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| Polygon names |
| Author: | Laurence Furlong |
| Date: | Wednesday, 13th Jun 2001 12:19 |
| Views: | 74,839 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds) |
| URL: | http://www.freepint.com/go/b10415 |
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Triangle, quadrilateral, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, nonagon, decagon I know. But are there names for polygons with 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 20 sides? Or will I just have to be prosaic and say e.g. "an eleven sided polygon"?
Any help much appreciated. |
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 | Polygon names | | Triangle, quadrilateral, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, nonagon, decagon I know. But are there names for polygons with 11, 12, 13, ... |
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Laurence Furlong |
13/06/01 12:19 |
10415 |
 | Re: Polygon names | | yes there are name for polygons with 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 sides they are
12 Dodeagon
13 ... |
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Phillip Dowlat |
11/01/02 02:32 |
14966 |
| | Re: Polygon names | | Google Advanced Search on polygon names:
Answer to your enquiry (and more): http://www.gomath.com/htdocs/ToGosheet/geometry/polygon_name.html
12 Dodecagon, 13 triskaidecagon, 14 tetradecagon, 15 pentadecagon, ... |
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Norman Cutler |
14/01/02 10:46 |
15022 |
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jon |
20/12/01 04:12 |
14701 |
| | Re: Polygon names | | Thanks all for the help. But I'm still confused. Some say 11 sides is 'undecagon' and some say ... |
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Skye |
18/01/02 01:12 |
15167 |
| | Re: Polygon names | | Depends if you want to speak in Latin (un~) or greek (he~). If you use Latin-based names throughout, use ... |
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Edward W. Stollery II |
22/01/02 00:34 |
15258 |
| | Re: Polygon names | | Following article gives info about number prefixes:
http://phrontistery.50megs.com/numbers.html
See table 2.
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Norman Cutler |
21/01/02 14:18 |
15244 |
| | Re: Polygon names | | 1 mono
2 di
3 tri
4 tetra
5 penta
6 hexa
7 hepta
8 okta
9 ennea
10 deka
11 hendeka
12 dodeka
13 triskaideka
14 tetrakaideka
15 pentakaideka ... |
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Jan Hufenbach |
21/01/02 12:13 |
15231 |
| | Re: Polygon names | | When naming polygons, for the "numerical" part of the name, we use the Greek prefixes:
mono, di, tri, tetra, penta, ... |
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netmek |
19/12/01 23:18 |
14698 |
| | Re: Polygon names | | there are names for 11- enfinaty-gons.11 is hendecagon.there are more.just go to google.com ant type polygon names. |
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justin |
04/12/01 16:47 |
14439 |
| | Re: Polygon names | | More than twelve sides seems inconceivable to me - unless you're talking about Afghanistan..... |
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Barry Druker |
29/11/01 14:21 |
14362 |
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Edward W. Stollery II |
02/12/01 02:49 |
14400 |
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Mike Hunt |
27/11/01 21:10 |
14318 |
| | Re: Polygon names | | I found a geometry test with an answer key that says a 12-sided polygon is a dodecagon not to be ... |
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UniversalAxis |
30/10/01 06:01 |
13614 |
| | Re: Polygon names | | Hi Lawrence
Try this site:
http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/faq/faq.polygon.names.html
Cheers
Peter |
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Peter Carter |
15/06/01 10:29 |
10477 |
| | Re: Polygon names | | This might at first seem an odd thing to suggest, but many thermionic radio-valves (tubes - USA) were named/characterised by ... |
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Ian Field |
15/06/01 00:37 |
10470 |
| | Re: Polygon names | | Great! Brilliant!
That's the answer. And some! All the names up to 50 sides and then 60, 70, 80, 90, 100, ... |
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Laurence Furlong |
15/06/01 15:55 |
10507 |
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Steve Wintersgill |
13/06/01 13:13 |
10417 |
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