| |
| | History Channel Search Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | A parallelopiped is a prism that has parallelograms as the bases; a rectangular parallelopiped, or box, is one in which all six faces (four lateral faces and two bases) are rectangles; in a |
 | | The volume, V, of a prism is given by the area, B, of a base multiplied by the altitude, h; in symbols, V = Bh. |
 | | If a, b, c are the lengths of three edges of a rectangular parallelopiped that meet at one vertex, the volume is given by V = abc. |
| www.historychannel.com /encyclopedia/article.jsp?link=FWNE.fw..pr135700.a (289 words) |
|