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The small rhombicuboctahedron
has 26 faces is the
Archimedean solid
Although this solid is sometimes also called the truncated icosidodecahedron,
this name is inappropriate since true
truncation would
yield rectangular instead of square faces. It is
uniform polyhedron A small rhombicuboctahedron appears in the middle right as one of the polyhedral "stars" in M. C. Escher's 1948 wood engraving "Stars" (Forty 2003, Plate 43). A version of the small rhombicuboctahedron in which the top and bottom halves are rotated with respect to each other is known as the elongated square gyrobicupola |
Reference http://www.mathworld.wolfram.com