A polygon whose sides are equal (Williams 1979, pp. 31-32) Look up Polygon on Wiktionary, the free dictionary For other use please see Polygon (disambiguation) A polygon (literally many angle, see Wiktionary for the etymology) is a closed planar path composed of a finite number of sequential line segments. ...
If a polygon is simple, then its sides (and vertices) constitute the boundary of a polygonal region, and the term polygon sometimes also describes the interior of the polygonal region (the open area that this path encloses) or the union of both the region and its boundary.
Polygons are named according to the number of sides, combining a Greek-derived numerical prefix with the suffix -gon, e.g.
An equilateral quadrilateral is a rhombus, an equiangular quadrilateral is a rectangle or an "angular eight" with vertices on a rectangle.
In ordinary usage, a regular polygon is a convex polygon with all its sides equal and all its angles equal, that is, a polygon that is both equilateral and equiangular.
A regular triangle is also known as an equilateral triangle, and a regular quadrilateral is also known as a square.
This is version 8 of regular polygon, born on 2002-02-19, modified 2004-03-09.
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