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Icosian Game

The problem of finding a Hamiltonian Circuit along the edges of an Icosahedron, i.e., a path such that every vertex is visited a single time, no edge is visited twice, and the ending point is the same as the starting point.

See also Hamiltonian Circuit, Icosahedron


References

Herschel, A. S. ``Sir Wm. Hamilton's Icosian Game.'' Quart. J. Pure Applied Math. 5, 305, 1862.




© 1996-9 Eric W. Weisstein
1999-05-26