Spherical polytope

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A soccer ball or football is a well-known real-life representation of a spherical polyhedron.

A spherical polytope is a polytope realized on a hypersphere. Most commonly, the term refers to a spherical tiling where an (n + 1)-polytope is realized on the n-sphere, all edges are great arcgreat arcs of the hypersphere, and the polytope's facets completely cover the hypersphere.