Great inverted snub icosidodecahedron
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, the great inverted snub icosidodecahedron is a uniform star polyhedron, indexed as U69. It is given a Schläfli symbol s{5/3,3}.

Cartesian coordinates

Cartesian coordinates for the vertices of a great inverted snub icosidodecahedron are all the even permutations of
(±2α, ±2, ±2β),
(±(α−βτ−1/τ), ±(α/τ+β−τ), ±(−ατ−β/τ−1)),
(±(ατ−β/τ+1), ±(−α−βτ+1/τ), ±(−α/τ+β+τ)),
(±(ατ−β/τ−1), ±(α+βτ+1/τ), ±(−α/τ+β−τ)) and
(±(α−βτ+1/τ), ±(−α/τ−β−τ), ±(−ατ−β/τ+1)),

with an even number of plus signs, where
α = ξ−1/ξ

and
β = −ξ/τ+1/τ2−1/(ξτ),

where τ = (1+√5)/2 is the golden mean
Golden mean
Golden mean may refer to:*Doctrine of the Golden Mean , a chapter in Li Ji, one of the Four Books of Confucianism*Golden mean , the felicitous middle between the extremes of excess and deficiency...

 and
ξ is the greater positive real solution to ξ3−2ξ=−1/τ, or approximately 1.2224727.
Taking the odd permutations of the above coordinates with an odd number of plus signs gives another form, the enantiomorph
Chirality (mathematics)
In geometry, a figure is chiral if it is not identical to its mirror image, or, more precisely, if it cannot be mapped to its mirror image by rotations and translations alone. For example, a right shoe is different from a left shoe, and clockwise is different from counterclockwise.A chiral object...

 of the other one.

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