Rupert Property of Archimedean Solids

@article{Chai2018RupertPO,
  title={Rupert Property of Archimedean Solids},
  author={Ying Chai and Liping Yuan and Tudor Zamfirescu},
  journal={The American Mathematical Monthly},
  year={2018},
  volume={125},
  pages={497 - 504},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:125508192}
}
It is shown that among the 13 Archimedean solids, 8 have this property, namely, the cuboctahedron, the truncated octahedrons, thetruncated cube, the rhombicuboctahedral, the icosidodecahedral, and the truncation dodecahedron.
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