regular polygon is a polygon that is direct equiangular (all angles are equal in measure) and equilateral (all sides have the same length). Regular polygons...
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solid polygons, a polygon may refer only to a simple polygon or to a solid polygon. A polygonal chain may cross over itself, creating star polygons and...
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In geometry, a star polygon is a type of non-convex polygon. Regular star polygons have been studied in depth; while star polygons in general appear not...
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Euclidean plane tilings by convex regular polygons have been widely used since antiquity. The first systematic mathematical treatment was that of Kepler...
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Degeneracy (mathematics) (redirect from Degenerate regular polygon)
or at least one angle is 180°. Thus a degenerate convex polygon of n sides looks like a polygon with fewer sides. In the case of triangles, this definition...
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a regular polygon. The polytopes of rank 2 (2-polytopes) are called polygons. Regular polygons are equilateral and cyclic. A p-gonal regular polygon is...
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In geometry, an affine-regular polygon or affinely regular polygon is a polygon that is related to a regular polygon by an affine transformation. Affine...
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it is a regular polygon. Isogonal polygons are equiangular polygons which alternate two edge lengths. For clarity, a planar equiangular polygon can be...
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the facets. The Petrie polygon of a regular polygon is the regular polygon itself; that of a regular polyhedron is a skew polygon such that every two consecutive...
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even-sided. Regular skew polygons in 3 dimensions (and regular skew apeirogons in two dimensions) are always zig-zag. A regular skew polygon is a faithful...
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Pentagon (redirect from Regular pentagon)
regular convex polygon, the regular convex pentagon has an inscribed circle. The apothem, which is the radius r of the inscribed circle, of a regular...
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Apeirogon (redirect from Infinite polygon)
apeiron 'infinite, boundless' and γωνία gonia 'angle') or infinite polygon is a polygon with an infinite number of sides. Apeirogons are the rank 2 case...
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does then it is a regular polygon. If the number of sides is at least four, an equilateral polygon does not need to be a convex polygon: it could be concave...
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Megagon (redirect from Million-sided polygon)
circle-like polygon with one million sides (mega-, from the Greek μέγας, meaning "great", being a unit prefix denoting a factor of one million). A regular megagon...
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mathematics, a constructible polygon is a regular polygon that can be constructed with compass and straightedge. For example, a regular pentagon is constructible...
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Reuleaux polygon. As a special case, this construction is possible for every regular polygon with an odd number of sides. Every Reuleaux polygon must have...
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Equilateral triangle (redirect from Regular Triangle)
of these properties, the equilateral triangle is a regular polygon, occasionally known as the regular triangle. It is the special case of an isosceles triangle...
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Complex polytope (redirect from Van Oss polygon)
points lie at the vertices of a regular polygon centered on the origin. Three real projections of regular complex polygon 4{4}2 are illustrated above, with...
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Hexagon (redirect from Regular hexagon)
angle") is a six-sided polygon. The total of the internal angles of any simple (non-self-intersecting) hexagon is 720°. A regular hexagon is defined as...
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Square (redirect from Regular quadrilateral)
hyperbolic geometry both lack polygons with four equal sides and right angles, they have square-like regular polygons with four sides and other angles...
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one is that the faces are congruent regular polygons which are assembled in the same way around each vertex. A regular polyhedron is identified by its Schläfli...
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Nonagon (redirect from Regular Nonagon)
geometry, a nonagon (/ˈnɒnəɡɒn/) or enneagon (/ˈɛniəɡɒn/) is a nine-sided polygon or 9-gon. The name nonagon is a prefix hybrid formation, from Latin (nonus...
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Perimeter (redirect from Perimeter of the polygon)
perimeter of an equilateral polygon, one must multiply the common length of the sides by the number of sides. A regular polygon may be characterized by the...
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Viviani's theorem (section Regular polygon)
hexagon, which does not necessarily have opposite sides parallel. If a polygon is regular (both equiangular and equilateral), the sum of the distances to the...
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Polygram (geometry) (redirect from Regular compound polygon)
disconnected sets of edges, called a compound polygon. For example, a regular pentagram, {5/2}, has 5 sides, and the regular hexagram, {6/2} or 2{3}, has 6 sides...
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Digon (redirect from Regular digon)
a representation of a graph with two vertices, see "Generalized polygon". A regular digon has both angles equal and both sides equal and is represented...
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and the regular polygons in two dimensions. There are six convex and ten star regular 4-polytopes, giving a total of sixteen. The convex regular 4-polytopes...
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Concyclic points (redirect from Cyclic polygon)
Every regular polygon is a cyclic polygon. For a cyclic polygon with an odd number of sides, all angles are equal if and only if the polygon is regular. A...
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Dodecagon (redirect from Regular dodecagon)
In geometry, a dodecagon, or 12-gon, is any twelve-sided polygon. A regular dodecagon is a figure with sides of the same length and internal angles of...
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Pyramid (geometry) (redirect from Polygonal pyramid)
solid with a polygonal base. Many types of pyramids can be found by determining the shape of bases, either by based on a regular polygon (regular pyramids)...
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