Great icosahedron composed by twenty intersecting triangular faces with five triangles meeting at each vertex in a pentagrammic sequence.

Polyhedron with twenty intersecting triangular faces with five triangles meeting at each vertex in a pentagrammic sequence. It has thirty edges and twelve vertices. It is a Kepler-Poinsot polyhedron, one of the four non-convex regular polyhedra.

The surface area of a great icosahedron with edge length aa is given by the formula:

Surface area=3a23(5+45)\text{Surface area}=3a^2 \sqrt{3} \left( 5 + 4\sqrt{5} \right)

The volume of a great icosahedron with edge length aa is given by the formula:

Volume=a34(25+95)\text{Volume}=\frac{a^3}{4} \left(25+9\sqrt{5}\right)

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