Heronian tetrahedron

Heronian tetrahedron

A Heronian tetrahedron is a tetrahedron whose side lengths, face areas and volume are all rational numbers. The faces must therefore all be Heronian triangles.

A regular tetrahedron with rational sides is not a Heronian tetrahedron because its face areas and volume are not rational numbers. A Heronian tetrahedron is sometimes called a perfect tetrahedron.

117 is the smallest possible length of the longest side of a perfect tetrahedron. Its other sidelengths are 51, 52, 53, 80 and 84.

ee also

* Euler brick

External links

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* [http://www.geocities.com/teufel_pi/papers/perfectpyramids.pdf Perfect Pyramids]


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