Editing Polyhedron (section)

===Ancient China===
[[File:14-sided Chinese dice from warring states period.jpg|thumb|upright|Fourteen sided die from the [[Warring States period]]]]
Both cubical dice and 14-sided dice in the shape of a [[truncated octahedron]] in China have been dated back as early as the [[Warring States period]].<ref>{{citation
 | last1 = Bréard | first1 = Andrea | author1-link = Andrea Bréard
 | last2 = Cook | first2 = Constance A.
 | date = December 2019
 | doi = 10.1007/s00407-019-00245-9
 | issue = 4
 | journal = Archive for History of Exact Sciences
 | pages = 313–343
 | title = Cracking bones and numbers: solving the enigma of numerical sequences on ancient Chinese artifacts
 | volume = 74| s2cid = 253898304 }}</ref>

By 236 AD, [[Liu Hui]] was describing the dissection of the cube into its characteristic tetrahedron ([[orthoscheme]]) and related solids, using assemblages of these solids as the basis for calculating volumes of earth to be moved during engineering excavations.<ref>{{citation
 | last = van der Waerden | first = B. L.
 | contribution = Chapter 7: Liu Hui and Aryabhata
 | doi = 10.1007/978-3-642-61779-9_7
 | pages = 192–217
 | publisher = Springer
 | title = Geometry and Algebra in Ancient Civilizations
 | year = 1983}}</ref>