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I AGREE with Prof. Coxeter's conclusion that no more than six mirrors need be used to produce the solid tessellations. It is now clear that two of his tetragonal bisphenoids, interpenetrating, bear the same relation to my octahedron which two interpenetrating regular tetrahedra bear to the regular octahedron.
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MELMORE, S. The Generalized Kaleidoscope. Nature 146, 232 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/146232b0
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