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A principal diagonal of a hexagon is a diagonal which divides the hexagon into quadrilaterals. In any convex equilateral hexagon (one with all sides equal) with common side a, there exists [11]: p.184, #286.3 a principal diagonal d 1 such that and a principal diagonal d 2 such that
Coxeter states that every zonogon (a 2m-gon whose opposite sides are parallel and of equal length) can be dissected into m(m-1)/2 parallelograms. [ 4 ] In particular this is true for regular polygons with evenly many sides, in which case the parallelograms are all rhombi.
The diagonals of a cube with side length 1. AC' (shown in blue) is a space diagonal with length , while AC (shown in red) is a face diagonal and has length .. In geometry, a diagonal is a line segment joining two vertices of a polygon or polyhedron, when those vertices are not on the same edge.
Side (), circumradius (), inscribed circle radius (), height (+), width/diagonal ()A regular pentagon has Schläfli symbol {5} and interior angles of 108°.. A regular pentagon has five lines of reflectional symmetry, and rotational symmetry of order 5 (through 72°, 144°, 216° and 288°).
The converse is the Braikenridge–Maclaurin theorem, named for 18th-century British mathematicians William Braikenridge and Colin Maclaurin , which states that if the three intersection points of the three pairs of lines through opposite sides of a hexagon lie on a line, then the six vertices of the hexagon lie on a conic; the conic may be ...
The diagonals divide the polygon into 1, 4, 11, 24, ... pieces. [ a ] For a regular n -gon inscribed in a circle of radius 1 {\displaystyle 1} , the product of the distances from a given vertex to all other vertices (including adjacent vertices and vertices connected by a diagonal) equals n .
Consider, for example, five tangent lines to a parabola. These may be considered sides of a hexagon whose sixth side is the line at infinity, but there is no line at infinity in the affine plane. In two instances, a line from a (non-existent) vertex to the opposite vertex would be a line parallel to one of the five tangent lines. Brianchon's ...
If a hexagon has an inscribed conic, then by Brianchon's theorem its principal diagonals are concurrent (as in the above image). Concurrent lines arise in the dual of Pappus's hexagon theorem. For each side of a cyclic hexagon, extend the adjacent sides to their intersection, forming a triangle exterior to the given side.