The flat faces and straight edges of a cube signify that it belongs to a large family of geometric shapes known as polyhedra. Several years ago, mathematician John H. Conway of Princeton University wondered whether a polyhedron could have a hole passing through every face and remain a polyhedron. He coined the term holyhedron to describe such a form, should it exist.
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