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13 or 14, Halloween surprise

History and Overview 2025-11-20 v1

Abstract

We discuss here the history of the rhombocuboctahedron and pseudorombocuboctahedron and describe the structure of their paper models. It turns out that one of them serves as an excellent basis for creating a Jack-o'-lantern. The note is written primarily for school students.

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@article{arxiv.2511.14785,
  title  = {13 or 14, Halloween surprise},
  author = {Aleksei Panov and Aleksei Khovanskii},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.14785},
  year   = {2025}
}

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3 pages, 8 figures (in Russian)