Elongated triangular gyrobicupola
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In geometry
Geometry
Geometry arose as the field of knowledge dealing with spatial relationships. Geometry was one of the two fields of pre-modern mathematics, the other being the study of numbers ....

, the elongated triangular gyrobicupola is one of the Johnson solid
Johnson solid
In geometry, a Johnson solid is a strictly convex polyhedron, each face of which is a regular polygon, but which is not uniform, i.e., not a Platonic solid, Archimedean solid, prism or antiprism. There is no requirement that each face must be the same polygon, or that the same polygons join around...

s (J36). As the name suggests, it can be constructed by elongating a "triangular gyrobicupola," or cuboctahedron
Cuboctahedron
In geometry, a cuboctahedron is a polyhedron with eight triangular faces and six square faces. A cuboctahedron has 12 identical vertices, with two triangles and two squares meeting at each, and 24 identical edges, each separating a triangle from a square. As such it is a quasiregular polyhedron,...

, by inserting a hexagonal prism
Hexagonal prism
In geometry, the hexagonal prism is a prism with hexagonal base. The shape has 8 faces, 18 edges, and 12 vertices.Since it has eight faces, it is an octahedron. However, the term octahedron is primarily used to refer to the regular octahedron, which has eight triangular faces...

 between its two halves, which are congruent triangular cupola
Triangular cupola
In geometry, the triangular cupola is one of the Johnson solids . It can be seen as half a cuboctahedron.The 92 Johnson solids were named and described by Norman Johnson in 1966.-Formulae:...

e (J3). Rotating one of the cupolae through 60 degrees before the elongation yields the triangular orthobicupola
Triangular orthobicupola
In geometry, the triangular orthobicupola is one of the Johnson solids . As the name suggests, it can be constructed by attaching two triangular cupolas along their bases...

 (J35).

The 92 Johnson solids were named and described by Norman Johnson in 1966.

Formulae

The following formula
Formula
In mathematics, a formula is an entity constructed using the symbols and formation rules of a given logical language....

e for volume
Volume
Volume is the quantity of three-dimensional space enclosed by some closed boundary, for example, the space that a substance or shape occupies or contains....

 and surface area
Surface area
Surface area is the measure of how much exposed area a solid object has, expressed in square units. Mathematical description of the surface area is considerably more involved than the definition of arc length of a curve. For polyhedra the surface area is the sum of the areas of its faces...

 can be used if all faces are regular
Regular polygon
A regular polygon is a polygon that is equiangular and equilateral . Regular polygons may be convex or star.-General properties:...

, with edge length a:



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