Usually a regular dihedron is implied (two regular polygons) and this gives it a Schläfli symbol as {n,2}. The dual of a n-gonal dihedron is the n-gonal hosohedron, where n digon faces share two vertices. ==As a polyhedron== A dihedron can be considered a degenerate prism consisting of two (planar) n-sided polygons connected `back-to-back`, so ..... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihedron