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Individual polygons are named (and sometimes classified) according to the number of sides, combining a Greek-derived numerical prefix with the suffix -gon, e.g. pentagon, dodecagon. The triangle, quadrilateral and nonagon are exceptions, although the regular forms trigon, tetragon, and enneagon are sometimes encountered as well.
The regular icositetragon has Dih 24 symmetry, order 48. There are 7 subgroup dihedral symmetries: (Dih 12, Dih 6, Dih 3), and (Dih 8, Dih 4, Dih 2 Dih 1), and 8 cyclic group symmetries: (Z 24, Z 12, Z 6, Z 3), and (Z 8, Z 4, Z 2, Z 1). These 16 symmetries can be seen in 22 distinct symmetries on the icositetragon. John Conway labels these by a ...
In geometry, a heptagon or septagon is a seven-sided polygon or 7-gon.. The heptagon is sometimes referred to as the septagon, using "sept-" (an elision of septua-, a Latin-derived numerical prefix, rather than hepta-, a Greek-derived numerical prefix; both are cognate) together with the Greek suffix "-agon" meaning angle.
There are three regular star polygons, {16/3}, {16/5}, {16/7}, using the same vertices, but connecting every third, fifth or seventh points. There are also three compounds: {16/2} is reduced to 2{8} as two octagons , {16/4} is reduced to 4{4} as four squares and {16/6} reduces to 2{8/3} as two octagrams , and finally {16/8} is reduced to 8{2 ...
The tangential triangle of a reference triangle (other than a right triangle) is the triangle whose sides are on the tangent lines to the reference triangle's circumcircle at its vertices. [ 64 ] As mentioned above, every triangle has a unique circumcircle, a circle passing through all three vertices, whose center is the intersection of the ...
Given a point A 0 in a Euclidean space and a translation S, define the point A i to be the point obtained from i applications of the translation S to A 0, so A i = S i (A 0).The set of vertices A i with i any integer, together with edges connecting adjacent vertices, is a sequence of equal-length segments of a line, and is called the regular apeirogon as defined by H. S. M. Coxeter.
Any straight-sided digon is regular even though it is degenerate, because its two edges are the same length and its two angles are equal (both being zero degrees). As such, the regular digon is a constructible polygon. [3] Some definitions of a polygon do not consider the digon to be a proper polygon because of its degeneracy in the Euclidean ...
Close approximations to the regular hendecagon can be constructed. For instance, the ancient Greek mathematicians approximated the side length of a hendecagon inscribed in a unit circle as being 14/25 units long. [7] The hendecagon can be constructed exactly via neusis construction [8] and also via two-fold origami. [9]