Template:Did you know nominations/Centered octahedral number

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 22:11, 18 September 2014 (UTC)

Centered octahedral number

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... that René Just Haüy modeled octahedral crystals mathematically as polycubes made of a centered octahedral number of cubes (pictured)?

Reviewed: Peter Russell (fashion designer)

5x expanded by David Eppstein (talk). Self nominated at 04:18, 8 September 2014 (UTC).

New enough (5x expanded on 7 September), long enough (2,543 characters). Fully referenced. Image licensed okay. Hook fine, verified against online source. QPQ done. Good to go! Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:31, 8 September 2014 (UTC)