This
shape has 12 identical isosceles triangle shaped faces. If it had 8, they
would be equilateral triangles, and therefore an octahedron. If it had
an infinate amount of faces, it would be a sphericon.
It can have as many isoscles triangular faces as it wants, as long as it
is divisable by 4.
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