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Well you have an octagon on each end of the prism, and octagons have 8 sides, so 8 x 2 is 16, and then you have edges connecting the corners of the octagons at the end. There are 8 corners in an octagon, so that's 8 more edges. 16 + 8 = 24 total edges.

An n-gonal prism has 3n edges.

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