Hexacosichoron

The hexacosichoron, or ex, also commonly called the 600-cell, is one of the 6 convex regular polychora. It has 600 regular tetrahedra as cells, joining 5 to an edge and 20 to a vertex in an icosahedral arrangement. Together with its dual, it is the first in an infinite family of dodecahedral and icosahedral swirlchora and also the fifth in an infinite family of cubic swirlchora.

Vertex coordinates
The vertices of a regular hexacosichoron of edge length 1, centered at the origin, are given by all permutations of:
 * (±(1+$\sqrt{5}$)/2, 0, 0, 0),
 * (±(1+$\sqrt{5}$)/4, ±(1+$\sqrt{5}$)/4, ±(1+$\sqrt{5}$)/4, ±(1+$\sqrt{5}$)/4),

and all even permutations of:
 * (±(3+$\sqrt{5}$)/4, ±(1+$\sqrt{5}$)/4, ±1/2, 0).

The first two sets of vertices form an icositetrachoron that can be inscribed into the hexacosichoron. If the vertices of this inscribed icositetrachoron are removed, the result is the snub disicositetrachoron.

Related polychora
The hexacosichoron is the colonel of a five-member regiment that includes three other regular polychora, namely the faceted hexacosichoron, the great hecatonicosachoron, and the grand hecatonicosachoron. Of these, the faceted hexacosichoron also shares the same faces, so the hexacosichoron is the captain of a two-member company.

The hexacosichoron has many diminishings, formed by cutting off one or more icosahedral pyramids.

The vertices of an inscribed icositetrachoron can be removed, creating the snub icositetrachoron. If the vertices of a second inscribed icositetrachoron are removed, the result is the bi-icositetradiminished hexacosichoron.

Two orthogonal circles of 10 vertices can be removed from the hexacosichoron to form the grand antiprism.