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Swastika


Swastika

An irregular icosagon, also called the gammadion or fylfot, which symbolized good luck in ancient Arabic and Indian cultures. The mirror image of the above, sometimes called the Sauwastika, is common in Buddhism. In more recent times, it was adopted as the symbol of the Nazi Party in Hitler's Germany and has thence come to symbolize anti-Semitism.


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References

Gardner, M. "Form a Swastika." §20.6 in The Sixth Book of Mathematical Games from Scientific American. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, pp. 198 and 203-204, 1984.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Swastika." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Swastika.html

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