Triangular Prism

Author

Eric W. Weisstein
March 2, 2009

This notebook downloaded from http://mathworld.wolfram.com/notebooks/Polyhedra/TriangularPrism.nb.

For more information, see Eric's MathWorld entry http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TriangularPrism.html.

©2009 Wolfram Research, Inc. except for portions noted otherwise

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