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==Positive defects on non-convex figures== It is tempting to think that every non-convex polyhedron must have some vertices whose defect is negative, but this need not be the case if the Euler characteristic is positive (a topological sphere). {| class=wikitable |+Polyhedra with positive defects |[[Image:Polydera with positive defects convex.svg|180px]] |[[Image:Polydera with positive defects concave.svg|180px]] |} A counterexample is provided by a [[cube]] where one face is replaced by a [[square pyramid]]: this [[elongated square pyramid]] is convex and the defects at each vertex are each positive. Now consider the same cube where the square pyramid goes into the cube: this is concave, but the defects remain the same and so are all positive. Two counterexamples which are self-intersecting polyhedra are the [[small stellated dodecahedron]] and the [[great stellated dodecahedron]], with twelve and twenty convex points respectively, all with positive defects.
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