Polygon shape names11/5/2023 ![]() *At some point in the future I would like to play around with Google’s search, and figure out (to the best of my ability) how it deals with and/or/not/parentheses, and write about it on this blog. From what I can tell it was John Conway and Antreas Hatzipolakis who completed the namings up to the millions. Here is what I found.Īpparently there are two naming conventions (one with kai’s and one without). For example, a polygon with 47 sides would be called tetracontakaiheptagon or a tetracontaheptagon (of course, in practice mathematicians usually opt for the more compact and boring 47-gon). One thing I found interesting while searching for information about polygons was their naming conventions. There are names for other shapes with sides of the same length. Here is a graph to illustrate the relative popularity of the n-gons. Irregular polygons have sides of different lengths and angles. Rectangle/quadrilateral/tetragon/quadrangle (4 sides)-1,748,450 hits.Triangle/trigon (3 sides)-2,633,500 Google hits.The plural name of a polyhedron is polyhedra or sometimes polyhedrons. In other words, a polyhedron is a three-dimensional variant of the most common polytope, which defines an arbitrary dimension. So here they are (drum roll, please), the top eight most popular polygons with 10 or fewer sides. In geometry, a polyhedron is just a three-dimensional solid consisting of a group of polygons, ordinarily connected at their edges. Neither of these is a perfect solution, but hey, this is just a blog and not a submission to. * To solve the second problem I added the number of search results for each of the terms. To solve the first problem I entered the term geometry before the name of the polygon (for example I searched for geometry pentagon). Second, certain polygons have more than one name (rectangle, quadrilateral, tetragon, quadrangle). The 'kai' connector is not included by some authors. Systematic polygon names To construct the name of a polygon with more than 20 and fewer than 100 edges, combine the prefixes as follows. The first is that some of these words have nongeometric meanings like triangle and pentagon. Greek numbers Polygons are primarily named by prefixes from Ancient Greek numbers. The more hits, the more popular the term. ![]() So, I decided to google the terms and see which polygons received the most hits. Both of my kids (one of whom is 2 years old) know what an octagon is, but I doubt my college students know the heptagon. (I feel bad for Heptagon, who apparently wasn’t invited to the party.) I first posted this video back in September.
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