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A space-filling polyhedron is one whose replications can be packed to fill three-space completely. The space-filling tetrahedra, pentahedra, hexahedra and heptahedra have been previously investigated. The search is here extended to the convex space-filling octahedra. The number of types is found to be at least 49.
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Goldberg, M. On the space-filling octahedra. Geom Dedicata 10, 323–335 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01447431
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