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by Stuart@KaplanGMAT » Sat Nov 06, 2010 11:26 am
nickhar130 wrote:here is a fun word "parellelepipped"

What is that? Is that like a 3 dimensional triangle or cubed of some sort:?
You don't need to know about these for the GMAT, but they're "tilty" cubes or boxes.

Think of a cube created with rhombii as the sides instead of squares.
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