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| | Abstract |
 | | Figure 11, we see that Maschke associated the dihedral groups with the rotations of a dihedron (a solid determined by a regular n-gon on the equator of a sphere, with an additional vertex at each pole). |
 | | Figure 2, for the dihedral group determined by the triangle in this case, is easily explained in terms of a cyclic element of order n and any reflection. |
 | | The truncated cube (Figure 6) is generated by “a rotation of period 3 about the diameter passing through the middle points of the two faces a, and a rotation of period 2 about the diameter bisecting the edges 4-5 and 3-6.” These become permutations a = (1,5,4)(2,6,3) and b = (1,2)(3,6)(4,5). |
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