It can - up to 6 pairs of parallel sides.
An octohedron, or diamond
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There are 96 possible outcomes. A dodecahedron has 12 sides, so it has 12 possible outcomes. An octohedron has 8 sides. So for each of the 12 outcomes on the dodecahedron, the octahedron has 8 possible outcomes, hence you multiply 12 x 8 = 96.
Octohedron
Octohedron, or diamond
"Octo" is Latin for the number eight. An octopus is s named because it has eight tentacles. An octohedron is a shape with eight sides. An octagon is a shae with eight equal sides.
Well, that depends on what you mean by shape and side. In a plane, any 2 dimensional figure that has 8 sides is an octogon. Each side is a straight line segment. It doesn't matter if the sides are all the same length or not. If you are working in 3 dimensional space, then the answer is an octohedron. In this case, the side is a plane figure (a triangle). The regular octohedron is one of the 5 platonic solids, once thought by the ancients to comprise the fundamental building blocks of matter.
Octohedron