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.61803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{2 \phi +4}</math></small>
|<small><math>7.0425</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{28,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>154.8{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.95167</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>7.22598</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{29,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>164.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{14}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi c_{12,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>1.98168</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3 \phi ^2}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.92705}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>7.33708</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{30,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>180{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{15}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.</math></small>
|<small><math>2</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4.}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 \sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>7.40492</math></small>
|-
|rowspan=4 colspan=6|
|rowspan=4 colspan=4|
<small><math>\phi</math></small> is the golden ratio:<br>
<small><math>\phi ^2-\phi -1=0</math></small><br>
<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }+1=\phi</math></small>, and: <small><math>\phi+1=\phi^2</math></small><br>
<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }::1::\phi ::\phi ^2</math></small><br>
<small><math>1/\phi</math></small> and <small><math>\phi</math></small> are the golden sections of <small><math>\sqrt{5}</math></small>:<br>
<small><math>\phi +\frac{1}{\phi }=\sqrt{5}</math></small>
|colspan=2|<small><math>\phi = (\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>1.618034</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\chi = (3\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>3.854102</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = (3\sqrt{5} - 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.854102</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = 11/\chi = 22/(3\sqrt{5} + 1)</math></small>
|<small><math>2.854102</math></small>
|}
== The 16-cell 4-orthoplex ==
In 2-space we have the regular 8-point octagon, in 3-space the regular 8-point cube, and in 4-space the regular 8-point [[16-cell]].
A planar octagon with rigid edges of unit length has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1,r_2=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_3=\sqrt{2}+1 \approx 2.414,r_4=\sqrt{4 + \sqrt{8}} \approx 2.613</math>
The chord ratio <math>r_3=\sqrt{2}+1</math> is a geometrical proportion, the [[W:Silver ratio|silver ratio]]. Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that:
:<math>r_3-r_1-r_1=1/r_3 \approx 0.414</math>
Note that <math>r_3-2=1/r_3=\sqrt{2}-1</math>. Their procedure rotates counterclockwise over three <math>r_3</math> chords of an {8/3} octagram. Over the first <math>r_3</math> chord the displacement is <math>\sqrt{2}+1</math>. Over the second <math>r_3</math> chord it moves in the opposite direction a distance of <math>-1</math> . Over the third <math>r_3</math> chord it also moves a distance of <math>-1</math>. Fontaine and Hurley also demonstrated the significance of <math>1/r_i</math> in Steinbach's Diagonal Product Formula, which says that every chord length is the sum of certain smaller chord lengths. The smaller chords are certain diagonals of the same regular polygon of a smaller edge length, specifically edge length <math>1/r_i</math> rather than <math>1</math>.
If we embed the planar octagon in 3-space, we can make it skew, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from three others instead of two others, at the vertices of a unit-edge cube with chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1, r_2=\sqrt{2}, r_3=\sqrt{3}, r_4=\sqrt{2}</math>
If we embed this cube in 4-space, we can skew it some more, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from six others instead of three others, at the vertices of a unit-edge 4-polytope with chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1,r_2=1,r_3=1,r_4=\sqrt{2}</math>
All of its chords except its long diameters are the same unit length as its edge. In fact they are its 24 edges, and it is a 16-cell of radius <math>1/\sqrt{2}</math>.
[[File:octagon16cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of a regular 16-cell to the [[16-cell#Projections|B<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only its edges are shown; its long diameter chords are not drawn. All 24 edges are the same length and none lie parallel to the projection plane. The octagon circumference is a Petrie polygon. The two disjoint squares lie in completely orthogonal central planes. The blue octagram is a Clifford polygon. ]]
The [[16-cell]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small>. It has 8 vertices, 24 edges, 32 equilateral triangle faces, and 16 regular tetrahedron cells. It is the [[16-cell#Octahedral dipyramid|four-dimensional analogue of the octahedron]], and each of its four orthogonal central hyperplanes is an octahedron.
The only planar regular polygons found in the 16-cell are face triangles and central plane squares, but the 16-cell also contains a skew regular octagon, its [[W:Petrie polygon|Petrie polygon]].{{Efn|name=Petrie polygon of a honeycomb}} The chords of this regular octagon, which lies skew in 4-space, are those given above for the 16-cell, as opposed to those for the cube or the regular octagon in the plane. The 16-cell is a construct of 3 Petrie octagons which share the same 8 vertices but have disjoint sets of 8 edges each.
The regular octad has higher symmetry in 4-space than it does in 2-space. The 16-cell is the 4-[[w:Cross-polytope|orthoplex]], the simplest regular 4-polytope after the [[5-cell|4-simplex]]. All the larger regular convex 4-polytopes are compounds of the 16-cell. The regular octagon exhibits this high symmetry only when embedded in 4-space at the vertices of the 16-cell.
The 16-cell constitutes an [[W:Orthonormal basis|orthonormal basis]] for the choice of a 4-dimensional Cartesian reference frame, because its vertices define four orthogonal axes. The eight vertices of a unit-radius 16-cell are (±1, 0, 0, 0), (0, ±1, 0, 0), (0, 0, ±1, 0), (0, 0, 0, ±1). All vertices are connected by <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges except opposite pairs.
The vertex coordinates of the 16-cell form 6 central squares lying in 6 pairwise [[W:Orthogonal|orthogonal]] coordinate planes. Great squares in opposite planes that do not share an axis (e.g. in the ''xy'' and ''wz'' planes) are completely disjoint (they do not intersect at any vertices). These planes are [[W:Completely orthogonal|completely orthogonal]].{{Efn|name=Six orthogonal planes of the Cartesian basis}}
Since the unit-radius coordinate system is convenient, let us derive the unit-radius 16-cell by skewing a unit-radius planar octagon, which has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{2-\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.765,r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_4=2</math>
We will need a planar octagon with rigid <math>r_2</math> chords, rather than one with rigid <math>r_1</math> edges. The octagon's <math>r_2</math> chords form two disjoint great squares, visible in the orthogonal projection, which we can reposition in 3-space to form a cube by making them parallel, and in 4-space to form a 16-cell by making them completely orthogonal.
Each chord is a distinct 4-vector with a length and a direction. Since the edges of the 16-cell are all the same length <math>r_1=\sqrt{2},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2}</math>, those chords are distinct only in the context of a rotation, where vertices circle over the chords of an <math>r_i</math> polygon. The rotational curve over each <math>r_i</math> chord makes <math>i</math> 45° turns. The angle between two <math>r_i</math> chords is <math>180^\circ - i \times 45^\circ</math>.
[[File:16-cell-orig.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 8-point 16-cell <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small> performing a double rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}}]]
[[W:Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space|Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space]] can be seen as the composition of two 2-dimensional rotations in completely orthogonal planes. The general rotation in 4-space is a [[W:SO(4)#Double rotations|double rotation]] in pairs of completely orthogonal planes. Two completely orthogonal planes are called invariant planes of the rotation when all points in the plane rotate on circles that remain in the plane, even as the whole plane tilts sideways (like a coin flipping) into another plane. The two completely orthogonal rotations of each plane (like a wheel, and like a coin flipping) are simultaneous but independent, in that they are not geometrically constrained to turn at the same rate. However, the most circular kind of rotation (as opposed to an elliptical double rotation of a rigid spherical object) occurs when the completely orthogonal planes do rotate through the same angle in the same time interval. Such equi-angled double rotations are called [[w:SO(4)#Isoclinic_rotations|isoclinic]], also [[w:William_Kingdon_Clifford|Clifford]] displacements.
The <math>r_1</math> chords of the 16-cell form a Petrie polygon {8/1} which zig-zags back and forth, in the left and right rotational directions, between two completely orthogonal great squares formed by <math>r_2</math> chords.
The <math>r_2</math> chords of the 16-cell form an ''edge polygon'' {8/2}=2{4}. The two completely orthogonal great squares lie parallel and perpendicular to each other. A ''simple'' rotation of the 16-cell in ''one'' of those two square central planes rotates that square like a wheel, while the other square does not move.{{Efn|name=simple rotations}} The four vertices of the rotating square orbit on a great circle in the plane.
The <math>r_3</math> chords of the 16-cell form a circular helix, visible as a blue {8/3} octagram in the orthogonal projection. A ''double'' rotation of the 16-cell, in both of two completely orthogonal invariant <math>r_2</math> square planes at once by equal angles, moves the eight vertices along the circular helix over <math>r_3</math> chords. The vertex motion is a [[w:Geodesic|geodesic]] circle orbit on the 3-sphere of a special kind: it does not lie in a central plane, its [[w:Winding_number|winding number]] is not 1 (it is 3 in this case), its circumference is not <math>2\pi</math> (it is <math>6\pi</math> in this case), and it moves in either a left or right handed circular spiral. We shall refer to such a chiral circle orbit as an ''isocline'', and to the skew polygram of its rotational chords as a ''Clifford polygon''.
The 16-cell is the simplest possible frame in which to [[16-cell#Rotations|observe 4-dimensional rotations]] because its characteristic rotations feature a single pair of invariant rotation planes. In the 16-cell an isoclinic rotation by 90° in any pair of invariant completely orthogonal square central planes takes every great square to its completely orthogonal great square in a twisting displacement, as the invariant planes tilt sideways 90° into each other's plane while rotating 90° internally. All the vertices move at once along the same circular helix geodesic isocline of <math>r_3</math> chords, displaced 90° in 8 orthogonal directions, and the rigid 16-cell assumes a new orientation in 4-space. When the 90° isoclinic rotation is continued in the same rotational direction through an additional 90°, each vertex is again displaced 90°, but from the new orientation in a direction orthogonal to its first 90° displacement. The rotational curve over each 90° <math>r_3</math> chord makes three 45° turns. In 360° of isoclinic rotation over four <math>r_3</math> chords, each vertex makes twelve 45° turns and reaches its antipodal position.
The trajectory of each vertex over each 90° isoclinic rotational displacement is a one-eighth segment of its geodesic orbit. Its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over eight <math>r_3</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane twice, over the four <math>r_2</math> edges of a great square in one of the two moving invariant rotation planes. In the course of a 720° isoclinic revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 16-cell returns to its original orientation.
We shall refer to this isoclinic rotation as the ''great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell'', and note once again that it is Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_3</math> {8/3} star polygon, which constructs <math>1/r_3</math>.
== The 8-cell tesseract ==
The long diameter of the unit-edge [[W:Hypercube|hypercube]] of dimension <math>n</math> is <math>\sqrt{n}</math>, so the unit-edge [[w:Tesseract|4-hypercube, the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract,]] has chords:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math>
Uniquely in its 4-dimensional case, the hypercube's edge length equals its radius, like the hexagon. We call such polytopes ''radially equilateral'', because they can be constructed from equilateral triangles which meet at their center, each contributing two radii and an edge. The [[w:Cuboctahedron|cuboctahedron]] and the 24-cell are also radially equilateral.
[[File:8-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation about a plane in 4-space.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The stationary plane bisects the figure from front-left to back-right and top to bottom.]]
The [[W:Tesseract|tesseract]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 16 vertices, 32 edges, 24 square faces, and 8 cube cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cube.
The 16-point tesseract is the convex hull of a compound of two 8-point 16-cells, in exact dimensional analogy to the way the 8-point cube is the convex hull of a [[W:Stellated octahedron|compound of two 4-point regular tetrahedrons]]. The [[W:Demihypercube|demihypercubes]] occupy alternate vertices of the hypercubes. The diagonals of the square faces of the unit-edge, unit-radius tesseract are the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges of two unit-radius 16-cells, also the edges of the square central planes.
We can rotate the tesseract isoclinically the way we rotated the 16-cell, by 90° in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on both alternate-position 16-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cell. The two skew {8/3} octagram Clifford polygons lie on two disjoint parallel isoclines of the same chirality, of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chords. They form a circular double helix which intersects each vertex of the tesseract once. The double helix is an 8-rung ladder twisted around 3 times, and bent into a circle in the fourth dimension with its ends joined. Each rung is a <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chord.
The tesseract is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 16-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew octagon, but the tesseract is a construct of 4 Petrie octagons with disjoint sets of 8 tesseract edges each. We can construct the tesseract by skewing two planar octagons. Because the tesseract is radially equilateral (unlike the 16-cell), we use two octagons of unit-edge length to build the unit-radius tesseract. To start we embed the planar octagons in 4-space at the same point and make them completely orthogonal. Then we skew each planar octagon into a cube, so we have a compound of two completely orthogonal cubes, provided we skewed them both in the same direction. The 16 vertices will be the vertices of a tesseract with half its 32 edges missing.
Because the tesseract contains two 16-cells in alternate positions it has two sets of 6 orthogonal square central planes. Two angles are required to specify the relationship between two planes in 4-space. Pairs of square central planes within each 16-cell are 90° apart in one angle, and either 0° or 90° apart in the other angle. They are 90° apart in both angles if and only if they are completely orthogonal planes, 90° apart by isoclinic rotation, with no vertices in common and their corresponding pairs of vertices 180° apart. Otherwise they are 0° apart in one of the angles, 90° apart by simple rotation, and they intersect in one axis and lie in a common 3-dimensional hyperplane.{{Efn|A double rotation in which one of the two angles of rotation is 0°, so that one of the completely orthogonal invariant planes does not rotate, is called a simple rotation. Ordinary rotations observed in a 3-dimensional space are simple rotations.|name=simple rotations}}
A pair of square central planes from alternate-position 16-cells are 60° apart by isoclinic rotation, with their corresponding pairs of vertices 120° apart. The planes are not orthogonal or parallel, so they intersect in a line somewhere, but they have no vertices in common, they have no 3-dimensional hyperplane in common, and they cannot reach each other by simple rotation. Such pairs of objects are called [[W:Clifford parallel|Clifford parallel]] because all their corresponding pairs of vertices are the same distance apart, although they are not parallel in the usual sense, because they have a common center. Not only the alternate-position 16-cells' corresponding square central planes, but also the 16-cells themselves, are Clifford parallel objects. More generally, multiple disjoint instances of a 4-polytope which compound to make a larger 4-polytope are Clifford parallel objects.
== The 24-cell ==
[[File:24-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the radially equilateral 24-cell, showing its 3 great circle polygons and its 4 chord lengths.]]
In 2-space we have the radially equilateral 6-point hexagon. In 3-space we have the radially equilateral 12-point cuboctahedron, with 4 hexagon central planes. In 4-space we have the radially equilateral 24-point 24-cell, with 12 cuboctahedron central hyperplanes and 16 hexagon central planes.
The [[24-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small>. It has 24 vertices, 96 edges, 96 equilateral triangle faces, and 24 octahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cuboctahedron.
The 24-cell has the same chord set as the 4-hypercube tesseract:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math>
[[Image:24-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 24-point 24-cell <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 24 octahedra is visible.]]
The 24-cell is [[W:Dual polytope|self-dual]], like the regular polygons and regular simplexes. It is the maximal regular construct of triangles and squares (with no pentagons). It is the convex hull of a compound of three disjoint 8-point 16-cells, rotated 60° isoclinically with respect to each other. Each of the three pairs of 16-cells is a tesseract. Each 24-cell edge is also a tesseract edge. The corresponding vertices of two 16-cells or two tesseracts are 120° apart by a <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chord. Each tesseract has 8 cube cells, and each cube has four <math>\sqrt{3}</math> long diameters. The <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords joining the corresponding vertices of two tesseracts belong to the third tesseract as cell long diameters.
The 24-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular dodecagon {12}. The unit-radius planar {12}-gon has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}-1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.518,r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}+1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.932,r_6=\sqrt{4}</math>
Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that:
:<math>r_5-r_3+r_1+r_1-r_3=1/r_5</math>
when <math>r_1=1</math>. In the system of unit-radius coordinates <math>r_1=1/r_5</math>. The procedure rotates counterclockwise over five <math>r_5</math> chords of a {12/5} dodecagram.
The <math>r_1</math> and <math>r_5</math> chords of the planar dodecagon do not occur in the 24-cell, which is a construct of eight skew dodecagons with disjoint sets of twelve <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges each. In the skew dodecagons the chord lengths are:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\sqrt{3},r_6=\sqrt{4}</math>
Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation.
The <math>r_1</math> <small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small> chords form 8 Petrie dodecagons which zig-zag back and forth, in the left and right rotational directions, between two Clifford parallel great hexagons formed by <math>r_2</math> chords. The 8 Petrie dodecagons can be divided four ways into 2 disjoint Petrie dodecagons {24/2}=2{12}.
The <math>r_2</math> <small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small> chords form 16 great hexagons, which can be divided four ways into 4 Clifford parallel great hexagons {24/4}=4{6}.
The <math>r_3</math> <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chords form 18 great squares, which can be divided three ways into 6 Clifford parallel great squares {24/6}=6{4}, including one pair of completely orthogonal great squares from each of the three 16-cells.
The <math>r_4</math> <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords form 32 great triangles, which can be divided four ways into 8 disjoint great triangles {24/8}=8{3} inscribed in 4 Clifford parallel great hexagons.
The <math>r_5</math> <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords form 8 circular helix Clifford polygons, visible as a green {12/5} dodecagram in the orthogonal projection. An isoclinic rotation of the 24-cell in 4 invariant <math>r_2</math> hexagon planes moves the vertices along 2 Clifford parallel circular isoclines {24/2}=2{12/5} over <math>r_5</math> chords.
[[File:dodecagon24cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of half a 24-cell to the [[24-cell#Geodesics|F<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only one Petrie dodecagon {12} of the 24-cell is shown. In a unit-radius 24-cell, all black lines are 24-cell edges of unit length, also tesseract edges. The two disjoint hexagons lie in Clifford parallel central planes. Blue chords are <math>\sqrt{2}</math> 16-cell edges of Clifford parallel great squares, also isocline chords in great square rotations. Green chords are <math>\sqrt{3}</math> distances between corresponding vertices of two 16-cells, also isocline chords in great hexagon rotations. The green {12/5} dodecagram is a Clifford polygon.]]
[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} shows three octagram isoclines of <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math> </small>chords in the 24-cell]]
We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 6 Clifford parallel invariant great square planes containing 16-cell edges, in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on all three 16-cells. In 720° each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cells. The rotational curve over each 90° <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chord makes three 45° turns. Three Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chords form a circular triple helix {24/9}=3{8/3} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. The triple helix is an 8-step circular staircase that twists around 3 times, and is bent into a torus in the fourth dimension. Each staircase step is a great triangle of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords.
[[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} shows 2 dodecagram isoclines of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords in the 24-cell]]We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 4 Clifford parallel invariant great hexagon planes containing 24-cell edges, over <math>r_{5}</math> isocline chords. This is the ''great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell'', also Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_5</math> {12/5} star polygon which constructs <math>1/r_5</math>. A complete 24-cell great circle edge plane revolution requires 720° like a complete 16-cell great circle edge plane revolution, but it is completed in 12 isoclinic displacements of 60° each rather than 8 isoclinic displacements of 90° each. An isoclinic rotation by 60° in an invariant central plane containing a 24-cell edge takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon in a twisting displacement, as 4 invariant great hexagon planes tilt sideways 60° while rotating 60° internally. It also takes every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. All 24 vertices move at once on Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 120° in different directions. The trajectory of each vertex over each 60° rotational displacement is a one-twelfth segment of its geodesic orbit. Its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space over 12 <math>r_5</math> <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane 5 times in a moving invariant rotation plane. The rotational curve over each <math>r_5</math> 120° chord makes five 30° turns. Two Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> form a circular double helix {24/10}=2{12/5} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 24-cell returns to its original orientation.
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |6 distinct 180° chord pairs make 6 distinct isoclinic rotations
|-
! colspan="3" |Short chords
!Invariant planes
! colspan="3" |Long chords
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_1</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_24.svg|100px]]<br>{24/1}={24}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-11.svg|100px]]<br>{24/11}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{11}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|165°
|15°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_2</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/2}=2{12}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_4(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/4}=4{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,5).svg|100px]]<br>{24/10}=2{12/5}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{10}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|150°
|30°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_3</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/3}=3{8}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|100px]]<br>{24/9}=3{8/3}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{9}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|135°
|45°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_4</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_4(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/4}=4{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_12(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/12}=12{2}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_8(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/8}=8{3}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{8}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|120°
|60°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_5</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-5.svg|100px]]<br>{24/5}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-7.svg|100px]]<br>{24/7}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{7}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|105°
|75°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_6</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{6}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|90°
|90°
|}
By examining the chords <math>r_i</math> of the 24-cell's Petrie {12}-gon we have found two distinct isoclinic rotations, the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell and the great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell. If we examine the chords <math>t_i</math> of the 24-cell's {24}-gon we find these, and also four other distinct isoclinic rotations.
Each row of the table describes a distinct isoclinic rotation of the 24-cell characterized by a pair of chords whose arc-lengths sum to 180°. Each chord lies in a central plane which is either a great square or a great hexagon. Each short chord plane is completely orthogonal to a corresponding long chord plane. These central planes are not to be confused with the invariant planes of the rotation, which intersect 0, 2, 4, or 6 vertices of the 24-cell as illustrated in the center column of each row.
The short chord and long chord each have their characteristic {24/''n''}-gon, which correspond as projections of the 24-cell to completely orthogonal planes. Their projection viewpoints look straight down orthogonal cylinders which are actually [[w:SO(4)#Visualization_of_4D_rotations|bent into tori in 4-space]].
Each {24/''n''}-gon forms either a compound of ''n'' disjoint Clifford parallel regular polygons, or a single regular {24/n} star polygon. Polygons with {2}, {3}, {4} or {6} sides lie in a central plane, and all others lie skew in 4-space. The rotational angle between successive short chords in 4-space and the rotational angle between successive long chords in 4-space sum to 180°. Those angles distinguish distinct chords <math>t_i</math> which are the same length.
Each isoclinic rotation takes two chiral forms. There is a ''right rotation'' and a ''left rotation'' for each row of the table. The right and left rotations are enantiomorphous reflections of each other like a pair of clasped hands, with non-congruent vertex position sequences. The right rotation takes Clifford parallel short chord polygons to each other, while the long chord polygons remain stationary in 4-space as vertices circle over them. In the left rotation the roles of the short chord polygon and the long chord polygon are reversed: the short chord polygons remain stationary in 4-space as vertices circle over them, as the rotation takes Clifford parallel long chord polygons to each other.
{{Clear}}
== The 600-cell ==
[[Image:600-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 120-point 600-cell <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2011}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 600 tetrahedra is visible. Invisible in this rendering are 25 inscribed instances of the 24-cell (above), which occur in the 600-cell as interior boundary envelopes.]]
The [[600-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small>. It has 120 vertices, 720 edges, 1200 equilateral triangle faces, and 600 tetrahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the icosahedron.
The 600-cell rounds out the 24-cell by adding 96 more vertices (four more disjoint 24-cells) between the 24-cell's existing 24 vertices, in effect adding twenty-four more distinct 24-cells inscribed in the 600-cell. The new surface thus formed is a honeycomb of smaller, more numerous cells: tetrahedra of edge length <math>\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> instead of octahedra of edge length <math>\sqrt{1}</math>. It encloses the <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges of the 24-cells, which become invisible interior chords in the 600-cell, like the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords.
Since the tetrahedra are made of shorter triangle edges than the octahedra (by a factor of <math>\phi^{-1}</math> the inverse golden ratio), the 600-cell is not radially equilateral like the 24-cell and the tesseract. Like them it is radially triangular in a special way, but one in which [[w:Golden_triangle_(mathematics)|golden triangles]] rather than equilateral triangles meet at the center.
In 2-space we have the ''radially golden'' [[W:Decagon#The golden ratio in decagon|regular decagon]]. In 3-space we have the radially golden 30-point [[W:icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]], with 6 decagon central planes. In 4-space we have the radially golden 120-point 600-cell, with 60 icosidodecahedron central hyperplanes and 72 decagon central planes.
The 600-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular [[w:Triacontagon|triacontagon {30}]]. The unit-radius planar {30}-gon has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.209</math>
:<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.416</math>
:<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.813</math>
:<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math>
:<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.338</math>
:<math>r_8=2 \cos (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.486</math>
:<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math>
:<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{11}=2 \cos (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.827</math>
:<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{13}=2 \cos (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.956</math>
:<math>r_{14}=2 \cos (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.989</math>
:<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math>
Only the chord lengths <math>r_3</math>, <math>r_5</math>, <math>r_6</math>, <math>\sqrt{2}</math>, <math>r_9</math>, <math>r_{10}</math>, <math>r_{12}</math>, <math>r_{15}</math> occur in the 600-cell, which is a construct of 24 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>r_3</math>, six of which intersect in each icosahedral vertex figure. In the skew {30}-gons the chord lengths are:
[[File:600-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the 600-cell, showing its 5 regular great circle polygons and its 8 chord lengths with angles of arc. The golden ratio governs the fractional roots of every other chord, and the radial golden triangles which meet at the center.|400x400px]]
:<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math>
:<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math>
:<math>r_8=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math>
:<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math>
:<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{11}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{13}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{14}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math>
Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation.
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |15 chords (4 distinct 180° pairs) make 4 distinct section polyhedra
|-
! colspan="3" |Short chords
! Section
! colspan="3" |Long chords
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_0</math>
|0°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2}
|180°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{15}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0}}
|{{radic|4}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0
|2
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|180°
|0°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_1</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14}=2{15/7}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{14}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|168°
|12°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_2</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{13}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|156°
|24°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_3</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V1 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{12}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|144°
|36°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_4</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{11}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|132°
|48°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_5</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V2 dodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Dodecahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{10}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|120°
|60°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{6}</math>
|72°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V3 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3}
|108°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{9}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|1.382~}}
|{{radic|2.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|1.176~
|1.618~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|108°
|72°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{7}</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V4 icosidodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosidodecahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{8}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|96°
|84°
|}
The list of 600-cell chords <math>r_{i}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 8 rows with a pair of 180° complements in each row. The short chord and long chord each have their characteristic {30/n}-gon. Each row identifies a distinct isoclinic rotation of the 600-cell.
Each distinct pair of complementary chord lengths is identified with a distinct [[w:600-cell#Polyhedral sections|polyhedral section of the 600-cell]] beginning with a vertex. In spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]], every vertex is the center of a set of 7 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>\phi^{-1}</math> is a icosahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>\sqrt{2}</math> is an [[W:Icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]] central section bisecting the 600-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>\sqrt{2}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal icosahedron vertex figure at distance <math>\sqrt{2+\phi}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 7 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section).
[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>]]
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on 15 disjoint 16-cells. Each 90° displacement takes 15 pairs of completely orthogonal invariant great square planes to each other. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. The rotational curve over each 90° chord makes three 45° turns. Fifteen Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> form a circular fibration of 15 twisted parallel strands 5{24/9}=15{8/3} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great square planes, which has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. This ''great square rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' takes place over <math>r_7</math> edge chords and <math>r_8</math> isocline chords. The {30/7} edge polygon is a skew helix of circumference <math>14\pi</math> with each <math>r_7</math> edge belonging to a distinct great square. The four {30/7} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. Each 90° displacement takes every 16-cell to another 16-cell. The vertices of the invariant great squares each make seven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/7} edge makes seven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/7} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The {30/8}=2{15/4} Clifford polygon is a compound of two skew {15/4} pentadecagrams of circumference <math>16\pi</math> with each <math>r_8</math> isocline chord belonging to a distinct 16-cell. The four {30/8} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/8} isocline chord makes eight 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/8} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
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[[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> ]]
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell, over <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords, with the same effect on 5 disjoint 24-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions of its 24-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. Ten Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> form a circular fibration of ten twisted parallel strands 5{24/10}=10{12/5} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great hexagon planes, over <math>r_{4}=\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>r_{11}=\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords This ''great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. Its {30/11} Clifford polygon is a skew helix where each <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord is the <math>\sqrt{3}</math> diagonal of a great hexagon of a distinct 24-cell. The vertices of the invariant great hexagons of this rotation each make eleven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord makes eleven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/11} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>22\pi</math> over <math>r_{11}</math> chords form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in 12 Clifford parallel invariant decagon central planes containing its 36° <math>r_{3}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{12}</math> isocline chords. This ''great pentagon rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' has period 5 and takes disjoint 24-cells to each other. The rotational curve over each <math>r_{12}</math> chord of its {5/2} Clifford polygon makes twelve 12° turns. 24 Clifford parallel {5/2} pentagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>4\pi</math> over five <math>r_{12}</math> chords form a circular fibration of 24 twisted parallel strands 4{30/12}=24{5/2} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The rotation of the 600-cell by 36° in any invariant decagon central plane takes every great decagon to a Clifford parallel great decagon in a twisting displacement, as all the central planes tilt sideways 36° while rotating 36° internally. It also takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon, and every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. The 24-cells revolve within the 600-cell, as the 16-cells revolve within the 24-cells. All 120 vertices move at once on four Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 144° in different directions.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great decagon planes containing its 36° <math>r_{2}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chords. This rotation has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. The rotational curve over each 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chord makes thirteen 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/13} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>26\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
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== Finally the 120-cell ==
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |30 chords (15 180° pairs) make 15 distinct section polyhedra
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! colspan="3" |Short chords
! Section
! colspan="3" |Long chords
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_0</math>
|0°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2}
|180°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{30}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0}}
|{{radic|4}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0
|2
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|180°
|0°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_1</math>
|15.5~°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14}
|164.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{29}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0.073~}}
|{{radic|3.927~}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0.270~
|1.982~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|168°
|12°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_2</math>
|25.2~°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13}
|154.8~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{28}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.191~}}
|{{radic|3.809~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.437~
|1.952~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|156°
|24°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_3</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{27}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|144°
|36°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_4</math>
|41.4~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|138.6~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{26}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.5}}
|{{radic|3.5}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.707~
|1.871~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|138°
|42°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_5</math>
|44.5~°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11}
|135.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{25}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0.573~}}
|{{radic|3.427~}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0.757~
|1.851~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|132°
|48°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_6</math>
|49.1~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|130.9~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{24}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.691~}}
|{{radic|3.309~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.831~
|1.819~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|128°
|52°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_7</math>
|56°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|124°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{23}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.882~}}
|{{radic|3.118~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.939~
|1.766~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|124°
|56°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_8</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{22}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|120°
|60°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_9</math>
|66.1~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|113.9~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{21}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1.191~}}
|{{radic|2.809~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1.091~
|1.676~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|116°
|64°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{10}</math>
|69.8~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|110.2~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{20}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1.309~}}
|{{radic|2.691~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1.144~
|1.640~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|112°
|68°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{11}</math>
|72°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3}
|108°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{19}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|1.382~}}
|{{radic|2.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|1.176~
|1.618~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|108°
|72°
|- style="background: palegreen; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{12}</math>
|75.5~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4}
|104.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{18}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1.5}}
|{{radic|2.5}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1.224~
|1.581~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|96°
|84°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{13}</math>
|81.1~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|98.9~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{17}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1.691~}}
|{{radic|2.309~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1.300~
|1.520~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|°
|°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{14}</math>
|84.5~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|95.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{16}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.809~}}
|{{radic|2.191~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1.345~
|1.480~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|°
|°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{15}</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{15}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|90°
|90°
|}
The [[120-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 600 vertices, 1200 edges, 720 pentagon faces, and 120 dodecahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the dodecahedron.
The [[User:Dc.samizdat/Golden chords of the 120-cell#Thirty distinguished distances|list of thirty 120-cell chords]] <math>c_{t}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 16 rows and 2 columns with a pair of 180° complements in each row. This table first appears in [[w:Regular_Polytopes_(book)|''Regular Polytopes'']] (1947),{{Sfn|Coxeter|1973|loc=Table V(v): Simplified sections of {5,3,3} beginning with a vertex|pp=300-301}} where Coxeter identified each row with a distinct [[w:120-cell#Concentric_hulls|polyhedral section of the 120-cell]] beginning with a vertex. He showed that in spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] every vertex is the center of a set of 29 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>c_1</math> is a tetrahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>c_{15}</math> is a central section bisecting the 120-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>c_{15}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal tetrahedron vertex figure at distance <math>c_{29}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 29 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section). Each section also lies completely orthogonal to a congruent section.
Only 8 of the 30 chords in the table occur in the 600-cell. The 120-cell's additional chords arise originally from the regular 5-cell 4-simplex, in its interaction with the other regular 4-polytopes that compound to make the 120-cell. Since all those polytopes except the 5-cell occur in the 600-cell, and the 600-cell and the 120-cell have the same symmetry group, the 5-cell's symmetry group is the entirety of what's new in the 120-cell.
The 120-cell is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 600-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew triacontagon {30}, but the 120-cell is a construct of 40 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>c_1</math>, two of which intersect in each tetrahedral vertex figure.
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== Conclusions ==
Fontaine and Hurley's discovery is more than a geometric formula for the reciprocal of a regular ''n''-polygon diagonal. It also yields the discrete sequence of isocline chords of the characteristic isoclinic rotation of a ''d''-dimensional polytope. The characteristic rotational chord sequence of the ''d''-polytope can be represented geometrically in two dimensions on a distinct star polygon, but it lies on a geodesic circle through ''d''-dimensional space. Fontaine and Hurley discovered the geodesic topology of polytopes generally. Their procedure will reveal the geodesics of arbitrary non-uniform polytopes, since it can be applied to a polytope of any dimensionality and irregularity, by first fitting the polytope to the smallest regular polygon whose chords include its chords. [If what is meant by this is its Petrie polygon, it is not quite necessary or possible with respect to the planar polygon chords, e.g. the planar Petrie polygon of the 600-cell does not contain the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chord. But perhaps it would work if the fit is to the smallest regular skew polygon in the ''d''-space.]
The discovery of a chordal construction for discrete isoclinic rotations generally closes the circuit on Kappraff and Adamson's discovery of a rotational connection between dynamical systems, Steinbach's golden fields, and Coxeter's Euclidean geometry of reflections in ''n'' dimensions. Application of the Fontaine and Hurley procedure to the 120-cell demonstrates why the connection exists: because polytope sequences generally, from Steinbach's golden chord sequences in polygons, to sequences of star polygons in isoclinic rotations, to subsumption relations in the sequence of regular 4-polytopes, arise as expressions of the reflections and rotations of distinct Coxeter symmetry groups, when those various groups interact.
== Appendix: Sequence of regular 4-polytopes ==
{{Regular convex 4-polytopes|wiki=W:|columns=7}}
== Notes ==
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== Citations ==
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== References ==
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* {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=1997 | title=Golden fields: A case for the Heptagon | journal=Mathematics Magazine | volume=70 | issue=Feb 1997 | pages=22–31 | doi=10.1080/0025570X.1997.11996494 | jstor=2691048 | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|1997}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=2000 | title=Sections Beyond Golden| journal=Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music and Science | issue=2000 | pages=35-44 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2000/bridges2000-35.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|2000}}}}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Jablan | first2=Slavik | last3=Adamson | first3=Gary | last4=Sazdanovich | first4=Radmila | year=2004 | title=Golden Fields, Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, and Chaotic Matrices | journal=Forma | volume=19 | pages=367-387 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2005/bridges2005-369.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff, Jablan, Adamson & Sazdanovich|2004}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Adamson | first2=Gary | year=2004 | title=Polygons and Chaos | journal=Dynamical Systems and Geometric Theories | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2001/bridges2001-67.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff & Adamson|2004}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Fontaine | first1=Anne | last2=Hurley | first2=Susan | year=2006 | title=Proof by Picture: Products and Reciprocals of Diagonal Length Ratios in the Regular Polygon | journal=Forum Geometricorum | volume=6 | pages=97-101 | url=https://scispace.com/pdf/proof-by-picture-products-and-reciprocals-of-diagonal-length-1aian8mgp9.pdf }}
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= Golden chords of the 120-cell =
{{align|center|David Brooks Christie}}
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<blockquote>Steinbach discovered the formula for the ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. Fontaine and Hurley extended this result, discovering a formula for the reciprocal of a regular polygon chord derived geometrically from the chord's star polygon. We observe that these findings in plane geometry apply more generally, to polytopes of any dimensionality. Fontaine and Hurley's geometric procedure for finding the reciprocals of the chords of a regular polygon from their star polygons also finds the rotational geodesics of any polytope of any dimensionality.</blockquote>
== Introduction ==
Steinbach discovered the Diagonal Product Formula and the Golden Fields family of ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. He showed how this family extends beyond the pentagon {5} with its well-known golden bisection proportional to 𝜙, finding that the heptagon {7} has an analogous trisection, the nonagon {9} has an analogous quadrasection, and the hendecagon {11} has an analogous pentasection, an extended family of golden proportions with quasiperiodic properties.
Kappraff and Adamson extended these findings in plane geometry to a theory of Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, showing that the Golden Fields not only do not end with the hendecagon, they form an infinite number of periodic trajectories when operated on by the Mandelbrot operator. They found a relation between the edges of star polygons and dynamical systems in the state of chaos, revealing a connection between chaos theory, number, and rotations in Coxeter Euclidean geometry.
Fontaine and Hurley examined Steinbach's finding that the length of each chord of a regular polygon is both the product of two chords and the sum of a set of smaller chords, so that in rotations to add is to multiply. They illustrated Steinbach's sets of additive chords lying parallel to each other in the plane (pointing in the same direction), and by applying Steinbach's formula more generally they found another summation relation of signed parallel chords (pointing in opposite directions) which relates each chord length to its reciprocal, and relates the summation to a distinct star polygon rotation.
We examine these remarkable findings (which stem from study of the chords of humble regular polygons) in higher-dimensional spaces, specifically in the chords, polygons and rotations of the [[120-cell]], the largest four-dimensional regular convex polytope.
== Visualizing the 120-cell ==
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|style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:120-cell.gif|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point 120-cell <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small> performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]].{{Sfn|Hise|2011|loc=File:120-cell.gif|ps=; "Created by Jason Hise with Maya and Macromedia Fireworks. A 3D projection of a 120-cell performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]]."}} In this simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges are shown; its 29 interior chords are not rendered. Therefore even though it is translucent, only its outer surface is visible. The complex interior parts of the 120-cell, all its inscribed 5-cells, 16-cells, 8-cells, 24-cells, 600-cells and its much larger inventory of polyhedra, are completely invisible in this view, as none of their edges are rendered at all.
|style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:Ortho solid 016-uniform polychoron p33-t0.png|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point [[W:Great grand stellated 120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] <small><math>\{\tfrac{5}{2},3,3\}</math></small>.{{Sfn|Ruen: Great grand stellated 120-cell|2007}} The 120-cell is its convex hull. The projection to the left renders only the 120-cell's shortest chord, its 1200 edges. The projection above also renders only one of the 120-cell's 30 chords, the edges of its 120 inscribed regular 5-cells. The 120-cell itself (the convex hull) is invisible in this view, as its edges are not rendered.
|}
[[120-cell#Geometry|The 120-cell is the maximally complex regular 4-polytope]], containing inscribed instances of every regular 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-polytope, except the regular polygons of more than {15} sides.
The 120-cell is the convex hull of a regular [[120-cell#Relationships among interior polytopes|compound of each of the 6 regular convex 4-polytopes]]. They are the [[5-cell|5-point (5-cell) 4-simplex]], the [[16-cell|8-point (16-cell) 4-orthoplex]], the [[W:Tesseract|16-point (8-cell) tesseract]], the [[24-cell|24-point (24-cell)]], the [[600-cell|120-point (600-cell)]], and the [[120-cell|600-point (120-cell)]]. The 120-cell is the convex hull of a compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells, of 75 disjoint 16-cells, of 25 disjoint 24-cells, and of 5 disjoint 600-cells.
The 120-cell contains an even larger inventory of irregular polytopes, created by the intersection of multiple instances of these component regular 4-polytopes. Many are quite unexpected, because they do not occur as components of any regular polytope smaller than the 120-cell. As just one example among the [[120-cell#Concentric hulls|sections of the 120-cell]], there is an irregular 24-point polyhedron with 16 triangle faces and 4 nonagon {9} faces.{{Sfn|Moxness|}}
Most renderings of the 120-cell, like the rotating projection here, only illustrate its outer surface, which is a honeycomb of face-bonded dodecahedral cells. Only the objects in its 3-dimensional surface are rendered, namely the 120 dodecahedra, their pentagon faces, and their edges. Although the 120-cell has chords of 30 distinct lengths, in this kind of simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges (its shortest chord) are shown. Its 29 interior chords, the edges of objects in the interior of the 120-cell, are not rendered, so interior objects are not visible at all.
Visualizing the complete interior of the 600-vertex 120-cell in a single image is impractical because of its complexity. Only four 120-cell edges are incident at each vertex, but [[120-cell#Chords|600 chords (of all 30 lengths)]] are incident at ''each'' vertex.
== Compounds in the 120-cell ==
The 8-point (16-cell), not the 5-point (5-cell) 4-simplex, is the smallest building block; it compounds to every larger regular 4-polytope. The 5-point (5-cell) does compound to the 600-point (120-cell), but it does not fit into any smaller regular 4-polytope.
The 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 2 in the 16-point (8-cell), and by 3 in the 24-point (24-cell). The 16-point (8-cell) compounds in the 24-point (24-cell) by 3 non-disjoint instances of itself, with each of the 24 vertices shared by two 16-point (8-cells). The 24-point (24-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell), and the 120-point (600-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell).
The 24-point (24-cell) also compounds by 5<sup>2</sup> non-disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell); it compounds in 5 disjoint instances of itself, 10 (not 5) different ways. Whichever set of 5 disjoint 24-point (24-cells) are assembled, the resulting 120-point (600-cell) contains 25 distinct 24-point (24-cells), not just 5 (or 10). Consequently 15 disjoint 8-point (16-cells) will construct a 120-point (600-cell), which contains 75 distinct 8-point (16-cells).
The 600-point (120-cell) is 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), just 2 different ways (not 5 or 10 ways), so it is 10 distinct 120-point (600-cells). Consequently the 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 3 times 5<sup>2</sup> (75) disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell), which contains 3<sup>2</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (225) distinct instances of the 24-point (24-cell), and 3<sup>3</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (675) distinct instances of the 8-point (16-cell).
These facts were discovered painstakingly by various researchers, and no one has found a general rule governing subsumption relations among regular polytopes. The reasons for some of their numeric incidence relations are far from obvious. [[W:Pieter Hendrik Schoute|Schoute]] was the first to see that the 120-point (600-cell) is a compound of 5 24-point (24-cells) ''10 different ways'', and after he saw it a hundred years lapsed until Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne proved his result, and showed why.{{Sfn|Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne|2020|loc=''The geometry of H4 polytopes''}}
So much for the compounds of 16-cells. The 120-cell is also the convex hull of the compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells. That stellated compound (without its convex hull of 120-cell edges) is the [[w:Great_grand_stellated_120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] illustrated above, the final regular [[W:Stellation|stellation]] of the 120-cell, and the only [[W:Schläfli-Hess polychoron|regular star 4-polytope]] to have the 120-cell for its convex hull. The edges of the great grand stellated 120-cell are <math>\phi^6</math> as long as those of its 120-cell [[W:List of polyhedral stellations#Stellation process|stellation core]] deep inside.
The compound of 120 disjoint 5-point (5-cells) can be seen to be equivalent to the compound of 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), as follows. Beginning with a single 120-point (600-cell), expand each vertex into a regular 5-cell, by adding 4 new equidistant vertices, such that the 5 vertices form a regular 5-cell inscribed in the 3-sphere. The 120 5-cells are disjoint, and the 600 vertices form 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells): a 120-cell.
== Thirty distinguished distances ==
The 30 numbers listed in the table are all-important in Euclidean geometry. A case can be made on symmetry grounds that their squares are the 30 most important numbers between 0 and 4. The 30 rows of the table are the 30 distinct [[120-cell#Geodesic rectangles|chord lengths of the unit-radius 120-cell]], the largest regular convex 4-polytope. Since the 120-cell subsumes all smaller regular polytopes, its 30 chords are the complete chord set of all the regular polytopes that can be constructed in the first four dimensions of Euclidean space, except for regular polygons of more than 15 sides.
{| class="wikitable" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
!rowspan=2|<math>c_t</math>
!rowspan=2|arc
!rowspan=2|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{n}\right\}</math></small>
!rowspan=2|<math>\left\{p\right\}</math>
!rowspan=2|<small><math>m\left\{\frac{k}{d}\right\}</math></small>
!rowspan=2|Steinbach roots
!colspan=7|Chord lengths of the unit 120-cell
|-
!colspan=5|unit-radius length <math>c_t</math>
!colspan=2|unit-edge length <math>c_t/c_1</math><br>in 120-cell of radius <math>c_8=\sqrt{2}\phi^2</math>
|-
|<small><math>c_{1,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>15.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>c_{4,1}-c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.270091</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi ^2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^4}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.072949}</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1.</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>25.2{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>2 \left\{15\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(c_{18,1}-c_{4,1}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{3-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.437016</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.190983}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi </math></small>
|<small><math>1.61803</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{3,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>36{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{10\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>3 \left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right) c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>0.618034</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.381966}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>2.28825</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>41.4{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.707107</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.61803</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{5,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>44.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{4}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>2 \left\{\frac{15}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.756934</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}}{\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.572949}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>2.80252</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{6,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>49.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{17}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.831254</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5}}{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.690983}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>3.07768</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{7,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>56.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.93913</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.881966}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>3.47709</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>60{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1.</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>3.70246</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{9,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>66.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{2 \phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.09132</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.19098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>4.04057</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{10,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>69.8{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2 \sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.14412</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\phi }{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^2}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>4.23607</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{11,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>72{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{6}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.17557</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.38197}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \sqrt{3-\phi } \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.3525</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{12,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>75.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{24}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.22474</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.53457</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{13,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>81.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.30038</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.69098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.8146</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{14,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>84.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{9}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi } c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{1+\sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.345</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi }}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5} \phi }{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>4.9798</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{15,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>90.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.41421</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>5.23607</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{16,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>95.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{29}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.4802</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.19098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>5.48037</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{17,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>98.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{31}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.51954</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(7+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>5.62605</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{18,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>104.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{8}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{4}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.58114</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{5} \sqrt{\phi ^4}</math></small>
|<small><math>5.8541</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{19,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>108.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{9}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>c_{3,1}+c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>1.61803</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi </math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1+\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.61803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>5.9907</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{20,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>110.2{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.64042</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.69098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\phi ^2}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.07359</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{21,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>113.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{19}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.67601</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\chi }{\phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.20537</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{22,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>120{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{10}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.73205</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{6} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>6.41285</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{23,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>124.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{41}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }+\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.7658</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.11803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.53779</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{24,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>130.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.81907</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\sqrt{5}}{\phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.73503</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{25,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>135.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.85123</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\phi ^2}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^4}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.42705}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^4</math></small>
|<small><math>6.8541</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{26,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>138.6{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{12}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.87083</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{7} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>6.92667</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{27,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>144{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{12}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{5}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.90211</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\phi +2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2+\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.61803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{2 \phi +4}</math></small>
|<small><math>7.0425</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{28,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>154.8{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.95167</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>7.22598</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{29,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>164.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{14}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi c_{12,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>1.98168</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3 \phi ^2}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.92705}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>7.33708</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{30,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>180{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{15}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.</math></small>
|<small><math>2</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4.}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 \sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>7.40492</math></small>
|-
|rowspan=4 colspan=6|
|rowspan=4 colspan=4|
<small><math>\phi</math></small> is the golden ratio:<br>
<small><math>\phi ^2-\phi -1=0</math></small><br>
<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }+1=\phi</math></small>, and: <small><math>\phi+1=\phi^2</math></small><br>
<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }::1::\phi ::\phi ^2</math></small><br>
<small><math>1/\phi</math></small> and <small><math>\phi</math></small> are the golden sections of <small><math>\sqrt{5}</math></small>:<br>
<small><math>\phi +\frac{1}{\phi }=\sqrt{5}</math></small>
|colspan=2|<small><math>\phi = (\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>1.618034</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\chi = (3\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>3.854102</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = (3\sqrt{5} - 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.854102</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = 11/\chi = 22/(3\sqrt{5} + 1)</math></small>
|<small><math>2.854102</math></small>
|}
== The 16-cell 4-orthoplex ==
In 2-space we have the regular 8-point octagon, in 3-space the regular 8-point cube, and in 4-space the regular 8-point [[16-cell]].
A planar octagon with rigid edges of unit length has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1,r_2=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_3=\sqrt{2}+1 \approx 2.414,r_4=\sqrt{4 + \sqrt{8}} \approx 2.613</math>
The chord ratio <math>r_3=\sqrt{2}+1</math> is a geometrical proportion, the [[W:Silver ratio|silver ratio]]. Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that:
:<math>r_3-r_1-r_1=1/r_3 \approx 0.414</math>
Note that <math>r_3-2=1/r_3=\sqrt{2}-1</math>. Their procedure rotates counterclockwise over three <math>r_3</math> chords of an {8/3} octagram. Over the first <math>r_3</math> chord the displacement is <math>\sqrt{2}+1</math>. Over the second <math>r_3</math> chord it moves in the opposite direction a distance of <math>-1</math> . Over the third <math>r_3</math> chord it also moves a distance of <math>-1</math>. Fontaine and Hurley also demonstrated the significance of <math>1/r_i</math> in Steinbach's Diagonal Product Formula, which says that every chord length is the sum of certain smaller chord lengths. The smaller chords are certain diagonals of the same regular polygon of a smaller edge length, specifically edge length <math>1/r_i</math> rather than <math>1</math>.
If we embed the planar octagon in 3-space, we can make it skew, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from three others instead of two others, at the vertices of a unit-edge cube with chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1, r_2=\sqrt{2}, r_3=\sqrt{3}, r_4=\sqrt{2}</math>
If we embed this cube in 4-space, we can skew it some more, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from six others instead of three others, at the vertices of a unit-edge 4-polytope with chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1,r_2=1,r_3=1,r_4=\sqrt{2}</math>
All of its chords except its long diameters are the same unit length as its edge. In fact they are its 24 edges, and it is a 16-cell of radius <math>1/\sqrt{2}</math>.
[[File:octagon16cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of a regular 16-cell to the [[16-cell#Projections|B<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only its edges are shown; its long diameter chords are not drawn. All 24 edges are the same length and none lie parallel to the projection plane. The octagon circumference is a Petrie polygon. The two disjoint squares lie in completely orthogonal central planes. The blue octagram is a Clifford polygon. ]]
The [[16-cell]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small>. It has 8 vertices, 24 edges, 32 equilateral triangle faces, and 16 regular tetrahedron cells. It is the [[16-cell#Octahedral dipyramid|four-dimensional analogue of the octahedron]], and each of its four orthogonal central hyperplanes is an octahedron.
The only planar regular polygons found in the 16-cell are face triangles and central plane squares, but the 16-cell also contains a skew regular octagon, its [[W:Petrie polygon|Petrie polygon]].{{Efn|name=Petrie polygon of a honeycomb}} The chords of this regular octagon, which lies skew in 4-space, are those given above for the 16-cell, as opposed to those for the cube or the regular octagon in the plane. The 16-cell is a construct of 3 Petrie octagons which share the same 8 vertices but have disjoint sets of 8 edges each.
The regular octad has higher symmetry in 4-space than it does in 2-space. The 16-cell is the 4-[[w:Cross-polytope|orthoplex]], the simplest regular 4-polytope after the [[5-cell|4-simplex]]. All the larger regular convex 4-polytopes are compounds of the 16-cell. The regular octagon exhibits this high symmetry only when embedded in 4-space at the vertices of the 16-cell.
The 16-cell constitutes an [[W:Orthonormal basis|orthonormal basis]] for the choice of a 4-dimensional Cartesian reference frame, because its vertices define four orthogonal axes. The eight vertices of a unit-radius 16-cell are (±1, 0, 0, 0), (0, ±1, 0, 0), (0, 0, ±1, 0), (0, 0, 0, ±1). All vertices are connected by <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges except opposite pairs.
The vertex coordinates of the 16-cell form 6 central squares lying in 6 pairwise [[W:Orthogonal|orthogonal]] coordinate planes. Great squares in opposite planes that do not share an axis (e.g. in the ''xy'' and ''wz'' planes) are completely disjoint (they do not intersect at any vertices). These planes are [[W:Completely orthogonal|completely orthogonal]].{{Efn|name=Six orthogonal planes of the Cartesian basis}}
Since the unit-radius coordinate system is convenient, let us derive the unit-radius 16-cell by skewing a unit-radius planar octagon, which has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{2-\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.765,r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_4=2</math>
We will need a planar octagon with rigid <math>r_2</math> chords, rather than one with rigid <math>r_1</math> edges. The octagon's <math>r_2</math> chords form two disjoint great squares, visible in the orthogonal projection, which we can reposition in 3-space to form a cube by making them parallel, and in 4-space to form a 16-cell by making them completely orthogonal.
Each chord is a distinct 4-vector with a length and a direction. Since the edges of the 16-cell are all the same length <math>r_1=\sqrt{2},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2}</math>, those chords are distinct only in the context of a rotation, where vertices circle over the chords of an <math>r_i</math> polygon. The rotational curve over each <math>r_i</math> chord makes <math>i</math> 45° turns. The angle between two <math>r_i</math> chords is <math>180^\circ - i \times 45^\circ</math>.
[[File:16-cell-orig.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 8-point 16-cell <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small> performing a double rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}}]]
[[W:Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space|Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space]] can be seen as the composition of two 2-dimensional rotations in completely orthogonal planes. The general rotation in 4-space is a [[W:SO(4)#Double rotations|double rotation]] in pairs of completely orthogonal planes. Two completely orthogonal planes are called invariant planes of the rotation when all points in the plane rotate on circles that remain in the plane, even as the whole plane tilts sideways (like a coin flipping) into another plane. The two completely orthogonal rotations of each plane (like a wheel, and like a coin flipping) are simultaneous but independent, in that they are not geometrically constrained to turn at the same rate. However, the most circular kind of rotation (as opposed to an elliptical double rotation of a rigid spherical object) occurs when the completely orthogonal planes do rotate through the same angle in the same time interval. Such equi-angled double rotations are called [[w:SO(4)#Isoclinic_rotations|isoclinic]], also [[w:William_Kingdon_Clifford|Clifford]] displacements.
The <math>r_1</math> chords of the 16-cell form a Petrie polygon {8/1} which zig-zags back and forth, in the left and right rotational directions, between two completely orthogonal great squares formed by <math>r_2</math> chords.
The <math>r_2</math> chords of the 16-cell form an ''edge polygon'' {8/2}=2{4}. The two completely orthogonal great squares lie parallel and perpendicular to each other. A ''simple'' rotation of the 16-cell in ''one'' of those two square central planes rotates that square like a wheel, while the other square does not move.{{Efn|name=simple rotations}} The four vertices of the rotating square orbit on a great circle in the plane.
The <math>r_3</math> chords of the 16-cell form a circular helix, visible as a blue {8/3} octagram in the orthogonal projection. A ''double'' rotation of the 16-cell, in both of two completely orthogonal invariant <math>r_2</math> square planes at once by equal angles, moves the eight vertices along the circular helix over <math>r_3</math> chords. The vertex motion is a [[w:Geodesic|geodesic]] circle orbit on the 3-sphere of a special kind: it does not lie in a central plane, its [[w:Winding_number|winding number]] is not 1 (it is 3 in this case), its circumference is not <math>2\pi</math> (it is <math>6\pi</math> in this case), and it moves in either a left or right handed circular spiral. We shall refer to such a chiral circle orbit as an ''isocline'', and to the skew polygram of its rotational chords as a ''Clifford polygon''.
The 16-cell is the simplest possible frame in which to [[16-cell#Rotations|observe 4-dimensional rotations]] because its characteristic rotations feature a single pair of invariant rotation planes. In the 16-cell an isoclinic rotation by 90° in any pair of invariant completely orthogonal square central planes takes every great square to its completely orthogonal great square in a twisting displacement, as the invariant planes tilt sideways 90° into each other's plane while rotating 90° internally. All the vertices move at once along the same circular helix geodesic isocline of <math>r_3</math> chords, displaced 90° in 8 orthogonal directions, and the rigid 16-cell assumes a new orientation in 4-space. When the 90° isoclinic rotation is continued in the same rotational direction through an additional 90°, each vertex is again displaced 90°, but from the new orientation in a direction orthogonal to its first 90° displacement. The rotational curve over each 90° <math>r_3</math> chord makes three 45° turns. In 360° of isoclinic rotation over four <math>r_3</math> chords, each vertex makes twelve 45° turns and reaches its antipodal position.
The trajectory of each vertex over each 90° isoclinic rotational displacement is a one-eighth segment of its geodesic orbit. Its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over eight <math>r_3</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane twice, over the four <math>r_2</math> edges of a great square in one of the two moving invariant rotation planes. In the course of a 720° isoclinic revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 16-cell returns to its original orientation.
We shall refer to this isoclinic rotation as the ''great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell'', and note once again that it is Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_3</math> {8/3} star polygon, which constructs <math>1/r_3</math>.
== The 8-cell tesseract ==
The long diameter of the unit-edge [[W:Hypercube|hypercube]] of dimension <math>n</math> is <math>\sqrt{n}</math>, so the unit-edge [[w:Tesseract|4-hypercube, the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract,]] has chords:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math>
Uniquely in its 4-dimensional case, the hypercube's edge length equals its radius, like the hexagon. We call such polytopes ''radially equilateral'', because they can be constructed from equilateral triangles which meet at their center, each contributing two radii and an edge. The [[w:Cuboctahedron|cuboctahedron]] and the 24-cell are also radially equilateral.
[[File:8-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation about a plane in 4-space.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The stationary plane bisects the figure from front-left to back-right and top to bottom.]]
The [[W:Tesseract|tesseract]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 16 vertices, 32 edges, 24 square faces, and 8 cube cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cube.
The 16-point tesseract is the convex hull of a compound of two 8-point 16-cells, in exact dimensional analogy to the way the 8-point cube is the convex hull of a [[W:Stellated octahedron|compound of two 4-point regular tetrahedrons]]. The [[W:Demihypercube|demihypercubes]] occupy alternate vertices of the hypercubes. The diagonals of the square faces of the unit-edge, unit-radius tesseract are the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges of two unit-radius 16-cells, also the edges of the square central planes.
We can rotate the tesseract isoclinically the way we rotated the 16-cell, by 90° in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on both alternate-position 16-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cell. The two skew {8/3} octagram Clifford polygons lie on two disjoint parallel isoclines of the same chirality, of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chords. They form a circular double helix which intersects each vertex of the tesseract once. The double helix is an 8-rung ladder twisted around 3 times, and bent into a circle in the fourth dimension with its ends joined. Each rung is a <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chord.
The tesseract is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 16-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew octagon, but the tesseract is a construct of 4 Petrie octagons with disjoint sets of 8 tesseract edges each. We can construct the tesseract by skewing two planar octagons. Because the tesseract is radially equilateral (unlike the 16-cell), we use two octagons of unit-edge length to build the unit-radius tesseract. To start we embed the planar octagons in 4-space at the same point and make them completely orthogonal. Then we skew each planar octagon into a cube, so we have a compound of two completely orthogonal cubes, provided we skewed them both in the same direction. The 16 vertices will be the vertices of a tesseract with half its 32 edges missing.
Because the tesseract contains two 16-cells in alternate positions it has two sets of 6 orthogonal square central planes. Two angles are required to specify the relationship between two planes in 4-space. Pairs of square central planes within each 16-cell are 90° apart in one angle, and either 0° or 90° apart in the other angle. They are 90° apart in both angles if and only if they are completely orthogonal planes, 90° apart by isoclinic rotation, with no vertices in common and their corresponding pairs of vertices 180° apart. Otherwise they are 0° apart in one of the angles, 90° apart by simple rotation, and they intersect in one axis and lie in a common 3-dimensional hyperplane.{{Efn|A double rotation in which one of the two angles of rotation is 0°, so that one of the completely orthogonal invariant planes does not rotate, is called a simple rotation. Ordinary rotations observed in a 3-dimensional space are simple rotations.|name=simple rotations}}
A pair of square central planes from alternate-position 16-cells are 60° apart by isoclinic rotation, with their corresponding pairs of vertices 120° apart. The planes are not orthogonal or parallel, so they intersect in a line somewhere, but they have no vertices in common, they have no 3-dimensional hyperplane in common, and they cannot reach each other by simple rotation. Such pairs of objects are called [[W:Clifford parallel|Clifford parallel]] because all their corresponding pairs of vertices are the same distance apart, although they are not parallel in the usual sense, because they have a common center. Not only the alternate-position 16-cells' corresponding square central planes, but also the 16-cells themselves, are Clifford parallel objects. More generally, multiple disjoint instances of a 4-polytope which compound to make a larger 4-polytope are Clifford parallel objects.
== The 24-cell ==
[[File:24-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the radially equilateral 24-cell, showing its 3 great circle polygons and its 4 chord lengths.]]
In 2-space we have the radially equilateral 6-point hexagon. In 3-space we have the radially equilateral 12-point cuboctahedron, with 4 hexagon central planes. In 4-space we have the radially equilateral 24-point 24-cell, with 12 cuboctahedron central hyperplanes and 16 hexagon central planes.
The [[24-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small>. It has 24 vertices, 96 edges, 96 equilateral triangle faces, and 24 octahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cuboctahedron.
The 24-cell has the same chord set as the 4-hypercube tesseract:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math>
[[Image:24-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 24-point 24-cell <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 24 octahedra is visible.]]
The 24-cell is [[W:Dual polytope|self-dual]], like the regular polygons and regular simplexes. It is the maximal regular construct of triangles and squares (with no pentagons). It is the convex hull of a compound of three disjoint 8-point 16-cells, rotated 60° isoclinically with respect to each other. Each of the three pairs of 16-cells is a tesseract. Each 24-cell edge is also a tesseract edge. The corresponding vertices of two 16-cells or two tesseracts are 120° apart by a <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chord. Each tesseract has 8 cube cells, and each cube has four <math>\sqrt{3}</math> long diameters. The <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords joining the corresponding vertices of two tesseracts belong to the third tesseract as cell long diameters.
The 24-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular dodecagon {12}. The unit-radius planar {12}-gon has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}-1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.518,r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}+1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.932,r_6=\sqrt{4}</math>
Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that:
:<math>r_5-r_3+r_1+r_1-r_3=1/r_5</math>
when <math>r_1=1</math>. In the system of unit-radius coordinates <math>r_1=1/r_5</math>. The procedure rotates counterclockwise over five <math>r_5</math> chords of a {12/5} dodecagram.
The <math>r_1</math> and <math>r_5</math> chords of the planar dodecagon do not occur in the 24-cell, which is a construct of eight skew dodecagons with disjoint sets of twelve <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges each. In the skew dodecagons the chord lengths are:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\sqrt{3},r_6=\sqrt{4}</math>
Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation.
The <math>r_1</math> <small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small> chords form 8 Petrie dodecagons which zig-zag back and forth, in the left and right rotational directions, between two Clifford parallel great hexagons formed by <math>r_2</math> chords. The 8 Petrie dodecagons can be divided four ways into 2 disjoint Petrie dodecagons {24/2}=2{12}.
The <math>r_2</math> <small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small> chords form 16 great hexagons, which can be divided four ways into 4 Clifford parallel great hexagons {24/4}=4{6}.
The <math>r_3</math> <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chords form 18 great squares, which can be divided three ways into 6 Clifford parallel great squares {24/6}=6{4}, including one pair of completely orthogonal great squares from each of the three 16-cells.
The <math>r_4</math> <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords form 32 great triangles, which can be divided four ways into 8 disjoint great triangles {24/8}=8{3} inscribed in 4 Clifford parallel great hexagons.
The <math>r_5</math> <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords form 8 circular helix Clifford polygons, visible as a green {12/5} dodecagram in the orthogonal projection. An isoclinic rotation of the 24-cell in 4 invariant <math>r_2</math> hexagon planes moves the vertices along 2 Clifford parallel circular isoclines {24/2}=2{12/5} over <math>r_5</math> chords.
[[File:dodecagon24cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of half a 24-cell to the [[24-cell#Geodesics|F<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only one Petrie dodecagon {12} of the 24-cell is shown. In a unit-radius 24-cell, all black lines are 24-cell edges of unit length, also tesseract edges. The two disjoint hexagons lie in Clifford parallel central planes. Blue chords are <math>\sqrt{2}</math> 16-cell edges of Clifford parallel great squares, also isocline chords in great square rotations. Green chords are <math>\sqrt{3}</math> distances between corresponding vertices of two 16-cells, also isocline chords in great hexagon rotations. The green {12/5} dodecagram is a Clifford polygon.]]
[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} shows three octagram isoclines of <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math> </small>chords in the 24-cell]]
We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 6 Clifford parallel invariant great square planes containing 16-cell edges, in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on all three 16-cells. In 720° each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cells. The rotational curve over each 90° <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chord makes three 45° turns. Three Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chords form a circular triple helix {24/9}=3{8/3} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. The triple helix is an 8-step circular staircase that twists around 3 times, and is bent into a torus in the fourth dimension. Each staircase step is a great triangle of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords.
[[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} shows 2 dodecagram isoclines of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords in the 24-cell]]We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 4 Clifford parallel invariant great hexagon planes containing 24-cell edges, over <math>r_{5}</math> isocline chords. This is the ''great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell'', also Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_5</math> {12/5} star polygon, which constructs <math>1/r_5</math>. A 24-cell great hexagon invariant plane revolution requires 720° like a 16-cell great square invariant plane revolution, but it is completed in 12 isoclinic displacements of 60° each rather than 8 isoclinic displacements of 90° each. An isoclinic rotation by 60° in a great hexagon invariant plane takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon in a twisting displacement, as 4 great hexagon invariant planes tilt sideways 60° while rotating 60° internally. It also takes every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. All 24 vertices move at once on Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 120° in different directions. The trajectory of each vertex over each 60° rotational displacement is a one-twelfth segment of its geodesic orbit. Its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space over 12 <math>r_5</math> <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane 5 times in a moving invariant rotation plane. The rotational curve over each <math>r_5</math> 120° chord makes five 30° turns. Two Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> form a circular double helix {24/10}=2{12/5} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 24-cell returns to its original orientation.
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |6 distinct 180° chord pairs make 6 distinct isoclinic rotations
|-
! colspan="3" |Short chords
!Invariant planes
! colspan="3" |Long chords
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_1</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_24.svg|100px]]<br>{24/1}={24}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-11.svg|100px]]<br>{24/11}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{11}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|165°
|15°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_2</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/2}=2{12}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_4(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/4}=4{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,5).svg|100px]]<br>{24/10}=2{12/5}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{10}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|150°
|30°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_3</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/3}=3{8}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|100px]]<br>{24/9}=3{8/3}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{9}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|135°
|45°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_4</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_4(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/4}=4{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_12(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/12}=12{2}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_8(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/8}=8{3}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{8}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|120°
|60°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_5</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-5.svg|100px]]<br>{24/5}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-7.svg|100px]]<br>{24/7}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{7}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|105°
|75°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_6</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{6}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|90°
|90°
|}
By examining the chords <math>r_i</math> of the 24-cell's Petrie {12}-gon we have found two distinct isoclinic rotations, the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell and the great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell. If we examine the chords <math>t_i</math> of the 24-cell's {24}-gon we find these, and also four other distinct isoclinic rotations.
Each row of the table describes a distinct isoclinic rotation of the 24-cell characterized by a pair of chords whose arc-lengths sum to 180°. Each chord lies in a central plane which is either a great square or a great hexagon. Each short chord plane is completely orthogonal to a corresponding long chord plane. These central planes are not to be confused with the invariant planes of the rotation, which intersect 0, 2, 4, or 6 vertices of the 24-cell as illustrated in the center column of each row.
The short chord and long chord each have their characteristic {24/''n''}-gon, which correspond as projections of the 24-cell to completely orthogonal planes. Their projection viewpoints look straight down orthogonal cylinders which are actually [[w:SO(4)#Visualization_of_4D_rotations|bent into tori in 4-space]].
Each {24/''n''}-gon forms either a compound of ''n'' disjoint Clifford parallel regular polygons, or a single regular {24/n} star polygon. Polygons with {2}, {3}, {4} or {6} sides lie in a central plane, and all others lie skew in 4-space. The rotational angle between successive short chords in 4-space and the rotational angle between successive long chords in 4-space sum to 180°. Those angles distinguish distinct chords <math>t_i</math> which are the same length.
Each isoclinic rotation takes two chiral forms. There is a ''right rotation'' and a ''left rotation'' for each row of the table. The right and left rotations are enantiomorphous reflections of each other like a pair of clasped hands, with non-congruent vertex position sequences. The right rotation takes Clifford parallel short chord polygons to each other, while the long chord polygons remain stationary in 4-space as vertices circle over them. In the left rotation the roles of the short chord polygon and the long chord polygon are reversed: the short chord polygons remain stationary in 4-space as vertices circle over them, as the rotation takes Clifford parallel long chord polygons to each other.
{{Clear}}
== The 600-cell ==
[[Image:600-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 120-point 600-cell <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2011}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 600 tetrahedra is visible. Invisible in this rendering are 25 inscribed instances of the 24-cell (above), which occur in the 600-cell as interior boundary envelopes.]]
The [[600-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small>. It has 120 vertices, 720 edges, 1200 equilateral triangle faces, and 600 tetrahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the icosahedron.
The 600-cell rounds out the 24-cell by adding 96 more vertices (four more disjoint 24-cells) between the 24-cell's existing 24 vertices, in effect adding twenty-four more distinct 24-cells inscribed in the 600-cell. The new surface thus formed is a honeycomb of smaller, more numerous cells: tetrahedra of edge length <math>\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> instead of octahedra of edge length <math>\sqrt{1}</math>. It encloses the <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges of the 24-cells, which become invisible interior chords in the 600-cell, like the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords.
Since the tetrahedra are made of shorter triangle edges than the octahedra (by a factor of <math>\phi^{-1}</math> the inverse golden ratio), the 600-cell is not radially equilateral like the 24-cell and the tesseract. Like them it is radially triangular in a special way, but one in which [[w:Golden_triangle_(mathematics)|golden triangles]] rather than equilateral triangles meet at the center.
In 2-space we have the ''radially golden'' [[W:Decagon#The golden ratio in decagon|regular decagon]]. In 3-space we have the radially golden 30-point [[W:icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]], with 6 decagon central planes. In 4-space we have the radially golden 120-point 600-cell, with 60 icosidodecahedron central hyperplanes and 72 decagon central planes.
The 600-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular [[w:Triacontagon|triacontagon {30}]]. The unit-radius planar {30}-gon has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.209</math>
:<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.416</math>
:<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.813</math>
:<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math>
:<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.338</math>
:<math>r_8=2 \cos (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.486</math>
:<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math>
:<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{11}=2 \cos (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.827</math>
:<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{13}=2 \cos (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.956</math>
:<math>r_{14}=2 \cos (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.989</math>
:<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math>
Only the chord lengths <math>r_3</math>, <math>r_5</math>, <math>r_6</math>, <math>\sqrt{2}</math>, <math>r_9</math>, <math>r_{10}</math>, <math>r_{12}</math>, <math>r_{15}</math> occur in the 600-cell, which is a construct of 24 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>r_3</math>, six of which intersect in each icosahedral vertex figure. In the skew {30}-gons the chord lengths are:
[[File:600-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the 600-cell, showing its 5 regular great circle polygons and its 8 chord lengths with angles of arc. The golden ratio governs the fractional roots of every other chord, and the radial golden triangles which meet at the center.|400x400px]]
:<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math>
:<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math>
:<math>r_8=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math>
:<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math>
:<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{11}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{13}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{14}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math>
Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation.
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |15 chords (4 distinct 180° pairs) make 4 distinct section polyhedra
|-
! colspan="3" |Short chords
! Section
! colspan="3" |Long chords
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_0</math>
|0°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2}
|180°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{15}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0}}
|{{radic|4}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0
|2
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|180°
|0°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_1</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14}=2{15/7}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{14}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|168°
|12°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_2</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{13}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|156°
|24°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_3</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V1 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{12}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|144°
|36°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_4</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{11}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|132°
|48°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_5</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V2 dodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Dodecahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{10}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|120°
|60°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{6}</math>
|72°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V3 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3}
|108°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{9}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|1.382~}}
|{{radic|2.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|1.176~
|1.618~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|108°
|72°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{7}</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V4 icosidodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosidodecahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{8}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|96°
|84°
|}
The list of 600-cell chords <math>r_{i}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 8 rows with a pair of 180° complements in each row. The short chord and long chord each have their characteristic {30/n}-gon. Each row identifies a distinct isoclinic rotation of the 600-cell.
Each distinct pair of complementary chord lengths is identified with a distinct [[w:600-cell#Polyhedral sections|polyhedral section of the 600-cell]] beginning with a vertex. In spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]], every vertex is the center of a set of 7 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>\phi^{-1}</math> is a icosahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>\sqrt{2}</math> is an [[W:Icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]] central section bisecting the 600-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>\sqrt{2}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal icosahedron vertex figure at distance <math>\sqrt{2+\phi}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 7 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section).
[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>]]
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on 15 disjoint 16-cells. Each 90° displacement takes 15 pairs of completely orthogonal invariant great square planes to each other. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. The rotational curve over each 90° chord makes three 45° turns. Fifteen Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> form a circular fibration of 15 twisted parallel strands 5{24/9}=15{8/3} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great square planes, which has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. This ''great square rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' takes place over <math>r_7</math> edge chords and <math>r_8</math> isocline chords. The {30/7} edge polygon is a skew helix of circumference <math>14\pi</math> with each <math>r_7</math> edge belonging to a distinct great square. The four {30/7} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. Each 90° displacement takes every 16-cell to another 16-cell. The vertices of the invariant great squares each make seven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/7} edge makes seven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/7} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The {30/8}=2{15/4} Clifford polygon is a compound of two skew {15/4} pentadecagrams of circumference <math>16\pi</math> with each <math>r_8</math> isocline chord belonging to a distinct 16-cell. The four {30/8} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/8} isocline chord makes eight 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/8} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
{{Clear}}
[[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> ]]
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell, over <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords, with the same effect on 5 disjoint 24-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions of its 24-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. Ten Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> form a circular fibration of ten twisted parallel strands 5{24/10}=10{12/5} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great hexagon planes, over <math>r_{4}=\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>r_{11}=\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords This ''great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. Its {30/11} Clifford polygon is a skew helix where each <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord is the <math>\sqrt{3}</math> diagonal of a great hexagon of a distinct 24-cell. The vertices of the invariant great hexagons of this rotation each make eleven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord makes eleven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/11} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>22\pi</math> over <math>r_{11}</math> chords form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in 12 Clifford parallel invariant decagon central planes containing its 36° <math>r_{3}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{12}</math> isocline chords. This ''great pentagon rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' has period 5 and takes disjoint 24-cells to each other. The rotational curve over each <math>r_{12}</math> chord of its {5/2} Clifford polygon makes twelve 12° turns. 24 Clifford parallel {5/2} pentagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>4\pi</math> over five <math>r_{12}</math> chords form a circular fibration of 24 twisted parallel strands 4{30/12}=24{5/2} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The rotation of the 600-cell by 36° in any invariant decagon central plane takes every great decagon to a Clifford parallel great decagon in a twisting displacement, as all the central planes tilt sideways 36° while rotating 36° internally. It also takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon, and every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. The 24-cells revolve within the 600-cell, as the 16-cells revolve within the 24-cells. All 120 vertices move at once on four Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 144° in different directions.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great decagon planes containing its 36° <math>r_{2}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chords. This rotation has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. The rotational curve over each 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chord makes thirteen 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/13} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>26\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
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== Finally the 120-cell ==
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |30 chords (15 180° pairs) make 15 distinct section polyhedra
|-
! colspan="3" |Short chords
! Section
! colspan="3" |Long chords
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_0</math>
|0°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2}
|180°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{30}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0}}
|{{radic|4}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0
|2
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|180°
|0°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_1</math>
|15.5~°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14}
|164.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{29}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0.073~}}
|{{radic|3.927~}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0.270~
|1.982~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|168°
|12°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_2</math>
|25.2~°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13}
|154.8~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{28}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.191~}}
|{{radic|3.809~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.437~
|1.952~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|156°
|24°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_3</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{27}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|144°
|36°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_4</math>
|41.4~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|138.6~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{26}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.5}}
|{{radic|3.5}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.707~
|1.871~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|138°
|42°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_5</math>
|44.5~°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11}
|135.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{25}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0.573~}}
|{{radic|3.427~}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0.757~
|1.851~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|132°
|48°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_6</math>
|49.1~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|130.9~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{24}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.691~}}
|{{radic|3.309~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.831~
|1.819~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|128°
|52°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_7</math>
|56°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|124°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{23}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.882~}}
|{{radic|3.118~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.939~
|1.766~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|124°
|56°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_8</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{22}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|120°
|60°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_9</math>
|66.1~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|113.9~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{21}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1.191~}}
|{{radic|2.809~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1.091~
|1.676~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|116°
|64°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{10}</math>
|69.8~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|110.2~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{20}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1.309~}}
|{{radic|2.691~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1.144~
|1.640~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|112°
|68°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{11}</math>
|72°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3}
|108°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{19}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|1.382~}}
|{{radic|2.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|1.176~
|1.618~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|108°
|72°
|- style="background: palegreen; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{12}</math>
|75.5~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4}
|104.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{18}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1.5}}
|{{radic|2.5}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1.224~
|1.581~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|96°
|84°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{13}</math>
|81.1~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|98.9~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{17}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1.691~}}
|{{radic|2.309~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1.300~
|1.520~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|°
|°
|- style="background: gainsboro; height:50px" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{14}</math>
|84.5~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|95.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{16}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.809~}}
|{{radic|2.191~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1.345~
|1.480~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|°
|°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{15}</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{15}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|90°
|90°
|}
The [[120-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 600 vertices, 1200 edges, 720 pentagon faces, and 120 dodecahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the dodecahedron.
The [[User:Dc.samizdat/Golden chords of the 120-cell#Thirty distinguished distances|list of thirty 120-cell chords]] <math>c_{t}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 16 rows and 2 columns with a pair of 180° complements in each row. This table first appears in [[w:Regular_Polytopes_(book)|''Regular Polytopes'']] (1947),{{Sfn|Coxeter|1973|loc=Table V(v): Simplified sections of {5,3,3} beginning with a vertex|pp=300-301}} where Coxeter identified each row with a distinct [[w:120-cell#Concentric_hulls|polyhedral section of the 120-cell]] beginning with a vertex. He showed that in spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] every vertex is the center of a set of 29 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>c_1</math> is a tetrahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>c_{15}</math> is a central section bisecting the 120-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>c_{15}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal tetrahedron vertex figure at distance <math>c_{29}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 29 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section). Each section also lies completely orthogonal to a congruent section.
Only 8 of the 30 chords in the table occur in the 600-cell. The 120-cell's additional chords arise originally from the regular 5-cell 4-simplex, in its interaction with the other regular 4-polytopes that compound to make the 120-cell. Since all those polytopes except the 5-cell occur in the 600-cell, and the 600-cell and the 120-cell have the same symmetry group, the 5-cell's symmetry group is the entirety of what's new in the 120-cell.
The 120-cell is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 600-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew triacontagon {30}, but the 120-cell is a construct of 40 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>c_1</math>, two of which intersect in each tetrahedral vertex figure.
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== Conclusions ==
Fontaine and Hurley's discovery is more than a geometric formula for the reciprocal of a regular ''n''-polygon diagonal. It also yields the discrete sequence of isocline chords of the characteristic isoclinic rotation of a ''d''-dimensional polytope. The characteristic rotational chord sequence of the ''d''-polytope can be represented geometrically in two dimensions on a distinct star polygon, but it lies on a geodesic circle through ''d''-dimensional space. Fontaine and Hurley discovered the geodesic topology of polytopes generally. Their procedure will reveal the geodesics of arbitrary non-uniform polytopes, since it can be applied to a polytope of any dimensionality and irregularity, by first fitting the polytope to the smallest regular polygon whose chords include its chords. [If what is meant by this is its Petrie polygon, it is not quite necessary or possible with respect to the planar polygon chords, e.g. the planar Petrie polygon of the 600-cell does not contain the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chord. But perhaps it would work if the fit is to the smallest regular skew polygon in the ''d''-space.]
The discovery of a chordal construction for discrete isoclinic rotations generally closes the circuit on Kappraff and Adamson's discovery of a rotational connection between dynamical systems, Steinbach's golden fields, and Coxeter's Euclidean geometry of reflections in ''n'' dimensions. Application of the Fontaine and Hurley procedure to the 120-cell demonstrates why the connection exists: because polytope sequences generally, from Steinbach's golden chord sequences in polygons, to sequences of star polygons in isoclinic rotations, to subsumption relations in the sequence of regular 4-polytopes, arise as expressions of the reflections and rotations of distinct Coxeter symmetry groups, when those various groups interact.
== Appendix: Sequence of regular 4-polytopes ==
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== Notes ==
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== Citations ==
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== References ==
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* {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=1997 | title=Golden fields: A case for the Heptagon | journal=Mathematics Magazine | volume=70 | issue=Feb 1997 | pages=22–31 | doi=10.1080/0025570X.1997.11996494 | jstor=2691048 | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|1997}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=2000 | title=Sections Beyond Golden| journal=Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music and Science | issue=2000 | pages=35-44 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2000/bridges2000-35.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|2000}}}}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Jablan | first2=Slavik | last3=Adamson | first3=Gary | last4=Sazdanovich | first4=Radmila | year=2004 | title=Golden Fields, Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, and Chaotic Matrices | journal=Forma | volume=19 | pages=367-387 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2005/bridges2005-369.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff, Jablan, Adamson & Sazdanovich|2004}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Adamson | first2=Gary | year=2004 | title=Polygons and Chaos | journal=Dynamical Systems and Geometric Theories | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2001/bridges2001-67.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff & Adamson|2004}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Fontaine | first1=Anne | last2=Hurley | first2=Susan | year=2006 | title=Proof by Picture: Products and Reciprocals of Diagonal Length Ratios in the Regular Polygon | journal=Forum Geometricorum | volume=6 | pages=97-101 | url=https://scispace.com/pdf/proof-by-picture-products-and-reciprocals-of-diagonal-length-1aian8mgp9.pdf }}
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= Golden chords of the 120-cell =
{{align|center|David Brooks Christie}}
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{{align|center|January 2026 - June 2026}}
<blockquote>Steinbach discovered the formula for the ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. Fontaine and Hurley extended this result, discovering a formula for the reciprocal of a regular polygon chord derived geometrically from the chord's star polygon. We observe that these findings in plane geometry apply more generally, to polytopes of any dimensionality. Fontaine and Hurley's geometric procedure for finding the reciprocals of the chords of a regular polygon from their star polygons also finds the rotational geodesics of any polytope of any dimensionality.</blockquote>
== Introduction ==
Steinbach discovered the Diagonal Product Formula and the Golden Fields family of ratios of diagonal to side in the regular polygons. He showed how this family extends beyond the pentagon {5} with its well-known golden bisection proportional to 𝜙, finding that the heptagon {7} has an analogous trisection, the nonagon {9} has an analogous quadrasection, and the hendecagon {11} has an analogous pentasection, an extended family of golden proportions with quasiperiodic properties.
Kappraff and Adamson extended these findings in plane geometry to a theory of Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, showing that the Golden Fields not only do not end with the hendecagon, they form an infinite number of periodic trajectories when operated on by the Mandelbrot operator. They found a relation between the edges of star polygons and dynamical systems in the state of chaos, revealing a connection between chaos theory, number, and rotations in Coxeter Euclidean geometry.
Fontaine and Hurley examined Steinbach's finding that the length of each chord of a regular polygon is both the product of two chords and the sum of a set of smaller chords, so that in rotations to add is to multiply. They illustrated Steinbach's sets of additive chords lying parallel to each other in the plane (pointing in the same direction), and by applying Steinbach's formula more generally they found another summation relation of signed parallel chords (pointing in opposite directions) which relates each chord length to its reciprocal, and relates the summation to a distinct star polygon rotation.
We examine these remarkable findings (which stem from study of the chords of humble regular polygons) in higher-dimensional spaces, specifically in the chords, polygons and rotations of the [[120-cell]], the largest four-dimensional regular convex polytope.
== Visualizing the 120-cell ==
{| class="wikitable floatright" width="400"
|style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:120-cell.gif|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point 120-cell <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small> performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]].{{Sfn|Hise|2011|loc=File:120-cell.gif|ps=; "Created by Jason Hise with Maya and Macromedia Fireworks. A 3D projection of a 120-cell performing a [[W:SO(4)#Geometry of 4D rotations|simple rotation]]."}} In this simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges are shown; its 29 interior chords are not rendered. Therefore even though it is translucent, only its outer surface is visible. The complex interior parts of the 120-cell, all its inscribed 5-cells, 16-cells, 8-cells, 24-cells, 600-cells and its much larger inventory of polyhedra, are completely invisible in this view, as none of their edges are rendered at all.
|style="vertical-align:top"|[[File:Ortho solid 016-uniform polychoron p33-t0.png|200px]]<br>Orthographic projection of the 600-point [[W:Great grand stellated 120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] <small><math>\{\tfrac{5}{2},3,3\}</math></small>.{{Sfn|Ruen: Great grand stellated 120-cell|2007}} The 120-cell is its convex hull. The projection to the left renders only the 120-cell's shortest chord, its 1200 edges. The projection above also renders only one of the 120-cell's 30 chords, the edges of its 120 inscribed regular 5-cells. The 120-cell itself (the convex hull) is invisible in this view, as its edges are not rendered.
|}
[[120-cell#Geometry|The 120-cell is the maximally complex regular 4-polytope]], containing inscribed instances of every regular 1-, 2-, 3-, and 4-polytope, except the regular polygons of more than {15} sides.
The 120-cell is the convex hull of a regular [[120-cell#Relationships among interior polytopes|compound of each of the 6 regular convex 4-polytopes]]. They are the [[5-cell|5-point (5-cell) 4-simplex]], the [[16-cell|8-point (16-cell) 4-orthoplex]], the [[W:Tesseract|16-point (8-cell) tesseract]], the [[24-cell|24-point (24-cell)]], the [[600-cell|120-point (600-cell)]], and the [[120-cell|600-point (120-cell)]]. The 120-cell is the convex hull of a compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells, of 75 disjoint 16-cells, of 25 disjoint 24-cells, and of 5 disjoint 600-cells.
The 120-cell contains an even larger inventory of irregular polytopes, created by the intersection of multiple instances of these component regular 4-polytopes. Many are quite unexpected, because they do not occur as components of any regular polytope smaller than the 120-cell. As just one example among the [[120-cell#Concentric hulls|sections of the 120-cell]], there is an irregular 24-point polyhedron with 16 triangle faces and 4 nonagon {9} faces.{{Sfn|Moxness|}}
Most renderings of the 120-cell, like the rotating projection here, only illustrate its outer surface, which is a honeycomb of face-bonded dodecahedral cells. Only the objects in its 3-dimensional surface are rendered, namely the 120 dodecahedra, their pentagon faces, and their edges. Although the 120-cell has chords of 30 distinct lengths, in this kind of simplified rendering only the 120-cell's own edges (its shortest chord) are shown. Its 29 interior chords, the edges of objects in the interior of the 120-cell, are not rendered, so interior objects are not visible at all.
Visualizing the complete interior of the 600-vertex 120-cell in a single image is impractical because of its complexity. Only four 120-cell edges are incident at each vertex, but [[120-cell#Chords|600 chords (of all 30 lengths)]] are incident at ''each'' vertex.
== Compounds in the 120-cell ==
The 8-point (16-cell), not the 5-point (5-cell) 4-simplex, is the smallest building block; it compounds to every larger regular 4-polytope. The 5-point (5-cell) does compound to the 600-point (120-cell), but it does not fit into any smaller regular 4-polytope.
The 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 2 in the 16-point (8-cell), and by 3 in the 24-point (24-cell). The 16-point (8-cell) compounds in the 24-point (24-cell) by 3 non-disjoint instances of itself, with each of the 24 vertices shared by two 16-point (8-cells). The 24-point (24-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell), and the 120-point (600-cell) compounds by 5 disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell).
The 24-point (24-cell) also compounds by 5<sup>2</sup> non-disjoint instances of itself in the 120-point (600-cell); it compounds in 5 disjoint instances of itself, 10 (not 5) different ways. Whichever set of 5 disjoint 24-point (24-cells) are assembled, the resulting 120-point (600-cell) contains 25 distinct 24-point (24-cells), not just 5 (or 10). Consequently 15 disjoint 8-point (16-cells) will construct a 120-point (600-cell), which contains 75 distinct 8-point (16-cells).
The 600-point (120-cell) is 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), just 2 different ways (not 5 or 10 ways), so it is 10 distinct 120-point (600-cells). Consequently the 8-point (16-cell) compounds by 3 times 5<sup>2</sup> (75) disjoint instances of itself in the 600-point (120-cell), which contains 3<sup>2</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (225) distinct instances of the 24-point (24-cell), and 3<sup>3</sup> times 5<sup>2</sup> (675) distinct instances of the 8-point (16-cell).
These facts were discovered painstakingly by various researchers, and no one has found a general rule governing subsumption relations among regular polytopes. The reasons for some of their numeric incidence relations are far from obvious. [[W:Pieter Hendrik Schoute|Schoute]] was the first to see that the 120-point (600-cell) is a compound of 5 24-point (24-cells) ''10 different ways'', and after he saw it a hundred years lapsed until Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne proved his result, and showed why.{{Sfn|Denney, Hooker, Johnson, Robinson, Butler & Claiborne|2020|loc=''The geometry of H4 polytopes''}}
So much for the compounds of 16-cells. The 120-cell is also the convex hull of the compound of 120 disjoint regular 5-cells. That stellated compound (without its convex hull of 120-cell edges) is the [[w:Great_grand_stellated_120-cell|great grand stellated 120-cell]] illustrated above, the final regular [[W:Stellation|stellation]] of the 120-cell, and the only [[W:Schläfli-Hess polychoron|regular star 4-polytope]] to have the 120-cell for its convex hull. The edges of the great grand stellated 120-cell are <math>\phi^6</math> as long as those of its 120-cell [[W:List of polyhedral stellations#Stellation process|stellation core]] deep inside.
The compound of 120 disjoint 5-point (5-cells) can be seen to be equivalent to the compound of 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells), as follows. Beginning with a single 120-point (600-cell), expand each vertex into a regular 5-cell, by adding 4 new equidistant vertices, such that the 5 vertices form a regular 5-cell inscribed in the 3-sphere. The 120 5-cells are disjoint, and the 600 vertices form 5 disjoint 120-point (600-cells): a 120-cell.
== Thirty distinguished distances ==
The 30 numbers listed in the table are all-important in Euclidean geometry. A case can be made on symmetry grounds that their squares are the 30 most important numbers between 0 and 4. The 30 rows of the table are the 30 distinct [[120-cell#Geodesic rectangles|chord lengths of the unit-radius 120-cell]], the largest regular convex 4-polytope. Since the 120-cell subsumes all smaller regular polytopes, its 30 chords are the complete chord set of all the regular polytopes that can be constructed in the first four dimensions of Euclidean space, except for regular polygons of more than 15 sides.
{| class="wikitable" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
!rowspan=2|<math>c_t</math>
!rowspan=2|arc
!rowspan=2|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{n}\right\}</math></small>
!rowspan=2|<math>\left\{p\right\}</math>
!rowspan=2|<small><math>m\left\{\frac{k}{d}\right\}</math></small>
!rowspan=2|Steinbach roots
!colspan=7|Chord lengths of the unit 120-cell
|-
!colspan=5|unit-radius length <math>c_t</math>
!colspan=2|unit-edge length <math>c_t/c_1</math><br>in 120-cell of radius <math>c_8=\sqrt{2}\phi^2</math>
|-
|<small><math>c_{1,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>15.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{30\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>c_{4,1}-c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.270091</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi ^2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^4}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.072949}</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1.</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>25.2{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>2 \left\{15\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(c_{18,1}-c_{4,1}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{3-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.437016</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2} \phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.190983}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi </math></small>
|<small><math>1.61803</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{3,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>36{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{10\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>3 \left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right) c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(\sqrt{5}-1\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>0.618034</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.381966}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>2.28825</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>41.4{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.707107</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.61803</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{5,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>44.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{4}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>2 \left\{\frac{15}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{2,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.756934</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}}{\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2 \phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.572949}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>2.80252</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{6,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>49.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{17}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{5-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.831254</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5}}{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.690983}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>3.07768</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{7,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>56.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>0.93913</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{0.881966}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>3.47709</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>60{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{6\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>1.</math></small>
|<small><math>1</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>3.70246</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{9,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>66.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{2 \phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}-\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.09132</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{\phi }}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\chi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.19098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^3}</math></small>
|<small><math>4.04057</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{10,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>69.8{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2 \sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.14412</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\phi }{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^2}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>4.23607</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{11,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>72{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{6}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{5\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.17557</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3-\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.38197}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \sqrt{3-\phi } \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.3525</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{12,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>75.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{24}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.22474</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.53457</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{13,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>81.1{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.30038</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{9-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.69098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(9-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>4.8146</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{14,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>84.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{40}{9}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi } c_{8,1}}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{1+\sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.345</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi }}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\sqrt{5} \phi }{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt[4]{5} \sqrt{\phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>4.9798</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{15,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>90.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{4\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 c_{4,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.41421</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>5.23607</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{16,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>95.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{29}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.4802</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.19098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(11-\sqrt{5}\right)} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>5.48037</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{17,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>98.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{31}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.51954</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{7+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(7+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\psi \phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>5.62605</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{18,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>104.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{8}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{4}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.58114</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{5} \sqrt{\phi ^4}</math></small>
|<small><math>5.8541</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{19,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>108.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{9}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{10}{3}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>c_{3,1}+c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>1.61803</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi </math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{1+\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.61803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2} \phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>5.9907</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{20,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>110.2{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.64042</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13-\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13-\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.69098}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\phi ^2}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.07359</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{21,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>113.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{60}{19}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.67601</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{1}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\chi }{\phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.20537</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{22,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>120{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{10}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{3\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.73205</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{6} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>6.41285</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{23,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>124.0{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{120}{41}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{\phi }+\frac{5}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{5}{2}+\frac{2}{1+\sqrt{5}}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.7658</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4-\frac{\psi }{2 \phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.11803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\chi \phi ^5}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.53779</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{24,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>130.9{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{20}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.81907</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{11+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(11+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.30902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{\sqrt{5}}{\phi }}</math></small>
|<small><math>6.73503</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{25,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>135.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{11}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{7+3 \sqrt{5}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.85123</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\phi ^2}{\sqrt{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{\phi ^4}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.42705}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^4</math></small>
|<small><math>6.8541</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{26,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>138.6{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{12}{5}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.87083</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{7}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.5}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{7} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>6.92667</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{27,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>144{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{12}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{5}{2}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{2} \left(5+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.90211</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\phi +2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{2+\phi }</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.61803}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{2 \phi +4}</math></small>
|<small><math>7.0425</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{28,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>154.8{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{13}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}} c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>1.95167</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{\sqrt{13+\sqrt{5}}}{2}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{1}{4} \left(13+\sqrt{5}\right)}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.80902}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi ^2 \sqrt{8-\frac{1}{\phi ^2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>7.22598</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{29,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>164.5{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{14}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math></math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{15}{7}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\phi c_{12,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>\frac{1}{2} \sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \left(1+\sqrt{5}\right)</math></small>
|<small><math>1.98168</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3}{2}} \phi </math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{\frac{3 \phi ^2}{2}}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3.92705}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{3} \phi ^3</math></small>
|<small><math>7.33708</math></small>
|-
|<small><math>c_{30,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>180{}^{\circ}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{\frac{30}{15}\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>\left\{2\right\}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 c_{8,1}</math></small>
|<small><math>2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.</math></small>
|<small><math>2</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4}</math></small>
|<small><math>\sqrt{4.}</math></small>
|<small><math>2 \sqrt{2} \phi ^2</math></small>
|<small><math>7.40492</math></small>
|-
|rowspan=4 colspan=6|
|rowspan=4 colspan=4|
<small><math>\phi</math></small> is the golden ratio:<br>
<small><math>\phi ^2-\phi -1=0</math></small><br>
<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }+1=\phi</math></small>, and: <small><math>\phi+1=\phi^2</math></small><br>
<small><math>\frac{1}{\phi }::1::\phi ::\phi ^2</math></small><br>
<small><math>1/\phi</math></small> and <small><math>\phi</math></small> are the golden sections of <small><math>\sqrt{5}</math></small>:<br>
<small><math>\phi +\frac{1}{\phi }=\sqrt{5}</math></small>
|colspan=2|<small><math>\phi = (\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>1.618034</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\chi = (3\sqrt{5} + 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>3.854102</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = (3\sqrt{5} - 1)/2</math></small>
|<small><math>2.854102</math></small>
|-
|colspan=2|<small><math>\psi = 11/\chi = 22/(3\sqrt{5} + 1)</math></small>
|<small><math>2.854102</math></small>
|}
== The 16-cell 4-orthoplex ==
In 2-space we have the regular 8-point octagon, in 3-space the regular 8-point cube, and in 4-space the regular 8-point [[16-cell]].
A planar octagon with rigid edges of unit length has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1,r_2=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_3=\sqrt{2}+1 \approx 2.414,r_4=\sqrt{4 + \sqrt{8}} \approx 2.613</math>
The chord ratio <math>r_3=\sqrt{2}+1</math> is a geometrical proportion, the [[W:Silver ratio|silver ratio]]. Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that:
:<math>r_3-r_1-r_1=1/r_3 \approx 0.414</math>
Note that <math>r_3-2=1/r_3=\sqrt{2}-1</math>. Their procedure rotates counterclockwise over three <math>r_3</math> chords of an {8/3} octagram. Over the first <math>r_3</math> chord the displacement is <math>\sqrt{2}+1</math>. Over the second <math>r_3</math> chord it moves in the opposite direction a distance of <math>-1</math> . Over the third <math>r_3</math> chord it also moves a distance of <math>-1</math>. Fontaine and Hurley also demonstrated the significance of <math>1/r_i</math> in Steinbach's Diagonal Product Formula, which says that every chord length is the sum of certain smaller chord lengths. The smaller chords are certain diagonals of the same regular polygon of a smaller edge length, specifically edge length <math>1/r_i</math> rather than <math>1</math>.
If we embed the planar octagon in 3-space, we can make it skew, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from three others instead of two others, at the vertices of a unit-edge cube with chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1, r_2=\sqrt{2}, r_3=\sqrt{3}, r_4=\sqrt{2}</math>
If we embed this cube in 4-space, we can skew it some more, repositioning its vertices so that each is one unit-edge length distant from six others instead of three others, at the vertices of a unit-edge 4-polytope with chords of length:
:<math>r_1=1,r_2=1,r_3=1,r_4=\sqrt{2}</math>
All of its chords except its long diameters are the same unit length as its edge. In fact they are its 24 edges, and it is a 16-cell of radius <math>1/\sqrt{2}</math>.
[[File:octagon16cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of a regular 16-cell to the [[16-cell#Projections|B<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only its edges are shown; its long diameter chords are not drawn. All 24 edges are the same length and none lie parallel to the projection plane. The octagon circumference is a Petrie polygon. The two disjoint squares lie in completely orthogonal central planes. The blue octagram is a Clifford polygon. ]]
The [[16-cell]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small>. It has 8 vertices, 24 edges, 32 equilateral triangle faces, and 16 regular tetrahedron cells. It is the [[16-cell#Octahedral dipyramid|four-dimensional analogue of the octahedron]], and each of its four orthogonal central hyperplanes is an octahedron.
The only planar regular polygons found in the 16-cell are face triangles and central plane squares, but the 16-cell also contains a skew regular octagon, its [[W:Petrie polygon|Petrie polygon]].{{Efn|name=Petrie polygon of a honeycomb}} The chords of this regular octagon, which lies skew in 4-space, are those given above for the 16-cell, as opposed to those for the cube or the regular octagon in the plane. The 16-cell is a construct of 3 Petrie octagons which share the same 8 vertices but have disjoint sets of 8 edges each.
The regular octad has higher symmetry in 4-space than it does in 2-space. The 16-cell is the 4-[[w:Cross-polytope|orthoplex]], the simplest regular 4-polytope after the [[5-cell|4-simplex]]. All the larger regular convex 4-polytopes are compounds of the 16-cell. The regular octagon exhibits this high symmetry only when embedded in 4-space at the vertices of the 16-cell.
The 16-cell constitutes an [[W:Orthonormal basis|orthonormal basis]] for the choice of a 4-dimensional Cartesian reference frame, because its vertices define four orthogonal axes. The eight vertices of a unit-radius 16-cell are (±1, 0, 0, 0), (0, ±1, 0, 0), (0, 0, ±1, 0), (0, 0, 0, ±1). All vertices are connected by <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges except opposite pairs.
The vertex coordinates of the 16-cell form 6 central squares lying in 6 pairwise [[W:Orthogonal|orthogonal]] coordinate planes. Great squares in opposite planes that do not share an axis (e.g. in the ''xy'' and ''wz'' planes) are completely disjoint (they do not intersect at any vertices). These planes are [[W:Completely orthogonal|completely orthogonal]].{{Efn|name=Six orthogonal planes of the Cartesian basis}}
Since the unit-radius coordinate system is convenient, let us derive the unit-radius 16-cell by skewing a unit-radius planar octagon, which has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{2-\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.765,r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2+\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.848,r_4=2</math>
We will need a planar octagon with rigid <math>r_2</math> chords, rather than one with rigid <math>r_1</math> edges. The octagon's <math>r_2</math> chords form two disjoint great squares, visible in the orthogonal projection, which we can reposition in 3-space to form a cube by making them parallel, and in 4-space to form a 16-cell by making them completely orthogonal.
Each chord is a distinct 4-vector with a length and a direction. Since the edges of the 16-cell are all the same length <math>r_1=\sqrt{2},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{2}</math>, those chords are distinct only in the context of a rotation, where vertices circle over the chords of an <math>r_i</math> polygon. The rotational curve over each <math>r_i</math> chord makes <math>i</math> 45° turns. The angle between two <math>r_i</math> chords is <math>180^\circ - i \times 45^\circ</math>.
[[File:16-cell-orig.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 8-point 16-cell <small><math>\{3,3,4\}</math></small> performing a double rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}}]]
[[W:Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space|Rotations in 4-dimensional Euclidean space]] can be seen as the composition of two 2-dimensional rotations in completely orthogonal planes. The general rotation in 4-space is a [[W:SO(4)#Double rotations|double rotation]] in pairs of completely orthogonal planes. Two completely orthogonal planes are called invariant planes of the rotation when all points in the plane rotate on circles that remain in the plane, even as the whole plane tilts sideways (like a coin flipping) into another plane. The two completely orthogonal rotations of each plane (like a wheel, and like a coin flipping) are simultaneous but independent, in that they are not geometrically constrained to turn at the same rate. However, the most circular kind of rotation (as opposed to an elliptical double rotation of a rigid spherical object) occurs when the completely orthogonal planes do rotate through the same angle in the same time interval. Such equi-angled double rotations are called [[w:SO(4)#Isoclinic_rotations|isoclinic]], also [[w:William_Kingdon_Clifford|Clifford]] displacements.
The <math>r_1</math> chords of the 16-cell form a Petrie polygon {8/1} which zig-zags back and forth, in the left and right rotational directions, between two completely orthogonal great squares formed by <math>r_2</math> chords.
The <math>r_2</math> chords of the 16-cell form an ''edge polygon'' {8/2}=2{4}. The two completely orthogonal great squares lie parallel and perpendicular to each other. A ''simple'' rotation of the 16-cell in ''one'' of those two square central planes rotates that square like a wheel, while the other square does not move.{{Efn|name=simple rotations}} The four vertices of the rotating square orbit on a great circle in the plane.
The <math>r_3</math> chords of the 16-cell form a circular helix, visible as a blue {8/3} octagram in the orthogonal projection. A ''double'' rotation of the 16-cell, in both of two completely orthogonal invariant <math>r_2</math> square planes at once by equal angles, moves the eight vertices along the circular helix over <math>r_3</math> chords. The vertex motion is a [[w:Geodesic|geodesic]] circle orbit on the 3-sphere of a special kind: it does not lie in a central plane, its [[w:Winding_number|winding number]] is not 1 (it is 3 in this case), its circumference is not <math>2\pi</math> (it is <math>6\pi</math> in this case), and it moves in either a left or right handed circular spiral. We shall refer to such a chiral circle orbit as an ''isocline'', and to the skew polygram of its rotational chords as a ''Clifford polygon''.
The 16-cell is the simplest possible frame in which to [[16-cell#Rotations|observe 4-dimensional rotations]] because its characteristic rotations feature a single pair of invariant rotation planes. In the 16-cell an isoclinic rotation by 90° in any pair of invariant completely orthogonal square central planes takes every great square to its completely orthogonal great square in a twisting displacement, as the invariant planes tilt sideways 90° into each other's plane while rotating 90° internally. All the vertices move at once along the same circular helix geodesic isocline of <math>r_3</math> chords, displaced 90° in 8 orthogonal directions, and the rigid 16-cell assumes a new orientation in 4-space. When the 90° isoclinic rotation is continued in the same rotational direction through an additional 90°, each vertex is again displaced 90°, but from the new orientation in a direction orthogonal to its first 90° displacement. The rotational curve over each 90° <math>r_3</math> chord makes three 45° turns. In 360° of isoclinic rotation over four <math>r_3</math> chords, each vertex makes twelve 45° turns and reaches its antipodal position.
The trajectory of each vertex over each 90° isoclinic rotational displacement is a one-eighth segment of its geodesic orbit. Its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over eight <math>r_3</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane twice, over the four <math>r_2</math> edges of a great square in one of the two moving invariant rotation planes. In the course of a 720° isoclinic revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 16-cell returns to its original orientation.
We shall refer to this isoclinic rotation as the ''great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell'', and note once again that it is Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_3</math> {8/3} star polygon, which constructs <math>1/r_3</math>.
== The 8-cell tesseract ==
The long diameter of the unit-edge [[W:Hypercube|hypercube]] of dimension <math>n</math> is <math>\sqrt{n}</math>, so the unit-edge [[w:Tesseract|4-hypercube, the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract,]] has chords:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math>
Uniquely in its 4-dimensional case, the hypercube's edge length equals its radius, like the hexagon. We call such polytopes ''radially equilateral'', because they can be constructed from equilateral triangles which meet at their center, each contributing two radii and an edge. The [[w:Cuboctahedron|cuboctahedron]] and the 24-cell are also radially equilateral.
[[File:8-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 16-point (8-cell) tesseract <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation about a plane in 4-space.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The stationary plane bisects the figure from front-left to back-right and top to bottom.]]
The [[W:Tesseract|tesseract]] is the [[W:Regular convex 4-polytope|regular convex 4-polytope]] with [[W:Schläfli symbol|Schläfli symbol]] <small><math>\{4,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 16 vertices, 32 edges, 24 square faces, and 8 cube cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cube.
The 16-point tesseract is the convex hull of a compound of two 8-point 16-cells, in exact dimensional analogy to the way the 8-point cube is the convex hull of a [[W:Stellated octahedron|compound of two 4-point regular tetrahedrons]]. The [[W:Demihypercube|demihypercubes]] occupy alternate vertices of the hypercubes. The diagonals of the square faces of the unit-edge, unit-radius tesseract are the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> edges of two unit-radius 16-cells, also the edges of the square central planes.
We can rotate the tesseract isoclinically the way we rotated the 16-cell, by 90° in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on both alternate-position 16-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cell. The two skew {8/3} octagram Clifford polygons lie on two disjoint parallel isoclines of the same chirality, of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chords. They form a circular double helix which intersects each vertex of the tesseract once. The double helix is an 8-rung ladder twisted around 3 times, and bent into a circle in the fourth dimension with its ends joined. Each rung is a <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chord.
The tesseract is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 16-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew octagon, but the tesseract is a construct of 4 Petrie octagons with disjoint sets of 8 tesseract edges each. We can construct the tesseract by skewing two planar octagons. Because the tesseract is radially equilateral (unlike the 16-cell), we use two octagons of unit-edge length to build the unit-radius tesseract. To start we embed the planar octagons in 4-space at the same point and make them completely orthogonal. Then we skew each planar octagon into a cube, so we have a compound of two completely orthogonal cubes, provided we skewed them both in the same direction. The 16 vertices will be the vertices of a tesseract with half its 32 edges missing.
Because the tesseract contains two 16-cells in alternate positions it has two sets of 6 orthogonal square central planes. Two angles are required to specify the relationship between two planes in 4-space. Pairs of square central planes within each 16-cell are 90° apart in one angle, and either 0° or 90° apart in the other angle. They are 90° apart in both angles if and only if they are completely orthogonal planes, 90° apart by isoclinic rotation, with no vertices in common and their corresponding pairs of vertices 180° apart. Otherwise they are 0° apart in one of the angles, 90° apart by simple rotation, and they intersect in one axis and lie in a common 3-dimensional hyperplane.{{Efn|A double rotation in which one of the two angles of rotation is 0°, so that one of the completely orthogonal invariant planes does not rotate, is called a simple rotation. Ordinary rotations observed in a 3-dimensional space are simple rotations.|name=simple rotations}}
A pair of square central planes from alternate-position 16-cells are 60° apart by isoclinic rotation, with their corresponding pairs of vertices 120° apart. The planes are not orthogonal or parallel, so they intersect in a line somewhere, but they have no vertices in common, they have no 3-dimensional hyperplane in common, and they cannot reach each other by simple rotation. Such pairs of objects are called [[W:Clifford parallel|Clifford parallel]] because all their corresponding pairs of vertices are the same distance apart, although they are not parallel in the usual sense, because they have a common center. Not only the alternate-position 16-cells' corresponding square central planes, but also the 16-cells themselves, are Clifford parallel objects. More generally, multiple disjoint instances of a 4-polytope which compound to make a larger 4-polytope are Clifford parallel objects.
== The 24-cell ==
[[File:24-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the radially equilateral 24-cell, showing its 3 great circle polygons and its 4 chord lengths.]]
In 2-space we have the radially equilateral 6-point hexagon. In 3-space we have the radially equilateral 12-point cuboctahedron, with 4 hexagon central planes. In 4-space we have the radially equilateral 24-point 24-cell, with 12 cuboctahedron central hyperplanes and 16 hexagon central planes.
The [[24-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small>. It has 24 vertices, 96 edges, 96 equilateral triangle faces, and 24 octahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the cuboctahedron.
The 24-cell has the same chord set as the 4-hypercube tesseract:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{2},r_3=\sqrt{3},r_4=\sqrt{4}</math>
[[Image:24-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 24-point 24-cell <small><math>\{3,4,3\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2007}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 24 octahedra is visible.]]
The 24-cell is [[W:Dual polytope|self-dual]], like the regular polygons and regular simplexes. It is the maximal regular construct of triangles and squares (with no pentagons). It is the convex hull of a compound of three completely disjoint 8-point 16-cells, rotated 60° isoclinically with respect to each other. Each of the three pairs of 16-cells is a tesseract. Each 24-cell edge is also a tesseract edge. The corresponding vertices of two 16-cells or two tesseracts are 120° apart by a <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chord. Each tesseract has 8 cube cells, and each cube has four <math>\sqrt{3}</math> long diameters. The <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords joining the corresponding vertices of two tesseracts belong to the third tesseract as cell long diameters.
The 24-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular dodecagon {12}. The unit-radius planar {12}-gon has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}-1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 0.518,r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\tfrac{\sqrt{3}+1}{\sqrt{2}} \approx 1.932,r_6=\sqrt{4}</math>
Fontaine and Hurley's procedure for obtaining the reciprocal of a chord tells us that:
:<math>r_5-r_3+r_1+r_1-r_3=1/r_5</math>
when <math>r_1=1</math>. In the system of unit-radius coordinates <math>r_1=1/r_5</math>. The procedure rotates counterclockwise over five <math>r_5</math> chords of a {12/5} dodecagram.
The <math>r_1</math> and <math>r_5</math> chords of the planar dodecagon do not occur in the 24-cell, which is a construct of eight skew dodecagons with disjoint sets of twelve <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges each. In the skew dodecagons the chord lengths are:
:<math>r_1=\sqrt{1},r_2=\sqrt{1},r_3=\sqrt{2},r_4=\sqrt{3},r_5=\sqrt{3},r_6=\sqrt{4}</math>
Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation.
The <math>r_1</math> <small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small> chords form 8 Petrie dodecagons which zig-zag back and forth, in the left and right rotational directions, between two Clifford parallel great hexagons formed by <math>r_2</math> chords. The 8 Petrie dodecagons can be divided four ways into 2 disjoint Petrie dodecagons {24/2}=2{12}.
The <math>r_2</math> <small><math>\sqrt{1}</math></small> chords form 16 great hexagons, which can be divided four ways into 4 Clifford parallel great hexagons {24/4}=4{6}.
The <math>r_3</math> <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chords form 18 great squares, which can be divided three ways into 6 Clifford parallel great squares {24/6}=6{4}, including one pair of completely orthogonal great squares from each of the three 16-cells.
The <math>r_4</math> <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords form 32 great triangles, which can be divided four ways into 8 disjoint great triangles {24/8}=8{3} inscribed in 4 Clifford parallel great hexagons.
The <math>r_5</math> <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords form 8 circular helix Clifford polygons, visible as a green {12/5} dodecagram in the orthogonal projection. An isoclinic rotation of the 24-cell in 4 invariant <math>r_2</math> hexagon planes moves the vertices along 2 Clifford parallel circular isoclines {24/2}=2{12/5} over <math>r_5</math> chords.
[[File:dodecagon24cell.png|thumb|Orthogonal projection of half a 24-cell to the [[24-cell#Geodesics|F<sub>4</sub> Coxeter plane]]. Only one Petrie dodecagon {12} of the 24-cell is shown. In a unit-radius 24-cell, all black lines are 24-cell edges of unit length, also tesseract edges. The two disjoint hexagons lie in Clifford parallel central planes. Blue chords are <math>\sqrt{2}</math> 16-cell edges of Clifford parallel great squares, also isocline chords in great square rotations. Green chords are <math>\sqrt{3}</math> distances between corresponding vertices of two 16-cells, also isocline chords in great hexagon rotations. The green {12/5} dodecagram is a Clifford polygon.]]
[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} shows three octagram isoclines of <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math> </small>chords in the 24-cell]]
We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 6 Clifford parallel invariant great square planes containing 16-cell edges, in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on all three 16-cells. In 720° each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, but it does not visit the vertex positions of the other 16-cells. The rotational curve over each 90° <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chord makes three 45° turns. Three Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> over <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small> chords form a circular triple helix {24/9}=3{8/3} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. The triple helix is an 8-step circular staircase that twists around 3 times, and is bent into a torus in the fourth dimension. Each staircase step is a great triangle of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords.
[[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} shows 2 dodecagram isoclines of <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> chords in the 24-cell]]We can rotate the 24-cell isoclinically in 4 Clifford parallel invariant great hexagon planes containing 24-cell edges, over <math>r_{5}</math> isocline chords. This is the ''great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell'', also Fontaine and Hurley's counterclockwise rotation over the <math>r_5</math> {12/5} star polygon, which constructs <math>1/r_5</math>. A 24-cell great hexagon invariant plane revolution requires 720° like a 16-cell great square invariant plane revolution, but it is completed in 12 isoclinic displacements of 60° each rather than 8 isoclinic displacements of 90° each. An isoclinic rotation by 60° in a great hexagon invariant plane takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon in a twisting displacement, as 4 great hexagon invariant planes tilt sideways 60° while rotating 60° internally. It also takes every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. All 24 vertices move at once on Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 120° in different directions. The trajectory of each vertex over each 60° rotational displacement is a one-twelfth segment of its geodesic orbit. Its entire orbit traces an isocline circle in 4-space over 12 <math>r_5</math> <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords, and also traces an ordinary great circle in the plane 5 times in a moving invariant rotation plane. The rotational curve over each <math>r_5</math> 120° chord makes five 30° turns. Two Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> form a circular double helix {24/10}=2{12/5} that intersects each 24-cell vertex once. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions just once and returns to its original position, and the 24-cell returns to its original orientation.
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |6 distinct 180° chord pairs make 6 distinct isoclinic rotations
|-
! colspan="3" |Short chords
!Invariant planes
! colspan="3" |Long chords
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_1</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_24.svg|100px]]<br>{24/1}={24}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-11.svg|100px]]<br>{24/11}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{11}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|165°
|15°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_2</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/2}=2{12}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_4(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/4}=4{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(12,5).svg|100px]]<br>{24/10}=2{12/5}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{10}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|150°
|30°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_3</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/3}=3{8}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|100px]]<br>{24/9}=3{8/3}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{9}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|135°
|45°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_4</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_4(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/4}=4{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_12(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/12}=12{2}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_8(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/8}=8{3}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{8}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|120°
|60°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_5</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-5.svg|100px]]<br>{24/5}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_24-7.svg|100px]]<br>{24/7}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{7}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|105°
|75°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_6</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(4,1).svg|100px]]<br>{24/6}=6{4}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>t_{6}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|90°
|90°
|}
By examining the chords <math>r_i</math> of the 24-cell's Petrie {12}-gon we have found two distinct isoclinic rotations, the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell and the great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell. If we examine the chords <math>t_i</math> of the 24-cell's {24}-gon we find these, and also four other distinct isoclinic rotations.
Each row of the table describes a distinct isoclinic rotation of the 24-cell characterized by a pair of chords whose arc-lengths sum to 180°. Each chord lies in a central plane which is either a great square or a great hexagon. Each short chord plane is completely orthogonal to a corresponding long chord plane. These central planes are not to be confused with the invariant planes of the rotation, which intersect 0, 2, 4, or 6 vertices of the 24-cell as illustrated in the center column of each row.
The short chord and long chord each have their characteristic {24/''n''}-gon, which correspond as projections of the 24-cell to completely orthogonal planes. Their projection viewpoints look straight down orthogonal cylinders which are actually [[w:SO(4)#Visualization_of_4D_rotations|bent into tori in 4-space]].
Each {24/''n''}-gon forms either a compound of ''n'' disjoint Clifford parallel regular polygons, or a single regular {24/n} star polygon. Polygons with {2}, {3}, {4} or {6} sides lie in a central plane, and all others lie skew in 4-space. The rotational angle between successive short chords in 4-space and the rotational angle between successive long chords in 4-space sum to 180°. Those angles distinguish distinct chords <math>t_i</math> which are the same length.
Each isoclinic rotation takes two chiral forms. There is a ''right rotation'' and a ''left rotation'' for each row of the table. The right and left rotations are enantiomorphous reflections of each other like a pair of clasped hands, with non-congruent vertex position sequences. The right rotation takes Clifford parallel short chord polygons to each other, while the long chord polygons remain stationary in 4-space as vertices circle over them. In the left rotation the roles of the short chord polygon and the long chord polygon are reversed: the short chord polygons remain stationary in 4-space as vertices circle over them, as the rotation takes Clifford parallel long chord polygons to each other.
{{Clear}}
== The 600-cell ==
[[Image:600-cell.gif|thumb|Orthographic projection of the 120-point 600-cell <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small> performing a simple rotation.{{Sfn|Hise|2011}} The 3-dimensional surface made of 600 tetrahedra is visible. Invisible in this rendering are 25 inscribed instances of the 24-cell (above), which occur in the 600-cell as interior boundary envelopes.]]
The [[600-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{3,3,5\}</math></small>. It has 120 vertices, 720 edges, 1200 equilateral triangle faces, and 600 tetrahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the icosahedron.
The 600-cell rounds out the 24-cell by adding 96 more vertices (four more disjoint 24-cells) between the 24-cell's existing 24 vertices, in effect adding twenty-four more distinct 24-cells inscribed in the 600-cell. The new surface thus formed is a honeycomb of smaller, more numerous cells: tetrahedra of edge length <math>\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math> instead of octahedra of edge length <math>\sqrt{1}</math>. It encloses the <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edges of the 24-cells, which become invisible interior chords in the 600-cell, like the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> chords.
Since the tetrahedra are made of shorter triangle edges than the octahedra (by a factor of <math>\phi^{-1}</math> the inverse golden ratio), the 600-cell is not radially equilateral like the 24-cell and the tesseract. Like them it is radially triangular in a special way, but one in which [[w:Golden_triangle_(mathematics)|golden triangles]] rather than equilateral triangles meet at the center.
In 2-space we have the ''radially golden'' [[W:Decagon#The golden ratio in decagon|regular decagon]]. In 3-space we have the radially golden 30-point [[W:icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]], with 6 decagon central planes. In 4-space we have the radially golden 120-point 600-cell, with 60 icosidodecahedron central hyperplanes and 72 decagon central planes.
The 600-cell's Petrie polygon is the regular [[w:Triacontagon|triacontagon {30}]]. The unit-radius planar {30}-gon has chords of length:
:<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.209</math>
:<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.416</math>
:<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 0.813</math>
:<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math>
:<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.338</math>
:<math>r_8=2 \cos (\tfrac{7\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.486</math>
:<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math>
:<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{11}=2 \cos (\tfrac{4\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.827</math>
:<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{13}=2 \cos (\tfrac{2\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.956</math>
:<math>r_{14}=2 \cos (\tfrac{\pi}{15}/2) \approx 1.989</math>
:<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math>
Only the chord lengths <math>r_3</math>, <math>r_5</math>, <math>r_6</math>, <math>\sqrt{2}</math>, <math>r_9</math>, <math>r_{10}</math>, <math>r_{12}</math>, <math>r_{15}</math> occur in the 600-cell, which is a construct of 24 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>r_3</math>, six of which intersect in each icosahedral vertex figure. In the skew {30}-gons the chord lengths are:
[[File:600-cell vertex geometry.png|thumb|Planar geometry of the 600-cell, showing its 5 regular great circle polygons and its 8 chord lengths with angles of arc. The golden ratio governs the fractional roots of every other chord, and the radial golden triangles which meet at the center.|400x400px]]
:<math>r_1=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_2=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_3=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{5}/2)=\phi^{-1} \approx 0.618</math>
:<math>r_4=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_5=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{1}</math>
:<math>r_6=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{3-\phi} \approx 1.176</math>
:<math>r_7=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math>
:<math>r_8=2 \sin (\tfrac{\pi}{2}/2)=\sqrt{2}</math>
:<math>r_9=2 \sin (\tfrac{3\pi}{5}/2)=\phi \approx 1.618</math>
:<math>r_{10}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{11}=2 \sin (\tfrac{2\pi}{3}/2)=\sqrt{3}</math>
:<math>r_{12}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{13}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{14}=2 \sin (\tfrac{4\pi}{5}/2)=\sqrt{2+\phi} \approx 1.902</math>
:<math>r_{15}=2 \sin (\pi/2)=\sqrt{4}</math>
Where chords are the same length, they are distinct only in the context of a rotation.
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |15 chords (4 distinct 180° pairs) make 4 distinct section polyhedra
|-
! colspan="3" |Short chords
! Section
! colspan="3" |Long chords
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_0</math>
|0°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2}
|180°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{15}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0}}
|{{radic|4}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0
|2
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|180°
|0°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_1</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14}=2{15/7}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{14}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|168°
|12°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_2</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{13}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|156°
|24°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_3</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V1 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{12}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|144°
|36°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_4</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/4}=2{15/2}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-11.svg|100px]]<br>{30/11}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{11}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|132°
|48°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_5</math>
|60°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_5(6,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/5}=5{6}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V2 dodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Dodecahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_10(3,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/10}=10{3}
|120°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{10}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|1}}
|{{radic|3}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|1
|1.732~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|120°
|60°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{6}</math>
|72°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/6}=6{5}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V3 icosahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,3).svg|100px]]<br>{30/9}=3{10/3}
|108°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{9}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|1.382~}}
|{{radic|2.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|1.176~
|1.618~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|108°
|72°
|- style="background: seashell;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{7}</math>
|90°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-7.svg|100px]]<br>{30/7}
| rowspan="4" |[[File:V4 icosidodecahedron.png|100px]]<br>Icosidodecahedron
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,4).svg|100px]]<br>{30/8}=2{15/4}
|90°
| rowspan="4" |<math>r_{8}</math>
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|{{radic|2}}
|{{radic|2}}
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|1.414~
|1.414~
|- style="background: seashell;" |
|96°
|84°
|}
The list of 600-cell chords <math>r_{i}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 8 rows with a pair of 180° complements in each row. The short chord and long chord each have their characteristic {30/n}-gon. Each row identifies a distinct isoclinic rotation of the 600-cell.
Each distinct pair of complementary chord lengths is identified with a distinct [[w:600-cell#Polyhedral sections|polyhedral section of the 600-cell]] beginning with a vertex. In spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]], every vertex is the center of a set of 7 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>\phi^{-1}</math> is a icosahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>\sqrt{2}</math> is an [[W:Icosidodecahedron|icosidodecahedron]] central section bisecting the 600-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>\sqrt{2}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal icosahedron vertex figure at distance <math>\sqrt{2+\phi}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 7 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section).
[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(8,3).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/9}=3{8/3} <small><math>\sqrt{2}</math></small>]]
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great square rotation characteristic of the 16-cell, with the same effect on 15 disjoint 16-cells. Each 90° displacement takes 15 pairs of completely orthogonal invariant great square planes to each other. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from all 8 vertex positions of its 16-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. The rotational curve over each 90° chord makes three 45° turns. Fifteen Clifford parallel {8/3} octagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>6\pi</math> form a circular fibration of 15 twisted parallel strands 5{24/9}=15{8/3} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great square planes, which has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. This ''great square rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' takes place over <math>r_7</math> edge chords and <math>r_8</math> isocline chords. The {30/7} edge polygon is a skew helix of circumference <math>14\pi</math> with each <math>r_7</math> edge belonging to a distinct great square. The four {30/7} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. Each 90° displacement takes every 16-cell to another 16-cell. The vertices of the invariant great squares each make seven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/7} edge makes seven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/7} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once. The {30/8}=2{15/4} Clifford polygon is a compound of two skew {15/4} pentadecagrams of circumference <math>16\pi</math> with each <math>r_8</math> isocline chord belonging to a distinct 16-cell. The four {30/8} polygrams contribute one edge each to 30 great squares. The rotational curve over each 90° {30/8} isocline chord makes eight 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/8} geodesics of circumference <math>16\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
{{Clear}}
[[File:Regular star figure 2(12,5).svg|thumb|left|150px|{24/10}=2{12/5} <small><math>\sqrt{3}</math></small> ]]
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in the great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 24-cell, over <math>\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords, with the same effect on 5 disjoint 24-cells. In the course of a 720° revolution each vertex departs from 12 vertex positions of its 24-cell just once and returns to its original position, without visiting other vertex positions. Ten Clifford parallel {12/5} dodecagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>10\pi</math> form a circular fibration of ten twisted parallel strands 5{24/10}=10{12/5} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great hexagon planes, over <math>r_{4}=\sqrt{1}</math> edge chords and <math>r_{11}=\sqrt{3}</math> isocline chords This ''great hexagon rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. Its {30/11} Clifford polygon is a skew helix where each <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord is the <math>\sqrt{3}</math> diagonal of a great hexagon of a distinct 24-cell. The vertices of the invariant great hexagons of this rotation each make eleven orbits on a great circle within the moving invariant plane in the course of one complete revolution. The rotational curve over each 120° <math>r_{11}</math> isocline chord makes eleven 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/11} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>22\pi</math> over <math>r_{11}</math> chords form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
We can rotate the 600-cell isoclinically in 12 Clifford parallel invariant decagon central planes containing its 36° <math>r_{3}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{12}</math> isocline chords. This ''great pentagon rotation characteristic of the 600-cell'' has period 5 and takes disjoint 24-cells to each other. The rotational curve over each <math>r_{12}</math> chord of its {5/2} Clifford polygon makes twelve 12° turns. 24 Clifford parallel {5/2} pentagram geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>4\pi</math> over five <math>r_{12}</math> chords form a circular fibration of 24 twisted parallel strands 4{30/12}=24{5/2} that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
The rotation of the 600-cell by 36° in any invariant decagon central plane takes every great decagon to a Clifford parallel great decagon in a twisting displacement, as all the central planes tilt sideways 36° while rotating 36° internally. It also takes every great hexagon to a Clifford parallel great hexagon, and every great square to a Clifford parallel great square. The 24-cells revolve within the 600-cell, as the 16-cells revolve within the 24-cells. All 120 vertices move at once on four Clifford parallel geodesic isoclines, displaced 144° in different directions.
The 600-cell has another distinct isoclinic rotation in invariant great decagon planes containing its 36° <math>r_{2}</math> edges, over 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chords. This rotation has period 30 and visits every vertex of a 600-cell Petrie polygon. The rotational curve over each 144° <math>r_{13}</math> isocline chord makes thirteen 12° turns. Four Clifford parallel {30/13} geodesic isoclines of circumference <math>26\pi</math> form a circular quadruple helix that intersects each 600-cell vertex once.
{{Clear}}
== Finally the 120-cell ==
{| class="wikitable floatright" style="white-space:nowrap;text-align:center"
! colspan="7" |30 chords (15 180° pairs) make 15 distinct section polyhedra
|-
! colspan="3" |Short chords
! Section
! colspan="3" |Long chords
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_0</math>
|0°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_15(2,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/15}=15{2}
|180°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{30}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0}}
|{{radic|4}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0
|2
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|180°
|0°
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_1</math>
|15.5~°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_polygon_30.svg|100px]]<br>{30/1}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,7).svg|100px]]<br>{30/14}
|164.5~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{29}</math>
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|{{radic|0.073~}}
|{{radic|3.927~}}
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|0.270~
|1.982~
|- style="background: palegreen;" |
|168°
|12°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_2</math>
|25.2~°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_2(15,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/2}=2{15}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_polygon_30-13.svg|100px]]<br>{30/13}
|154.8~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{28}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|{{radic|0.191~}}
|{{radic|3.809~}}
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|0.437~
|1.952~
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
|156°
|24°
|- style="background: yellow;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_3</math>
|36°
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_3(10,1).svg|100px]]<br>{30/3}=3{10}
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |[[File:Regular_star_figure_6(5,2).svg|100px]]<br>{30/12}=6{5/2}
|144°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{27}</math>
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|{{radic|0.382~}}
|{{radic|3.618~}}
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|0.618~
|1.902~
|- style="background: yellow;" |
|144°
|36°
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_4</math>
|41.4~°
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
| rowspan="4" |
|138.6~°
| rowspan="4" |<math>c_{26}</math>
|- style="background: gainsboro;" |
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The [[120-cell]] is the regular convex 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol <small><math>\{5,3,3\}</math></small>. It has 600 vertices, 1200 edges, 720 pentagon faces, and 120 dodecahedron cells. It is the four-dimensional analogue of the dodecahedron.
The [[User:Dc.samizdat/Golden chords of the 120-cell#Thirty distinguished distances|list of thirty 120-cell chords]] <math>c_{t}</math> can be rearranged into a table of 16 rows and 2 columns with a pair of 180° complements in each row. This table first appears in [[w:Regular_Polytopes_(book)|''Regular Polytopes'']] (1947),{{Sfn|Coxeter|1973|loc=Table V(v): Simplified sections of {5,3,3} beginning with a vertex|pp=300-301}} where Coxeter identified each row with a distinct [[w:120-cell#Concentric_hulls|polyhedral section of the 120-cell]] beginning with a vertex. He showed that in spherical [[w:3-sphere|3-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] every vertex is the center of a set of 29 concentric polyhedra of increasing radii that nest like [[w:Matryoshka_doll|Russian dolls.]] The smallest polyhedral section at radial distance <math>c_1</math> is a tetrahedron vertex figure, and the largest section at radial distance <math>c_{15}</math> is a central section bisecting the 120-cell. Because [[w:3-sphere|<math>\mathbb{S}^3</math>]] is spherical, at radial distances greater than <math>c_{15}</math> the successive complement-radius polyhedra decrease in size, to the antipodal tetrahedron vertex figure at distance <math>c_{29}</math>. In Euclidean 4-dimensional space <math>\mathbb{R}^4</math>, every vertex is the apex of 29 [[w:Hyperpyramid|polyhedral pyramids]], where the pyramid's lateral edge length is the radial distance and its base polyhedron is the section. Each section lies parallel to a congruent complement-radius section (or coincident with it, in the case of the central section). Each section also lies completely orthogonal to a congruent section.
Only 8 of the 30 chords in the table occur in the 600-cell. The 120-cell's additional chords arise originally from the regular 5-cell 4-simplex, in its interaction with the other regular 4-polytopes that compound to make the 120-cell. Since all those polytopes except the 5-cell occur in the 600-cell, and the 600-cell and the 120-cell have the same symmetry group, the 5-cell's symmetry group is the entirety of what's new in the 120-cell.
The 120-cell is the [[W:Dual polytope|dual polytope]] of the 600-cell. They have the same Petrie polygon, the regular skew triacontagon {30}, but the 120-cell is a construct of 40 Petrie {30}-gons of edge length <math>c_1</math>, two of which intersect in each tetrahedral vertex figure.
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== Conclusions ==
Fontaine and Hurley's discovery is more than a geometric formula for the reciprocal of a regular ''n''-polygon diagonal. It also yields the discrete sequence of isocline chords of the characteristic isoclinic rotation of a ''d''-dimensional polytope. The characteristic rotational chord sequence of the ''d''-polytope can be represented geometrically in two dimensions on a distinct star polygon, but it lies on a geodesic circle through ''d''-dimensional space. Fontaine and Hurley discovered the geodesic topology of polytopes generally. Their procedure will reveal the geodesics of arbitrary non-uniform polytopes, since it can be applied to a polytope of any dimensionality and irregularity, by first fitting the polytope to the smallest regular polygon whose chords include its chords. [If what is meant by this is its Petrie polygon, it is not quite necessary or possible with respect to the planar polygon chords, e.g. the planar Petrie polygon of the 600-cell does not contain the <math>\sqrt{2}</math> chord. But perhaps it would work if the fit is to the smallest regular skew polygon in the ''d''-space.]
The discovery of a chordal construction for discrete isoclinic rotations generally closes the circuit on Kappraff and Adamson's discovery of a rotational connection between dynamical systems, Steinbach's golden fields, and Coxeter's Euclidean geometry of reflections in ''n'' dimensions. Application of the Fontaine and Hurley procedure to the 120-cell demonstrates why the connection exists: because polytope sequences generally, from Steinbach's golden chord sequences in polygons, to sequences of star polygons in isoclinic rotations, to subsumption relations in the sequence of regular 4-polytopes, arise as expressions of the reflections and rotations of distinct Coxeter symmetry groups, when those various groups interact.
== Appendix: Sequence of regular 4-polytopes ==
{{Regular convex 4-polytopes|wiki=W:|columns=7}}
== Notes ==
{{Notelist}}
== Citations ==
{{Reflist}}
== References ==
{{Refbegin}}
* {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=1997 | title=Golden fields: A case for the Heptagon | journal=Mathematics Magazine | volume=70 | issue=Feb 1997 | pages=22–31 | doi=10.1080/0025570X.1997.11996494 | jstor=2691048 | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|1997}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last=Steinbach | first=Peter | year=2000 | title=Sections Beyond Golden| journal=Bridges: Mathematical Connections in Art, Music and Science | issue=2000 | pages=35-44 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2000/bridges2000-35.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Steinbach|2000}}}}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Jablan | first2=Slavik | last3=Adamson | first3=Gary | last4=Sazdanovich | first4=Radmila | year=2004 | title=Golden Fields, Generalized Fibonacci Sequences, and Chaotic Matrices | journal=Forma | volume=19 | pages=367-387 | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2005/bridges2005-369.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff, Jablan, Adamson & Sazdanovich|2004}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Kappraff | first1=Jay | last2=Adamson | first2=Gary | year=2004 | title=Polygons and Chaos | journal=Dynamical Systems and Geometric Theories | url=https://archive.bridgesmathart.org/2001/bridges2001-67.pdf | ref={{SfnRef|Kappraff & Adamson|2004}} }}
* {{Cite journal | last1=Fontaine | first1=Anne | last2=Hurley | first2=Susan | year=2006 | title=Proof by Picture: Products and Reciprocals of Diagonal Length Ratios in the Regular Polygon | journal=Forum Geometricorum | volume=6 | pages=97-101 | url=https://scispace.com/pdf/proof-by-picture-products-and-reciprocals-of-diagonal-length-1aian8mgp9.pdf }}
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== Maharaja Virendra Mohan Dar - Founder of the Dar Raj ==
[[W:Maharaja|Maharaja]] Virendra Vasudev Mohan Dar, otherwise known as the effective founder of the Dar Raj's political and ceremonial standing, was born on Thursday, the 14th of September 1758, in the ancestral quarters of the Akhnoor region of Kashmir. He was the eldest son of Ram Hari Mohan Dar and Smt. Annapurna Devi, the third daughter of the esteemed merchant Pandit Narayan Kaul of Srinagar. His lineage traces back to his grandfather, Hari Krishna Mohan Dar (1687–1768), a saffron merchant and learned Kashmiri Pandit who established the family’s zamindari foundations in the late 17th century.
[[file:Kalighat Patachitra of Maharaja Virendra Mohan Dar.jpg|thumb|Posthumous Kalighat patachitra, commissioned by his great-grandson Mohini Mohan Dhar, 1929, Kalighat, Calcutta.]]
From his earliest years, Virendra exhibited a discerning mind and a keen disposition for learning. He was educated under several specialized tutors: Pandit Madhusudan Kaul (classical literature, Sanskrit, Persian, and land management), Pandit Gopesh Raina (arithmetic, accounts, and revenue management), and Pandit Jagannath Bhat (Durrani administrative customs and local jurisprudence). By the age of ten, he was already distinguished for his recitals of historical and sacred texts, and by seventeen, he was accompanying his father on tours of the family's vast estates in both Kashmir and Bengal, including Dhamrai and Char Talibari
== Accession and the Title of Maharaja ==
Upon the death of his father in 1778, Virendra Mohan Dar assumed full responsibility for the administration of the Dar Raj estates.His accession occurred during a period of significant political flux as the [[wikipedia:Durrani Empire|Durrani Empire]] consolidated power in the Punjab and Kashmir. In 1771, following his judicious resolution of disputes among neighboring zamindars, the court of [[wikipedia:Ahmad Shah Durrani|Ahmad Shah Durrani]] conferred upon him the prestigious hereditary title of "Maharaja".
The formal investiture took place, in the autumn of 1771 in the principal hall of the Akhnoor estate.The Maharaja was presented with robes of state and a ceremonial sword, and he pledged to govern with fairness and diligence. To consolidate his authority, he convened a formal Assembly of Zamindars at Akhnur in 1771 to settle boundary disputes and restate revenue obligations. He was known for a "calculated exercise of power," notably seen in 1782 when he resolved a case of revenue defiance through public inquiry and surveyors rather than armed force
[[File:Ruins of the Dhar Zamindar Bari (Later part of Alokeshi High School) 2015.jpg|left|thumb|Ruins of the Dhar Zamindar Bari ]]
== The Migration to Bengal ==
By the late 18th century, the political stability of the northern territories declined. Provincial governors began prioritizing immediate revenue extraction, and the Akhnoor holdings faced increasing pressure from irregular levies and armed groups associated with local power brokers. In response, the Maharaja implemented a strategic reorientation, gradually shifting the center of his administration to the fertile and more stable plains of [[W:Bengal|Bengal]].
[[File:Dhar Jamindar Bari Image (1869).jpg|thumb|Dhar Jamindar Bari Image (1869)]]
This transition was finalized by a natural calamity in the late 1790s. An exceptionally severe flooding of the [[W:Padma River|Padma River]] resulted in the rapid submergence of the Char Talibari estate, erasing established boundaries and rendering the former seat uninhabitable. Consequently, in 1801, the Maharaja established the Nannar Rajbari (later known as the Dhar Zamindar Bari) in the Dhamrai region. The new residence featured thick brick walls bound with lime-surki mortar and included the Maharaja Virendra Sagar, a large reservoir providing water for both the household and local irrigation.
== Courtly Life and Administration ==
[[File:Territories of Dar Raj in Dhamrai Upazila, Bangladesh.svg|thumb|Territories of Dar Raj in Dhamrai Upazila, [[Bangladesh]]
{{Legend|#aa162a|Territories under the Dar Raj}}{{Legend|#fde4e7|Disputed territories under the Dar Raj}}|left]]Courtly life at Nannar was governed by a disciplined structure, distinguishing between public functions in the outer courts and private life in the inner quarters. Daily routines included administrative sessions where estate officers presented accounts of cultivation and revenue. The Maharaja was known to dress in fine muslin and silk robes, and the meals served at court reflected a blending of both Kashmiri and Bengali culinary influences
Dhamrai was once under the Thana (now Upazila) of Savar. Dhamrai became a Thana itself in 1914 during the British rule; the same year Dhamrai Hardinge High School was established. In 1947 it was put under the district of Dhaka. On December 15, 1984, Dhamrai was upgraded into a full-fledged Upazila.
The administration of the Bengal estates—including villages such as ''Rajrajeshwar'', ''Rowail'', ''Sharifbagh'', and ''Ashulia''—was conducted with diligence. The Maharaja personally inspected irrigation works and canals, ensuring that the welfare of the cultivators was protected.
== Later Years and Succession ==
In his later years, the Maharaja withdrew from daily arduous labor but remained steadfast in his supervision of revenue and justice. In 1820, his health began to decline due to a malady of the stomach. Maharaja Virendra Mohan Dar passed away on the 3rd of February, 1821, at the age of sixty-two.
[[File:Emblem (or seal) of Dar Raj دار راج.png|thumb|Seal of Dar Raj]]
The legacy of the Dar Raj was carried forward by his sons, Raja Mukund Mohan Dar and Bhupendra Mohan Dhar. His lineage continued to produce distinguished figures, including Rai Bahadur Hara Mohan Dhar (a barrister of the Middle Temple), Justice Mohini Mohan Dhar, Judge and former Dewan of Mayurbhanj, Satyendra Mohan Dhar, C.I.E. I.C.S.
== See also ==
Other resources at the [[School:History|School of History]]:
*[[W:Kashmiri Pandits|History of Kashmiri Pandits]]
*[[W:Zamindar|The Zamindari System of Bengal]]
*[[W:Durrani Empire|The Durrani Empire in India]]
[[Category:History of India]]
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[[File:ویرِندرا واسودِو موهان دار.png|thumb|Portrait (c. 1782)]]
== Maharaja Virendra Mohan Dar - Founder of the Dar Raj ==
[[W:Maharaja|Maharaja]] Virendra Vasudev Mohan Dar, otherwise known as the effective founder of the Dar Raj's political and ceremonial standing, was born on Thursday, the 14th of September 1758, in the ancestral quarters of the Akhnoor region of Kashmir. He was the eldest son of Ram Hari Mohan Dar and Smt. Annapurna Devi, the third daughter of the esteemed merchant Pandit Narayan Kaul of Srinagar. His lineage traces back to his grandfather, Hari Krishna Mohan Dar (1687–1768), a saffron merchant and learned Kashmiri Pandit who established the family’s zamindari foundations in the late 17th century.
[[file:Kalighat Patachitra of Maharaja Virendra Mohan Dar.jpg|thumb|Posthumous Kalighat patachitra, commissioned by his great-grandson Mohini Mohan Dhar, 1929, Kalighat, Calcutta.]]
From his earliest years, Virendra exhibited a discerning mind and a keen disposition for learning. He was educated under several specialized tutors: Pandit Madhusudan Kaul (classical literature, Sanskrit, Persian, and land management), Pandit Gopesh Raina (arithmetic, accounts, and revenue management), and Pandit Jagannath Bhat (Durrani administrative customs and local jurisprudence). By the age of ten, he was already distinguished for his recitals of historical and sacred texts, and by seventeen, he was accompanying his father on tours of the family's vast estates in both Kashmir and Bengal, including Dhamrai and Char Talibari
== Accession and the Title of Maharaja ==
Upon the death of his father in 1778, Virendra Mohan Dar assumed full responsibility for the administration of the Dar Raj estates.His accession occurred during a period of significant political flux as the [[wikipedia:Durrani Empire|Durrani Empire]] consolidated power in the Punjab and Kashmir. In 1771, following his judicious resolution of disputes among neighboring zamindars, the court of [[wikipedia:Ahmad Shah Durrani|Ahmad Shah Durrani]] conferred upon him the prestigious hereditary title of "Maharaja".
The formal investiture took place, in the autumn of 1771 in the principal hall of the Akhnoor estate.The Maharaja was presented with robes of state and a ceremonial sword, and he pledged to govern with fairness and diligence. To consolidate his authority, he convened a formal Assembly of Zamindars at Akhnur in 1771 to settle boundary disputes and restate revenue obligations. He was known for a "calculated exercise of power," notably seen in 1782 when he resolved a case of revenue defiance through public inquiry and surveyors rather than armed force
[[File:Ruins of the Dhar Zamindar Bari (Later part of Alokeshi High School) 2015.jpg|left|thumb|Ruins of the Dhar Zamindar Bari ]]
== The Migration to Bengal ==
By the late 18th century, the political stability of the northern territories declined. Provincial governors began prioritizing immediate revenue extraction, and the Akhnoor holdings faced increasing pressure from irregular levies and armed groups associated with local power brokers. In response, the Maharaja implemented a strategic reorientation, gradually shifting the center of his administration to the fertile and more stable plains of [[W:Bengal|Bengal]].
[[File:Dhar Jamindar Bari Image (1869).jpg|thumb|Dhar Jamindar Bari Image (1869)]]
This transition was finalized by a natural calamity in the late 1790s. An exceptionally severe flooding of the [[W:Padma River|Padma River]] resulted in the rapid submergence of the Char Talibari estate, erasing established boundaries and rendering the former seat uninhabitable. Consequently, in 1801, the Maharaja established the Nannar Rajbari (later known as the Dhar Zamindar Bari) in the Dhamrai region. The new residence featured thick brick walls bound with lime-surki mortar and included the Maharaja Virendra Sagar, a large reservoir providing water for both the household and local irrigation.
== Courtly Life and Administration ==
[[File:Territories of Dar Raj in Dhamrai Upazila, Bangladesh.svg|thumb|Territories of Dar Raj in Dhamrai Upazila, [[Bangladesh]]
{{Legend|#aa162a|Territories under the Dar Raj}}{{Legend|#fde4e7|Disputed territories under the Dar Raj}}|left]]Courtly life at Nannar was governed by a disciplined structure, distinguishing between public functions in the outer courts and private life in the inner quarters. Daily routines included administrative sessions where estate officers presented accounts of cultivation and revenue. The Maharaja was known to dress in fine muslin and silk robes, and the meals served at court reflected a blending of both Kashmiri and Bengali culinary influences
Dhamrai was once under the Thana (now Upazila) of Savar. Dhamrai became a Thana itself in 1914 during the British rule; the same year Dhamrai Hardinge High School was established. In 1947 it was put under the district of Dhaka. On December 15, 1984, Dhamrai was upgraded into a full-fledged Upazila.
The administration of the Bengal estates—including villages such as ''Rajrajeshwar'', ''Rowail'', ''Sharifbagh'', and ''Ashulia''—was conducted with diligence. The Maharaja personally inspected irrigation works and canals, ensuring that the welfare of the cultivators was protected.
== Later Years and Succession ==
In his later years, the Maharaja withdrew from daily arduous labor but remained steadfast in his supervision of revenue and justice. In 1820, his health began to decline due to a malady of the stomach. Maharaja Virendra Mohan Dar passed away on the 3rd of February, 1821, at the age of sixty-two.
[[File:Emblem (or seal) of Dar Raj دار راج.png|thumb|Seal of Dar Raj]]
The legacy of the Dar Raj was carried forward by his sons, Raja Mukund Mohan Dar and Bhupendra Mohan Dhar. His lineage continued to produce distinguished figures, including Rai Bahadur Hara Mohan Dhar (a barrister of the Middle Temple), Justice Mohini Mohan Dhar, Judge and former Dewan of Mayurbhanj, Satyendra Mohan Dhar, C.I.E. I.C.S.
== See also ==
Other resources at the [[School:History|School of History]]:
*[[W:Kashmiri Pandits|History of Kashmiri Pandits]]
*[[W:Zamindar|The Zamindari System of Bengal]]
*[[W:Durrani Empire|The Durrani Empire in India]]
[[Category:History of India]]
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[[File:Nukes or nonviolence.png|thumb|Nuclear war or nonviolent noncooperation?]]
:''Humanity is one misunderstanding, one miscalculation away from nuclear annihilation. ... This is madness. We must reverse course.''
: -- [[w:António Guterres|UN Secretary General António Guterres]] (2022)<ref>Jacobsen (2024), BBC (2022).</ref>
:This book is a combination instruction manual on [[w:Media literacy|media literacy]] and an invitation to you to support collaborative / crowd-sourced research on how to improve the world's understanding of media literacy and how to accelerate its understanding and use globally for the betterment of humanity.
Part I of this book on ''[[Media Literacy and You]]'' discusses "The media and political economy". Except in times of terror, massive lawlessness or war, most humans place a high priority on their financial situation, the primary focus of Part I. Part II on "The media and war" focuses on security concerns starting with this chapter on "Deterrence without threat".
== Introduction ==
Every individual and group has a right and an obligation to defend itself. Unfortunately, when most humans<ref>We distinguish here between "humans" and "people" or "persons", because under current US law, corporations are "people" and money is speech, per the US Supreme Court decision in ''[[w:Citizens United v. FEC|Citizens United v. FEC]]'' (2010) and many other judicial rulings and US law such as the [[w:Patriot Act|Patriot Act]] of 2001.</ref> think of defense, they often think of violent responses to provocations.
However, there is a growing body of research documenting
:(a) how most uses of violence are counterproductive, and
:(b) there are usually nonviolent options to violence that would more effectively promote broadly shared peace and prosperity for the long term.
This research is rarely discussed by major media outlets, because it would offend the "people"<ref>We put "people" in quotes in this essay, because that term includes corporations under current US law.</ref> who control most of the money for the media: Nonviolence threatens their ability to get compliance from security forces. As a result, many elites prefer to use force to the detriment of the bottom 99 percent of humanity. As discussed below, a military posture that supports projecting force beyond one’s own borders may be as likely to ''provoke'' as ''prevent'' an attack.<ref>For example, Lebow (2025) cites some of his previous work with others to support the claim that large militaries have been "more provocative than preventative in" their effects. And Lebow (2024) insists that, "Policymakers respond more instinctively than analytically in deciding that some policy is or is not in the national interest." See also Lebow et al. (2023).</ref>
This chapter outlines a 3-part strategy that research suggests would more likely lead to better outcomes for the vast majority of humans:
# Citizen-directed subsidies for local news nonprofits with firewall(s) to prevent political interference in the content.
# Training in nonviolent noncooperation for anyone willing to listen.
# Forbid uses of force beyond one’s own borders and covert interference in foreign countries.
We now discuss each of these briefly.
== 1. Citizen-directed subsidies for local news nonprofits with firewall(s) to prevent political interference in the content. ==
It seems that
:''Primary drivers of every major conflict include differences between the media that the different parties find crecible.''
In a recent interview with [[w:Fordham University|Fordham University]] Professor Emerita of Communications Robin Andersen,<ref name=Andersen><!--Robin Andersen-->{{cite Q|Q132982358}}</ref> she agreed with this claim and added:
:''We only have enemies of our very own making.''
The media are involved in this, because:
:''The major media create the stage upon which politicians read their lines.''<ref>In 1791 James Madison, who represented part of Virginia in the US House of Representatives 1789-1801 and later became the 4th President of the US (1809-1819), said, "Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one." Quoted from the ''[[w:National Gazette|National Gazette]]'' (published 1791-1793) by Schmeller (2009, p. 36) and Sauer (2016, p. 5). Sauer described how the American Revolutionaries, especially the first four US presidents, planted stories in newspapers to build support for how they dealt with the [[w:Barbary corsairs|Barbary pirates]], who were seizing merchant ships, raiding European coastal towns and villages, and selling European captives into slavery. The first two US presidents, [[w:George Washington|Washington]] and [[w:John Adams|Adams]], used that support for protecting US shipping and citizens by paying tribute to government leaders in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya. The next two presidents, [[w:Thomas Jefferson|Jefferson]] and [[w:James Madison|Madison]], convinced Congress to fund a navy and marines to fight the [[w:Barbary Wars|Barbary Wars]]. This included the [[w:Battle of Derna (1805)|Battle of Derna]] (April-May 1805), memorialized in the [[w:Marines' Hymn|Marines' Hymn]], which mentions actions "to the shores of Tripoli". Sauer described how the policies were sold to the public via planted stories in the different partisan newspapers.</ref>
This works because (a) virtually everyone thinks they know more than they do ([[w:Overconfidence effect|overconfidence effect]]), and (b) virtually everyone prefers information and sources consistent with preconceptions ([[w:confirmation bias|confirmation bias]]).
Also, in many, perhaps all, countries, the primary constituency for foreign and military policy is the people with foreign business interests. Many of these people also control substantial portions of the money for the media, which have too often encourage questionable and counterproductive uses of military force.<ref>If we [[w:follow the money|follow the money]], we might find that "watchdogs generally protect the people who feed them", as discussed in the 2025-09-25 interview with British journalist and media reform activist Dan Hind discussing how the British [[Media Reform Coalition challenges anti-democratic media bias in the UK]].</ref>
=== Examples ===
A leader in documenting the role of the media in armed conflict is Robin Andersen,<ref>e.g., Andersen (2006, 2026).</ref> but she is not alone. For example, [[w:University of Denver|University of Denver]] journalism professor Kareem El Damanhoury<ref name=Daman><!--Kareem El Damanhoury-->{{cite Q|Q113752441}}</ref> has compared how [[w:Gaza Strip|Gaza]] has been framed differently by [[w:Al Jazeera Media Network|Al Jazeera]], the [[w:BBC|BBC]]<ref>El Damanhoury et al. (2025).</ref> and [[w:Fox News|Fox]].<ref>El Damanhoury and Saleh (2024).</ref><ref>Some of El Damanhoury's work in this regard [[Differences between media outlets including coverage of Gaza|is reviewed in a 2025-11-20 interview with him]].</ref>
==== World War I ====
Andersen's (2006) ''A Century of Media, A Century of War'' begins with a discussion of "The birth of war propaganda" in "The Great War and the Fight between Good and Evil".<ref>Andersen (2006, ch. 1)</ref>
A more detailed but compatible discussion of the media and [[w:World War I|World War I]] is given by [[w:John Maxwell Hamilton|John Maxwell Hamilton]]. Among other things, he said: {{quote|
The first iron law of propaganda is that only the enemy does it.<ref>Hamilton (2020, p. 642). See also the [[John Maxwell Hamilton on American propaganda|2025-12-11 interview with Hamilton]].</ref>}}
[[File:MB Walker - German bayoneting children - Life - July 25, 1915.png|thumb|left|Figure 1. Stories of German soldiers impaling children on their bayonets were widely reported during the war. However, no credible evidence was found to support these claims when questions were raised after the war.<ref>{{cite web|title=Alleged German atrocities: Bryce report|url=http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/firstworldwar/spotlights/p_alleged_german.htm|publisher=The National Archives|access-date=13 July 2014}}</ref>]]
Andersen (2006, pp. 8-9) said, {{quote|
James Bryce, the former British ambassador to the United States, ... helped prepare a sixty-one page ''Report on the Committee on alleged German Outrages'', which was translated into thirty languages and was said to be based on twelve hundred depositions ... included gruesome and titillating details of how German soldiers publicly raped Belgian girls in the marketplace at Liege and bayonetted a two-year-old child. ... [A]fter the war a Belgian commission of inquiry found no evidence for any major accusation in the report. ...}}
{{quote|
German propagandists, on the other hand, ... "bungled, because they were naïve: they thought the success of the war depended almost solely on military strategy and therefore they tended to neglect propaganda." ... Thus, when German soldiers shot some Allied nurses who had carried weapons, they admitted it openly. The Allies reported the incident as an atrocity and featured it in press propaganda. When French troops shot German nurses under similar circumstances, the Germans failed to exploit it.}}
==== Jonathan Swift 1710 ====
This is not limited to World War I. In 1710, [[w:Jonathan Swift|Jonathan Swift]] reportedly said, "Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after ... like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead."<ref name=Swift>Excerpted from a line in [[Wikiquote:Jonathan Swift]] consulted 2026-04-13.</ref>
==== The Marines' Hymn ====
The [[w:Marines' Hymn|Marine Corps Hymn]] begins, {{quote|
From the Halls of Montezuma
To the shores of Tripoli;
We fight our country's battles
In the air, on land, and sea.}}
The "[[w:Battle of Chapultepec|Halls of Montezuma]]" refer to the [[w:Mexican–American War|Mexican–American War]], which was fought to expand slavery first into [[w:Texas|Texas]] -- and supporters of slavery hoped that would help expand slavery further west. The "[[w:Battle of Derna (1805)|shores of Tripoli]]" were part of the [[w:Barbary Wars|Barbary Wars]], which were fought to reduce the need to pay (a) tribute to the [[w:Barbary Coast|Barbary or Berber]] states of [[w:Morocco|Morocco]], [[w:Algeria|Algeria]], [[w:Tunisia|Tunisia]], and [[w:Libya|Libya]] or (b) ransom to [[w:Barbary corsairs|Barbary pirates]], who were otherwise capturing Christians and selling them into slavery.
Did the bottom 99 percent of the US population of that time benefit? Or did these wars (and any tribute and ransom paid by the US government before the Barbary wars) constitute a hidden transfer of wealth from the poor to the wealthy?
A partial answer to this question is that [[w:tariff|tariff]]s on imported goods covered between 80 and 95 percent of all federal revenue up to 1860, and [[w:excise|excise taxes]] on only a few goods, such as whiskey, rum, tobacco, snuff and refined sugar, made up nearly all the rest.<ref>See the section on "[[w:Excise tax in the United States#Historical background|Historical background]]" in the Wikipedia article on "[[w:Excise tax in the United States|Excise tax in the United States]]", accessed 2026-05-26.</ref> The money raised from taxes on income during the Civil War, visible in Figure 3 above, were apparently negligible as a portion of federal revenue during the Barbary Wars and the Mexican-American War.
==== Gulf of Tonkin Resolution: "Betray the nation or do not get elected." ====
Regarding the [[w:Vietnam War|Vietnam War]], former president [[w:Dwight D. Eisenhower|Eisenhower]] wrote in his autobiography, which appeared in 1963 (he left the presidency 1961-01-20), that he had never communicated {{quote|
with a person knowledgeable in Indochinese affairs [including Vietnam] who did not agree that had elections been held as of the time of the fighting [leading to the defeat of the French in 1954], possibly 80 per cent of the population would have voted for the Communist [[w:Ho Chi Minh|Ho Chi Minh]].<ref>Eisenhower (1963, p. 372).</ref>}}
[[w:Joseph McCarthy|Joseph McCarthy]], who had been elected to the US Senate in 1946 and "experienced a meteoric rise in national profile beginning on February 9, 1950, when he gave a" speech during which he said something like, "The [[w:United States Secretary of State|State Department]] is infested with communists. I have here in my hand a list of 205—a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department." McCarthy's mostly baseless claims went largely unchallenged in the media, including accusing the Democrats of "twenty years of treason" for having been allied with the Soviet Union, which took the bulk of casualties during World War II.
By the end of 1953 with (Republican) Eisenhower as president roughly 11 months, McCarthy was complaining about "''21'' years of treason", complaining that Eisenhower was not sufficiently aggressive in rooting out the communists who McCarthy claimed were in the government.<ref>Fried (1997, p. 179).</ref>
Then the French were defeated by Vietnamese communists 1954-05-07 in the [[w:Battle of Dien Bien Phu|Battle of Dien Bien Phu]]. The [[w:1954 Geneva Conference|1954 Geneva Conference]], which had begun eleven days earlier, 1954-04-26, concluded 1954-07-21 with the "Geneva Accords of 1954".<ref>The [[w:Battle of Dien Bien Phu|Battle of Dien Bien Phu]], 1954-05-07, effectively ended the [[w:First Indochina War|French Indochina War]]. This led to the [[w:1954 Geneva Conference|Geneva accords of 1954]], officially dated 1954-07-20 but actually signed the following morning. Those accords took effect on three different dates, July 27 and August 1 and 11 in three different sectors of Vietnam. See <!--Agreement on the Cessation of Hostilities in Vietnam-->{{cite Q|Q139676410}}</ref> Those accords called for UN-supervised elections for July of 1956, when Eisenhower would presumably be campaigning for reelection. Eisenhower doubtless knew that he might lose his bid for re-election in 1956, if the Communist Ho Chi Minh won elections in July of that year.
:''The consistent suppression of honest portrayal in the major media of that day of the perspective of anyone whom Eisenhower considered "knowledgeable in Indochinese affairs" gave him -- and his successors [[w:John F. Kennedy|Kennedy]], [[w:Lyndon B. Johnson|Johnson]], and [[w:Richard Nixon|Nixon]] -- the choice between betraying the nation or not getting elected.''
In this environment, the [[w:Operation 34A|US initiated a series of clandestine operations against North Vietnam]] including infiltrating CIA-recruited spies and supporting attacks against North Vietnam by South Vietnamese commandos.<ref>Paterson (2008).</ref> This included a raid 1964-07-30 by South Vietnamese commandos on the island of Hòn Mê, roughly 300 km (180 miles) north of the [[w:Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone|Vietnamese Demilitarized Zone]] in the [[w:Gulf of Tonkin|Gulf of Tonkin]], covered by [[w:DESOTO patrol|US naval vessels]] patrolling in that area. Then during a dark and stormy night six days later, US naval vessels opened fire on radar snow, and President Johnson requested and received Congressional approval of the [[w:Gulf of Tonkin Resolution|Gulf of Tonkin Resolution]]; then-[[w:United States Secretary of Defense|US Secretary of Defense]] [[w:Robert McNamara|McNamara]] claimed those attacks were "unprovoked".<ref>Karnow (1983, p. 375). See also the section on [[w:Gulf of Tonkin Resolution#Congress votes|Congress votes]]" in the Wikipedia article on [[w:Gulf of Tonkin Resolution|Gulf of Tonkin Resolution]], accessed 2026-05-14.</ref>
In this media environment, only two officials in the US Congress voted against the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution: [[w:Ernest Gruening|Ernest Gruening]] (D-AK) and [[w:Wayne Morse|Wayne Morse]] (D-OR). Gruening lost in his next primary campaign to [[w:Mike Gravel|Mike Gravel]], and Morse lost in his next general election campaign to [[w:Bob Packwood|Bob Packwood]]. These results support the previous claim that the major media give politicians the choice:
:''Betray the nation, or do not get elected.''
That resolution became the primary authorization for the US war in Vietnam until Congress ended the funding.
==== Was the Vietnam War lost in Washington or by media biases? ====
[[w:John Mueller|John Mueller]], prolific author, Professor Emeritus of international relations at [[w:Ohio State University|Ohio State University]] and Senior Fellow at the [[w:Cato Institute|Cato Institute]], said that the most effective thing the US did to win the [[w:Cold War|Cold War]] was —
:''nothing'':
Between the [[w:Fall of Saigon|Fall of Saigon]] in 1975 and the inauguration of [[w:Ronald Reagan|Ronald Reagan]] as President of the US, the US "went into a sort of containment funk: it effectively adopted a policy of complacency (or perhaps of appeasement) as it watched from the sidelines as the Soviet Union … opportunistically gathered a set of Third World countries into its imperial embrace: Angola in 1976, Mozambique and Ethiopia in 1977, South Yemen and Afghanistan in 1978, Grenada and Nicaragua in 1979."<ref>Mueller (2021, p. 59).</ref> Nearly all became major economic and political drains on the Soviets with Afghanistan being the worst. And their Warsaw Pact allies in Eastern Europe became a severe economic drain and psychic problem.<ref>Mueller and Graves (2023).</ref>
President Reagan, inaugurated 1981-01-20, had a very different vision of the role of the US in foreign relations from his predecessor, [[w:Jimmy Carter|Jimmy Carter]]. In 1983-06-21 Reagan insisted, "We cannot permit the Soviet-Cuban-Nicaraguan axis to take over Central America", because the consequences would include "a tidal wave of refugees ... 'feet people' ... swarming into our country."<ref>Clines (1983).</ref>
Other sources<ref>e.g., Andersen (2006, Part II).</ref> insist the opposite, that the vast majority of deaths in Central America during the Reagan years were poor humans petitioning nonviolently for a redress of grievances, suppressed by terrorist / death squads supported by the Reagan administration largely in violation of laws passed by Congress and signed by President Reagan. On 1986-10-05 [[w:Corporate Air Services HPF821|a Nicaraguan soldier with a surface to air missile shot down a C-123]] cargo aircraft carrying supplies to the Contra roughly 35 miles (56 km) north of Costa Rica. Documents found in the wreckage and a confession by the sole survivor led to the [[w:Iran–Contra affair|Iran-Contra hearings]] the following year, during which Lt. Col. [[w:Oliver North|Oliver North]] insisted, "We didn't lose the war in Vietnam ..., we lost it in this city."<ref>Andersen (2006, p. 137). See also, Wikipedia, "[[w:Stab-in-the-back myth|Stab-in-the-back myth]]", accessed 2026-05-13.</ref>
The previous section on the "Gulf of Tonkin Resolution" provides an alternative narrative of the Vietnam War: If as Eisenhower claimed, "possibly 80 per cent of the [Vietnamese] population would have voted for the Communist [[w:Ho Chi Minh|Ho Chi Minh]]" if elections had been held there, it's hard to imagine how anyone else could have won without aggressive action that actually ''improved'' the lives of Vietnamese peasants in the South. US-led efforts there were officially designed to win "[[w:Hearts and Minds (Vietnam War)|Hearts and Minds]]" but were implemented with such coercion that the result was the opposite. A cynic might say that it is hard to win people's hearts and minds by killing them.
====Richard Barlow and nuclear proliferation====
There is also documentation that the US helped Pakistan get nuclear weapons and destroyed the career of an intelligence analyst, [[w:Richard Barlow (intelligence analyst)|Richard Barlow]], for telling his managers they should not lie to Congress about it. Barlow has insisted that neither Pakistan nor North Korea would have nuclear weapons and Iran would not have a nuclear weapons program today, if the US had followed its own laws. Barlow’s claims, including his punishment by administration officials, have been reported in major media outlets<ref>e.g., Stein (2013). See also Wikipedia, "[[w:Richard Barlow (intelligence analyst)|Richard Barlow (intelligence analyst)]]", accessed 2026-05-06.</ref> but not in a way that would seriously limit the ability — and need — for administration officials to lie to Congress.
If Barlow's claims are accurate, it suggests that US government officials violated US obligations under the [[w:Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons|Non-Proliferation Treaty]] (NPT).<ref>Per the [[w:Treaty Clause|Treaty Clause]] of the US Constitution, a treaty negotiated by the President and approved by the Senate has "the force of federal law."</ref>
==== Nayirah testimony and the 1990-1991 Gulf War ====
A more recent example is the 1990-10-10 testimony by [[w:Nayirah testimony|Nayirah al-Ṣabaḥ to the US Congressional Human Rights Caucus]], two months after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. She claimed to have seen Iraqi soldiers taking premature babies out of incubators in a maternity ward before looting the incubators and leaving the babies to die on the floor after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait; she said she had been a volunteer nurse in the hospital at that time.
The failure of journalists, including with the ''[[w:NBC Nightly News|NBC Nightly News]]'', to adequate check facts behind this and other atrocity stories helped convince the US public to support the US-led invasion of Iraq in 1990-1991. Nayirah's statements were widely publicized and cited numerous times in the United States Senate and by American president George H. W. Bush to contribute to the rationale for pursuing military action against Iraq. It was later revealed that she was the daughter of Kuwaiti ambassador to the US, [[w:Saud Nasser Al-Saud Al-Sabah|Saud Nasser Al-Saud Al-Sabah]], "Reps. [[w:Tom Lantos|Tom Lantos]] and [[w:John Porter (Illinois politician)|John Edward Porter]], who sponsored the congressional hearings, had started a group called the Congressional Human Rights Foundation that had received $50,000 from Citizens for a Free Kuwait, as well as free office space in [[w:Hill & Knowlton|Hill and Knowlton]]'s Washington headquarters",<ref>Rowse (1992).</ref> and the public relations firm Hill and Knowlton had made a video while coaching her rehearsing her perjury and used that to prepare a video press release "that eventually reached a total audience of about thirty-five million", 14 percent of the [[w:Demographic history of the United States|US population of 249 million per the census then in process]], with portions aired on the ''[[w:NBC Nightly News|NBC Nightly News]]'' the night after the testimony.<ref>Andersen (2006, pp. 170-171).</ref>
==== 1998 Embassy bombings and September 11 ====
As another example, there is substantial documentation available today that [[1998 Embassy bombings and September 11|the suicide mass murders of September 11, 2001]], likely would not have occurred if the US had treated the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania as law enforcement issues. Muslim clerics all over the world initially condemned those acts. Al-Qaeda was dead. Their funding had largely dried up. And bin Laden was scheduled to be extradited the following month to Saudi Arabia to be prosecuted for treason, where he would likely have been convicted and executed. Mayer (2008, p. 114) claimed those embassy bombings were motivated as retaliation for US support for torture.<ref>For more on torture, see the the section on [[#Make media responsible for harms|Make media responsible for harms]] below.</ref>
But it seemed questionable at best whether major media executives in the US would have given favorable coverage to such a diplomatic solution. Instead, the US bombed a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan and al-Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan. Then Muslim public opinion turned 180 degrees to conclude, "Bin Laden is right: The US ''is'' an evil empire." The US became bin Laden’s only indispensable ally, according to the CIA agent responsible for tracking bin Laden at that time.<ref>Scheuer (2004, p. xv).</ref> Leading Saudis started supporting al-Qaeda, including some working for the Saudi embassy and consulates in the US. Only one country seems to have been involved in the preparations for the September 11 attacks, and that was Saudi Arabia. But Saudis were friends of the Bush family, and a crisis is a terrible thing to waste.<ref>Romer (2009).</ref>
:''Did the US invade Afghanistan and Iraq on grounds that senior journalists and leading media executives should have known at the time were questionable and likely fraudulent — to the detriment of nearly everyone except the "people" who control most of the money for the media?''
:In particular, was Iraqi president [[w:Saddam Hussein|Saddam Hussein]] really a bigger threat to the US after he invaded Kuwait in 1990 or after the [[w:September 11 attacks|suicide mass murders of September 11, 2001]] than he was during the 1980s, when the US supported him [[w:Iran-Iraq War|killing Iranians]] or [[w:Anfal campaign|his own native Kurds]]?
On 2003-05-29 [[w:BBC|BBC]] journalist [[w:Andrew Gilligan|Andrew Gilligan]] reported that the [[w:Tony Blaire|Blair government]] had "sexed up" [[w:September Dossier|intelligence reports]] issued the previous September to justify supporting the 2003-03-20 [[w:Iraq War|US-led invasion of Iraq]], two months before Gilligan's report. This led to the [[w:Hutton Inquiry|Hutton Inquiry]], which led to the resignations of Gilligan and the BBC's chairman and the firing of the BBC's director-general. However, the British public expressed so many reservations about the Hutton Inquiry that a follow-up investigation was ordered in 2009. This became the "[[w:Iraq Inquiry|Iraq Inquiry]]", whose 2016-07-06 report essentially validated what Gilligan had said just over 13 years earlier. This provides one more example of the 1710 maxim of Jonathan Swift that, "Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after ... like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead."<ref name=Swift/>
====Ukraine war====
Page 1 of the 2023-05-04 edition of ''[[w:Le Monde Diplomatique|Le Monde Diplomatique]]'' carried a headline:
:One year after the invasion of Ukraine: The media, vanguard of the war party,<ref>Halimi and Rimbert (2023) in the French-language original.</ref>
consistent with Andersen (2006).
=== Make media responsible for harms ===
How might the world be different if injured parties could successfully sue major media for harms that result from government policies contradicted by evidence reasonably available to the major media outlets?
For example, how might the world be different if:
* combat veterans or their families could successfully sue major media outlets for biased reporting that stampede the nation into ill advised and counterproductive uses of military force on grounds that leading media personalities should have known at the time were questionable and likely fraudulent?
* Vietnamese or Afghanis or Iraqis or Palestinians or victims in other countries could win similar lawsuits?
* immigrants could sue major media outlets for failing to publish reasonable summaries of the available research that says that immigrants on average are more entrepreneurial<ref>Aghion et al. (2022, pp. 266-270).</ref> and no more likely to engage in criminal activities than native born, benefitting both the sending and receiving countries?<ref>The Wikipedia article on "[[w:Immigration|Immigration]] cites research saying, "that migration can be beneficial both to the receiving and sending countries. The academic literature provides mixed findings for the relationship between immigration and crime worldwide. ... [P]ublic perception often exaggerates the connection between immigration and crime, influenced by sensationalised media coverage and political rhetoric." The Wikipedia article on [[w:Immigration and crime|Immigration and crime]] notes that in some countries immigrants are over-represented in prison populations due to violations of immigration law or anti-immigrant biases in criminal justice. The Wikipedia article on "[[w:Sanctuary city|Sanctuary city]]" says that, "Some studies on the relationship between sanctuary status and crime have found that sanctuary policies either have no effect on crime or that sanctuary cities have lower crime rates and stronger economies than comparable non-sanctuary cities." All references 2026-05-26.</ref>
* humans tortured by the US could sue the major media for suppressing honest discussion of the research that documents that torture is more likely counterproductive? An important report of the efficacy of torture was published in 1631 by [[w:Friedrich Spee|Friedrich Spee]], a German Jesuit priest and professor. A few years earlier, the Duke of Brunswick had invited Spee and another famous Jesuit scholar to supervise a continuation of the torture of a confessed witch. The Jesuits had previously told the Duke, "The Inquisitors are doing their duty. They are arresting only people who have been implicated by the confession of other witches." The Duke then led the Jesuits to a woman being stretched on the rack and asked her, "You are a confessed witch. I suspect these two men of being warlocks. What do you say? Another turn of the rack, executioners." "No, no!" screamed the woman. "You are quite right. I have often seen .. . They can turn themselves into goats, wolves ... Several witches have had children by them. ... The children had heads like toads and legs like spiders."<ref>Pinker (2011, pp. 138-139). Mannix (1964, pp. 134-135). Mackay ( 2009, p. 320).</ref> Crudely similar comments about the counterproductive nature of torture were made by Generals [[w:Stanley McChrystal|Stanley McChrystal]] (2013) and [[w:David Petraeus|David Petraeus]],<ref>DePaulo (2008).</ref> who held command positions in Iraq and Afghanistan. The major media in the US has provided ample coverage of, e.g., comments by Donald Trump supporting torture (McCarthy 2016), while largely suppressing honest discussion of the research on it.
Might the world be safer and more prosperous if major media outlets and their executives and journalists could be successfully sued when their biased reporting have substantive negative consequences? Might [[w:Freedom of information|the public's right to receive diverse information]] be advanced in this way, recognizing that false information disseminated by major media outlets can lead to substantive harms, similar to "[[w:Shouting fire in a crowded theater|shouting ''fire'' in a crowded theater]]", while the same information disseminated by minor outlets would ''not'' produce such harms?
Lawsuits of this nature could be facilitated by "group libel" laws. Activists were working to pass such laws in the 1940s. By 1950 those campaigns had been abandoned, according to Barbas (2023).<ref>See also Calvert et al. (2023, pp. 178ff).</ref>
[[w:Yael Eisenstat|Yaël Eisenstat]] agrees that under [[w:Section 230|Section 230]] of Title 47 of the US Code, "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider." However, Eisenstat insists that [[Online platforms' effects on public health, safety and democracy|"an interactive computer service" ''can'' be held liable when their algorithms have substantive negative consequences]], as in the jury verdicts against Meta in New Mexico<ref>Allyn (2026).</ref> and against Meta and Google in Los Angeles.<ref>McQue (2026).</ref> She said, "those technologies, if they are, in the end, contributing to an illegal activity or to harm, that's what we should be addressing. ... The ultimate goal is not to shut down every social media company. The ultimate goal is to figure out what a safer online experience looks like and what accountability looks like when something unsafe happens."
=== in sum ===
You, dear reader, can help overcome these problems by talking, as suggested in the exercises below and the rest of this book. If you can help others become less angry and more willing to agree to disagree agreeably with others, that should reduce the risk of war and improve the prospects for progress on other major problems facing humanity today.
==2. Training in nonviolent noncooperation for anyone willing to listen ==
A major driver of the current conflict between India and Pakistan is mistreatment of Muslims in India. Simulations of a nuclear war between India and Pakistan suggest that such a war would likely produce a nuclear autumn lasting years during which 40 percent of humanity would starve to death if they did not die of something else sooner. Over 90 percent of those would be in countries not involved in the nuclear exchange.<ref>Xia et al. (2022). See also Wikiversity, "[[Responding to a nuclear attack]]", accessed 2026-05-05.</ref>
The recent "[[w:2025 India–Pakistan conflict|2025 India–Pakistan conflict]]" was a response by India to violence in Indian-administered [[w:Kashmir|Kashmir]] by terrorists allegedly supported by Pakistan. India would have had much more difficulty justifying violent repression of ''nonviolent'' protests, especially if a more diverse media ecology gave such protests more and more sympathetic coverage.
During the [[w:Great Depression|Great Depression]], ethnic Germans in the [[w:Sudetenland|Sudetenland]] region of [[w:Czechoslovakia|Czechoslovakia]] were harder hit by increasing trade barriers than their non-German neighbors. They were therefore more open to populist and extremist movements such as fascism, communism and German irredentism.<ref>Wikipedia, "[[w:Sudetenland|Sudetenland]]", esp. the section on "[[w: Sudetenland#Within the Czechoslovak Republic (1918–1938)|Within the Czechoslovak Republic (1918–1938)]]", accessed 2026-05-05.</ref> If those ethnic Germans had used nonviolent noncooperation to highlight their grievances, and if Czechoslovakia at that time had had a substantially more diverse media system, it seems likely that they could have gotten reasonable redress of grievances. If so, it would have been harder for Hitler to use that as an excuse to invade Czechoslovakia, as he did in 1938.<ref>Wikipedia, "[[w:Occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945)|Occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945)]]", accessed 2026-05-05.</ref>
An ideal settlement of the current Russo-Ukraine war might include training in nonviolent noncooperation made more effective through a more diverse media culture as suggested above. A substantial portion of the Ukrainian population, especially the Ukrainian military, are reported to be vicious anti-Russian Nazis, and the Ukrainian government has outlawed many uses of non-Ukrainian languages, especially Russian.<ref>Horton (2024).</ref> A campaign of nonviolent noncooperation with a vigorous, diverse adversarial press would likely make it harder for Ukraine to continue any persecution of Russian speakers. It would also make it harder for major media in the US and Western Europe to suppress honest discussion of anti-Russian racism in Ukraine. Swanson (2022) said that the [[w:Baltic states|Baltic states]] have implemented such training in preparations for a possible Russian invasion; they might be asked to support such training in Ukraine (and elsewhere).<ref>Swanson (2022).</ref>
Organizations offering training in [[w:Nonviolent resistance|nonviolent noncooperation]] include [[w:Nonviolence International|Nonviolence International]] and the [[w:Highlander Research and Education Center|Highlander Research and Education Center]].
=== Civil resistance deters fracking ===
Duhamel (2013) claimed that well-advertised planning and training in nonviolent noncooperation helped deter oil companies from attempting hydraulic fracturing in [[w:Quebec|Quebec Province]] in [[w:Canada|Canada]]. Deterring a foreign invasion is different, but the same principle should apply: It's clear from many sources that elites consider nonviolence a threat; it's a felony to teach nonviolence to someone whom the US State Department claims supports a "foreign terrorist organization", discussed in the next section.
=== Life in prison for teaching nonviolence ===
Per the US Supreme Court decision in ''[[w:Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project|Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project]]'' (2010), teaching nonviolence to anyone whom the US State Department claims supports a foreign terrorist organization is "[[w:Providing material support for terrorism|providing material support for terrorism]]", which is a felony under the USA [[w:Patriot Act|Patriot Act]] of 2001. Moreover, if the State Department claims that the death of any "person" resulted from the activities of the designated foreign terrorist organization, the penalty can be life in prison, where "person" is defined in the Patriot Act as "any individual or entity capable of holding a legal or beneficial interest in property".<ref>The treatment of [[w:Sami Al-Arian|Sami Al-Arian]] is worth noting in discussing the Patriot Act. Al-Arian is a Kuwaiti-born political activist of Palestinian origin, who earned a doctorate in Electrical Sciences and Systems Engineering at [[w:North Carolina State University|North Carolina State]] in 1985 and taught computer engineering at [[w:University of South Florida|University of South Florida]] (USF) beginning in 1986. He was granted permanent resident status in 1989. In 1993 he earned a Distinguished Teacher Award as a tenured associate professor at USF. He was an [[w:imam|imam]] in a local [[w:mosque|mosque]] and led in other initiatives to promote dialogue and public policy initiatives between the West and Middle East. On September 26, 2001, he appeared on ''[[w:The O'Reilly Factor|The O'Reilly Factor]]'' where he was confronted with a 1988 recording of him shouting "death to Israel". Al-Arian replied that "Death to Israel" meant "death to occupation, ... apartheid, ...oppression," whereupon O'Reilly cut him off and called for the [[w:Central Intelligence Agency|Central Intelligence Agency]] to investigate him. Al-Arian spent most of the next 14 years between that 2001 interview and 2015 in detention, much of it in solitary confinement. This period included a 2005 trial that ended with acquittal on 8 counts and a hung jury on another 9. In 2015 he was deported to Turkey. In 2017, he founded the Center for Islam and Global Affairs at [[w:Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University|Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University]] in Istanbul, Turkey, which he directs. What has been the impact of treatment of Al-Arian on the well-being of the bottom 99 percent of the US and world population?</ref>
How did these provisions get written into the Patriot Act?
That's a question that deserves research, perhaps by asking elected officials in the US Congress and lobbying for their repeal. A speculation consistent with the thesis of this book is that nonviolence terrifies those who control most of they money for the media, because it threatens their ability to get their security forces to follow orders.
==3. Forbid uses of force beyond one’s own borders and covert interference in foreign countries ==
:''[[w:Si vis pacem, para bellum|If you want peace, prepare for war.]]''
: -- ''[[w:De Re Militari|De Re Militari]]'' by [[w:Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus|Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus]] (fourth or fifth century AD)
The record of history is now clear: Those who prepared for war often got war initiated when one party claimed they were being attacked or about to be attacked and believed they would fare better by attacking. Sometimes this occurred when the media environment convinced leaders that their political futures required them to clandestinely provoke foreign entities to do things that could then be denounced as unprovoked to justify military escalation, as mentioned in the previous section.
Samuelson (2025) summarized quantitative analyses of 60 insurgencies since World War II, whose findings included the complete absence of success with counterinsurgencies without large force ratios (at least four, and most often more than ten, times the force of the insurgents) and without "providing a path toward peaceful addressing of grievances". He also noted that, "Brutality toward the civilian population ... tends to inflame the insurgency."<ref>Samuelson (2025) summarized Lawrence (2015).</ref> His analysis gave a pessimistic prognosis for the [[w:Gaza war|Gaza war]] that began 2023-10-07. His conclusions are consistent with the history of the current [[w:Russo-Ukrainian war|Russo-Ukrainian war]], the [[w:Vietnam War|Vietnam War]], the [[w:Graveyard of empires|First, Second, and Third Anglo-Afghan Wars (1839-1919), the Soviet-Afghan War (1979–1989), the US-led War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)]], the 2001-2011 [[w:Iraq War|Iraq War]], and others.
A key point is that invaders often to lose unless they enter with overwhelming force like Germany in the early stages of World War II: The [[w:Occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945)|Czechoslovaks]], [[w:Invasion of Poland|Poles]], [[w:France during World War II|French]], and others were not prepared to fight the Germans, but the [[w:Soviet Union in World War II|Soviets]] were. [[w:Adolf Hitler|Hitler]] doubtless knew that the [[w:Switzerland during World War I and World War II|Swiss]] were prepared to fight, so he attacked other countries first. While fighting the [[w:Russo-Ukrainian war#Full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022)|Russian invasion]] that began 2022-02-24, [[w:Defense industry of Ukraine|Ukraine has developed]] military drones that are highly effective relative to the cost, as witnessed by sales of such to Gulf Arab states,<ref>Sharawi and Shapiro (2026).</ref> illustrating the point that foreign invaders often encounter vastly more resistance than they expect -- and should expect highly effective resistance if they invade a country prepared to fight on their own territory.
The rest of this section discusses weaknesses with standard deterrence theory.
===Deterrence theory and nuclear Armageddon===
Standard [[w:Deterrence theory|deterrence theory]] assumes that one's opponents are rational and do not want [[w:Armageddon|Armageddon]]. The record of history summarized above raises questions about this assumption: In World War I, even the "winners" arguably lost more than they gained -- doubtless excepting a few merchants, who made fortunes from what they sold. Many of the other military decisions discussed above seem to have been driven more by the media than military necessity.
Beyond that, at least some portions of the [[w:Islamic State|Islamic State]] reportedly violates this assumption, because it "not only believes in the literal meaning of the coming Armageddon – it sees itself as its chief protagonist."<ref>Misra (2015).</ref> Some [[w:Christian nationalism|Christian nationalists]] promoted to command positions by [[w:United States Secretary of Defense|US Secretary of Defense]] [[w:Pete Hegseth|Hegseth]] and President Trump also seem to believe that Armageddon might be desirable. On 2026-03-03 the [[w:Military Religious Freedom Foundation|Military Religious Freedom Foundation]] said they had received over 200 complaints from over 50 different US military installations with comments like, "President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth", per an email from one [[w:Non-commissioned officer|NCO]].<ref>Nick Mordowanec (2026).</ref> With Hegseth holding monthly Christian worship services in the Pentagon during business hours,<ref>Black (2025), Mayes-Osterman (2025). See also the section on "[[w:Pete Hegseth#Pentagon Christian worship services and "biblically sanctioned war"|Pentagon Christian worship services and "biblically sanctioned war"]] in the Wikipedia article on [[w:Pete Hegseth|Pete Hegseth]], accessed 2026-05-14.</ref> this suggests that Hegseth could have appointed enough Christian nationalists to key positions to initiate nuclear attacks on Iran or Russia, claiming that President Trump had ordered such whether he had or not.<ref>The [[w:Gold Codes|Gold Codes]] carried in the "[[w:nuclear football|nuclear football]]" required by the [[w:Permissive action link|permissive action link]]s would ''not'' prevent Hegseth and a few others appointed by him from initiating nuclear Armageddon, according to Ellsberg, who had been a nuclear war planner for presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon, before releasing the ''[[w:Pentagon Papers|Pentagon Papers]]''. Ellsberg (2017, p. 69) insisted that the security provided by those Gold Codes were a hoax, because otherwise a single nuclear detonation on Washington, DC, when both the president and vice president were in town "would would definitively block any authorized, coordinated nuclear response to that or any subsequent nuclear attack."</ref>
The biggest risk today may be the risk of [[w:Nuclear holocaust|nuclear Armageddon]], which seems on average to grow over time consistent with experience with "[[w:system accidents|system accidents]]" in other fields: It is naive to assume that any system as complex as military command, control and communications systems never fail. And managers of complex systems subject to rare, catastrophic failures "learn" from experience that they can take ever greater risks, because they have "safely" done so in the past — until there is a catastrophe:<ref>Kahneman and Klein (2009) found that expert intuition, when it exists, is learned from frequent, rapid, high quality feedback. With anything nuclear, mishaps are so rare that managers develop "expert intuition" that they can "safely" ignore safety concerns -- until there is a catastrophe. See also Sagan (1993).</ref>
Veterans for Peace (2022) recommend global reduction and rapid elimination of nuclear weapons "to reduce the real risk of nuclear confrontation through accidental launch or miscalculated escalation".
==== National security tariffs ====
Free trade agreements supported by the [[w:World Trade Organization|World Trade Organization]] allow exemptions for national security and other objectives. [[Responding to a nuclear attack|Even a minor nuclear war between India and Pakistan would have a negative impact on the entirety of humanity]]. It might therefore be sensible for parties to the [[w:Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons|Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons]] (TPNW) to institute gradually increasing tariffs on nuclear weapon states, not so great as to seriously impact the economy of the nation applying such tariffs but aggressive enough to gradually wean their economy from reliance on trade with nuclear-weapon states that refuse to support the TPNW.
See also the chapter below on [[/Media Literacy and You/Responding to a nuclear attack/|Responding to a nuclear attack]].
===Research on the effectiveness of deterrence and implications===
Lebow and others have provided substantial documentation of case studies claiming that leaders are often not rational, and deterrence based on threatening use of military force beyond one’s own borders has been ''as likely to provoke as prevent'' undesired behavior.<ref>Lebow (2025, 2024), Lebow et al. (2023).</ref> The most obvious portions of this threat can be entirely eliminated by policies clearly and effectively forbidding use of force beyond one’s own borders. This can be signaled in at least three ways:
* Eliminate all weapon systems like missiles and aircraft with a range of more than, e.g., a hundred miles or 200 kilometers with the possible exception of surveillance only aircraft that cannot be easily configured to carry [[w:Materiel#Military|ordnance]], e.g., explosives. Similarly eliminate nuclear weapons, which few if any countries would want to use for military defense inside their own borders.
* Supply a national guard and reserves with weapons, training, and rules of engagement that prohibit projecting force beyond one’s own borders. Train them also in development and use of improvised explosive devices and other tactics and devices like low cost military drones.
:Afghanistan is said to be the "[[w:Graveyard of empires|Graveyard of empires]]". They defeated the British three times (1839–1842, 1878–1880, 1919), the Soviet Union (1979–1989), and the US (2001–2021). Each victory came with foreign supplies, but any foreign troops helping Afghanis were primarily under the command of local leaders.
:The [[w:2003 invasion of Iraq|2003 invasion of Iraq]] might have produced [[w:Nation-building|nation-building]] more like the experience of [[w:Nation-building#Germany and Japan after World War II|Germany and Japan after World War II]] if the US had mandated a vigorous adversarial press instead of strict censorship, according to McChesney and Nichols.<ref>McChesney and Nichols (2010, Appendix II. Ike, MacArthur and the Forging of Free and Independent Press, pp. 241-254).</ref> This claim by McChesney and Nichols was not endorsed by [[News from Germany 1900-1945 and implications for today#After the war in Germany vs. Iraq|University of British Columbia History professor Heidi Tworek]], who said the democratization efforts in Germany and Japan after World War II were more complicated than that implied by that brief discussion by McChesney and Nichols.<ref>The 2025-07-03 interview with Tworek is available at "[[News from Germany 1900-1945 and implications for today]]", accessed 2026-05-14.</ref> However, the research by Usher and Kim-Leffingwell (2022) and the related research on news deserts summarized in the preface to this ''[[Media Literacy and You]]'' book largely supports those claims by McChesney and Nichols.
:[[w:Defense industry of Ukraine|Ukraine has become a world leader in military drones]], many of which are dramatically cheaper than alternatives. Most of those have limited range but have been useful for reconnaissance and delivery of ordnance and improving targeting of, e.g., surface to air missiles.
:[[w:Eliot A. Cohen|Eliot Cohen]], who served as a special advisor to [[w:United States Secretary of State|US Secretary of State]] [[w:Condoleezza Rice|Condoleezza Rice]] from 2007 to 2009, wrote, "As the United States discovered in Iraq and Afghanistan, no matter how large, technologically advanced, and proficient an army is, motivated insurgents can still inflict casualties in the tens of thousands."<ref>Cohen (2022), cited from Horton (2024, p. 1026).</ref> Cohen recommended we "Arm the Ukranians now". Horton said that the neoconservatives learned from Iraq War II and Afghanistan that the US "should fight like those who defeated them."<ref>Horton (2024, p. 1026).</ref>
:Leading economist [[w:Jeffrey Sachs|Jeffrey Sachs]] addressed the European Parliament 2025-02-19, claiming that the tragedy that befell Serbia in 1999 and subsequent US uses of force in Iraq and Syria, plus wars in Africa including Syria, Somalia and Libya and the current wars in Ukraine and the Israel-Hamas war, "are to a very significant extent the result of deeply misguided US policies."<ref>Sachs (2025-02).</ref> He said that Europe should craft its own foreign and military policies, independent of the US. ''[[w:Le Monde Diplomatique|Le Monde Diplomatique]]'' noted that Sachs' speech has circulated among social media since ''but has yet to be seriously discussed by major European media.''<ref>Sachs (2025-04; emphasis added).</ref>
* Change the laws of government secrecy so government officials cannot secretly interfere in the internal affairs of foreign countries or otherwise project force outside their own borders. This might be achieved in the US in part by requiring anyone with information about questionable actions by government officials to provide such documentation to one or more congressional oversight bodies while also allowing any current or former government employee or contractor to file suit in any US federal jurisdiction if they feel they have been punished for refusing to support questionable activities. In addition, federal judges should be authorized to subpoena classified government documents that may be relevant to any case in their jurisdiction and declassify them subject to appellate review if they believe the national interest would be better served by declassification.
:If the law is changed without a substantive [[#1. Citizen-directed subsidies for local news nonprofits with firewall(s) to prevent political interference in the content.|citizen-directed subsidies for local news nonprofits with firewall(s) to prevent political interference]], as discussed above, the change could be merely cosmetic and unconvincing to local public officials and potential adversaries.
:Connelly (2023) noted that US government secrecy has in the past encouraged administration officials to do things to provoke actions by foreign entities that can then be denounced as “unprovoked” to stampede the US Congress and the public into supporting counterproductive uses of military force, as discussed above.<ref>See also Connelly et al. (2023).</ref> A more diverse media culture should make it harder for administration officials to lie to the public and to Congress — and harder to punish government employees who tell their managers that they should not lie to Congress, as they reportedly did to [[#Richard Barlow and nuclear proliferation|Richard Barlow]], mentioned above.
:The Barlow case and many others explain why the US should, e.g., give federal judges the authority to subpoena classified documents and declassify them if they believe the public good is better served from declassification than continued secrecy.<ref>See, e.g., the 2025-05-08 interview with Seth Stern and Lauren Harper discussing what the "[[Freedom of the Press Foundation says...]]", Graves (2014), and [[w:Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy|Moynihan Commission on Government Secrecy]], accessed 2026-05-06. Graves (2021) recommends "Congressional Gold Medals for" Barlow and whistleblowers.</ref>
These policies would make it hard for any foreign leader to justify an attack for multiple reasons: First, it would be difficult to convince their supporters that such an attack is necessary. Second, a rational foreign leader might be hesitant to invade a country that is prepared to fight a guerrilla war. Germany reportedly considered invading [[w:Switzerland during World War I and World War II|Switzerland during both World Wars I and II]] and decided against it in part because Switzerland had large, well-trained ready reserves, who were ready to fight. Belgium seemed to be an easier route.<ref>Documented in Wikipedia, "[[w:Switzerland during World War I and World War II|Switzerland during World War I and World War II]]", accessed 2026-05-06. Switzerland also has many mountains, which make it easier to defend, but the capabilities of the Swiss military also influenced the German decision to avoid Switzerland.</ref> Third, even if foreign invaders defeat the guerrillas, they should not assume that their invading forces would continue to follow orders. [[w:Rescue of the Danish Jews|Ninety-nine percent of Danish Jews reportedly survived World War II]] because of Danish noncooperation ''supported by a German diplomat''.<ref>Wikipedia, "[[w:Rescue of the Danish Jews|Rescue of the Danish Jews]]", accessed 2026-05-06.</ref>
With policies like these in place, it would be hard for foreign leaders to convince their supporters of a need to attack, as [[w:2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine|Putin did when invading Ukraine in 2022]],<ref>The Wikipedia article on "[[w:2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine|2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine]]", accessed 2026-05-06, includes a paragraph saying, 'In July 2021, Putin published an essay "On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians", in which he called Ukraine "historically Russian lands" and claimed there is "no historical basis" for the "idea of Ukrainian people as a nation separate from the Russians"'. Putin was accused of promoting Russian imperialism, historical revisionism and disinformation. Writing in 2024, Michael McFaul and Robert Person described this essay as representing not only "cynical propaganda" but also Putin's "deeply held and internalized beliefs". See the Wikipedia article for references supporting those claims.</ref> as [[w:2025 India–Pakistan crisis|India did when attacking Pakistan in 2025]], and as [[w:Invasion of Poland|Hitler did when invading Poland in 1939]], to name only three examples.
=== If we continue to base deterrence on threats ===
There are now calls for Europe to get their own nuclear weapons,<ref>Burgard (2025).</ref> while Iran, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, South Korea and Taiwan have been suggested as other candidates for acquiring nuclear weapons should they feel a sufficient need.<ref>Ruehl (2024).</ref>
It is difficult to imagine how the number of nuclear weapon states could be increased without increasing the risks of a nuclear war, consistent with the discussion of "[[w:system accident|system accident]]s" earlier in this chapter.
Secondarily, intelligence services with information on political corruption including attempts to intimidate and murder journalists should not be allowed to keep that information secret: They should be required to find ways to leak that information to journalists. Such attacks on journalists in their own country should be exposed and prosecuted if the evidence seems likely to obtain a conviction. Intelligence services with information about such attacks in other countries should be required to find ways to leak it to competent journalists without identifying their sources and methods: Doing so would likely reduce political corruption worldwide and with that the risks of war.
== Collateral damage ==
The research cited above supports the claim that,
:''[[w:Collateral damage|Collateral damage]] that our designated enemies commit prove to us that they are subhuman or criminally misled.''
:''Meanwhile, collateral damage that we commit is unfortunate but necessary -- from our perspective. However, it proves to our designated enemies that we are subhuman or criminally misled.''
This observation supports this entire program of deterrence without threat:
* Forbidding use of force beyond one’s own borders and covert interference in foreign countries would automatically reduce collateral damage. It would also avoid uses of force that seem not to contribute to broadly shared peace and prosperity, according to research cited above.
* The effectiveness of nonviolent noncooperation rests in part on its near universal avoidance of collateral damage.
* Citizen-directed subsidies for local news nonprofits with firewall(s) to prevent political interference in the content should make it much harder for major media to convince the public to do things contrary to their best interests, like invading or interfering covertly in foreign countries.
== Call for help ==
Do you, dear reader, know other serious research not cited herein that might improve this analysis? If yes, you can help improve this discussion by adding comments with citations -- or by adding such citation(s) to the "Discuss" page associated with this chapter, suggesting someone else revise the chapter appropriately.
There are plenty of contrary claims in the major media, but the lead author of this chapter is not aware of any that are based on serious research.
In the absence of such research, the current author finds it difficult to imagine any national defense policies that carry a greater risk of nuclear Armageddon than our current policies, as discussed in the next chapter of this book on ''[[Media Literacy and You]]'' on "[[Media Literacy and You/Responding to a nuclear attack|Responding to a nuclear attack]]". That chapter, in sum, claims that the ''worst'' response to a nuclear attack would be nuclear response, because it would escalate a catastrophe killing millions of humans to one killing ''billions'', possibly 80 percent of humanity in a war between the US and Russia that lofts so much smoke from burning cities to the stratosphere where it covers the globe depressing crop yields for years during with 99 percent of the humans in the US, Europe and Russia would starve to death if they did not die of something else sooner. Moreover, the record of "[[w:System accident|system accident]]s" suggests that the chances of such a war before the end of this century is substantially greater than the 40 percent median estimate based on history mentioned in a presentation on "[[Time to nuclear Armageddon]]" delivered to the 2019 Joint Statistical Meetings.
This chapter is being written in the hopes of inspiring action to improve the prospects for broadly shared peace and prosperity for the long term.
== Exercises ==
1. Disconfirmation bias: Brainstorm your biggest concerns about a current or possible future war.
:1.1. Select the one that is of greatest concern to you currently.
::One issue that may not be a major concern for many but might elicit a broad consensus for action would be a campaign to ask elected officials in the US Congress to explain how we benefit from the provisions of the USA Patriot Act of 2001 that authorize [[#life in prison for teaching nonviolence|life in prison for teaching nonviolence]].
:1.2. Who are your designated enemies?
:1.3. Research what your designated enemies are saying about your biggest concern.
:1.4. Under what circumstances would you support what you see your designated enemies advocating or doing?
::If you cannot see such circumstances, expand your research: Look for more sources that support your designated enemies.
2. Interacting: Ask others if you can share what you've learned about that conflict. If they say, "No", don't push it. If they agree, share what you've learned in a friendly supportive manner without saying that anything is "true".
::''Show me someone who knows the truth, and I will show you someone who is dangerous.''
:2.1. The primary goal in this is ''not'' to convince anyone that you are right and they are wrong but to lower the level of anger and increase the level of tolerance for dissenting views.
:2.2. Another goal is to comfortably enjoy civil conversations of this nature, agreeing to disagree agreeably and building trusting relationships that support collaboration on issues of common concern.
:2.3. After becoming adept at building collaborations on issues of common concern, you might consider teaching this important skill and approach to issues.
3. Teaching: Each one teach two, as discussed in the section on "[[Media Literacy and You#Text and self-help book and point of discuss|Text and self-help book and point of discuss]]" in the preface to this book.
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== About me ==
Hello! My name is Zara (''she/her'').
I am a third-year student at the [https://www.canberra.edu.au/ University of Canberra], studying a Bachelor of Science in Psychology with a Breadth Major in Counselling Studies. I am hoping to undertake postgraduate studies in [[wikipedia:Clinical_psychology|clinical psychology]], and I am particularly interested in working with children and adolescents.
At present, I am undertaking the unit [[Motivation and emotion|Motivation and Emotion]]. This unit involves producing a book chapter.
== Book chapter I'm working on ==
I am in the process of writing a book chapter on [[Motivation and emotion/Book/2026/Emotion dysregulation|emotion dysregulation]] for the [[Motivation and emotion/Book|Motivation and emotion book]] project.
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This page serves as a learning resource for documenting the cultural heritage, traditional knowledge, craftsmanship, and history associated with jewellery in Uttarakhand and northern India. It explores jewellery as an expression of art, culture, identity, and craftsmanship through collaborative learning and open educational practices.
== Scope ==
This project encourages the study and documentation of:
* Traditional jewellery of Kumaon and Garhwal
* Jewellery-making techniques and craftsmanship
* Cultural and ceremonial significance of ornaments
* Precious metals and gemstones in regional traditions
* Heritage conservation and documentation
* Contemporary developments in jewellery design and craftsmanship
== Learning Objectives ==
Participants may:
Study the history of jewellery traditions in Uttarakhand.
* Document local craftsmanship and traditional knowledge.
* Explore the cultural significance of ornaments in festivals, weddings, and everyday life.
* Develop openly licensed educational resources related to jewellery heritage.
* Contribute references, photographs, and educational materials to Wikimedia projects where appropriate.
== Learning Activities ==
* Literature review
* Documentation of regional jewellery styles
* Oral history and community knowledge
* Photography and visual documentation
* Comparative studies of traditional and contemporary jewellery
* Heritage mapping
== Related Topics ==
* Material culture
* Traditional crafts
* Intangible cultural heritage
* Goldsmithing
* Gemology
* Design and decorative arts
* Open educational resources
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==Jewellery of Uttarakhand==
A page you recreated has been renamed to [[Jewellery of Uttarakhand]]. -- [[User:Jtneill|Jtneill]] - <small>[[User talk:Jtneill|Talk]] - [[Special:Contributions/Jtneill|c]]</small> 22:03, 2 August 2026 (UTC)
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==Jewellery of Uttarakhand==
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[[w:Abiogenesis|Abiogenesis]]
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[[w:The God Delusion]] by [[w:Richard Dawkins]]
[[w:The Story of Everything]] film.
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[[User:Jaredscribe/Weekly Learning Schedule for Natural Philosophy]]
[[w:Abiogenesis|Abiogenesis]]
Big Bang
[[w:The God Delusion]] by [[w:Richard Dawkins]]
[[w:The Story of Everything]] film.
Hubble detects Redshift Nebulae galaxies moving away.
[[w:Steady-state_model|Steady state model]] of the Universe - universe infintely old.
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[[w:Black_hole|Black hole physics]] - The [[w:Singularity_theory|singularity]] infinite density and infinitely tight space-time curvature.
[[Gravitational singularity]], in general relativity, a point in which gravity is so intense that spacetime itself becomes ill-defined
[[Initial singularity]], a hypothesized singularity of infinite density before quantum fluctuations caused the Big Bang and subsequent inflation that created the Universe
[[Penrose–Hawking singularity theorems]], in general relativity theory, theorems about how gravitation produces singularities such as in black holes
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