Often people just say "octant" even though this refers to an eighth-plane rather than just the part of the unit sphere in it. Charles Greathouse Analyst/Programmer Case Western Reserve University On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 3:09 PM, James Buddenhagen <jbuddenh@gmail.com> wrote:
A friend who is a sculptor asked me if there is a name for the shape of the 8 pieces a solid sphere would fall into if you cut it with 3 mutually perpendicular planes through the center. I couldn't think of any but thought I would ask here. And more generally, is there a name for a 'spherical wedge' bounded by a spherical triangle and the planar faces from the center containing the triangle's edges?
Thanks for any help on this.
Jim
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