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marivical

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Registered: 2009-01-27

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all about polygon

guys please help me...my niece has an assignment, it's all about polygons...questions are: who discovered polygon with 35 sides? year is was discovered? the history of it? and the figure of polygon...hope you can help me do the homework asap please...thanks!

JaneFairfax

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Registered: 2007-02-23

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Re: all about polygon

Those questions do not make any reasonable sense at all. What exactly is the wording of the questions on the assignment?

careless25

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Re: all about polygon

name: triacontakaipentagon
I have no idea who discovered it and in what year.

here are some more:
5 pentagon
6 hexagon
7 heptagon
8 octagon
9 enneagon
10 decagon
11 hendecagon
12 dodecagon
13 triskaidecagon
14 tetrakaidecagon, tetradecagon
15 pentakaidecagon, pentadecagon
16 hexakaidecagon, hexadecagon
17 heptakaidecagon
18 octakaidecagon
19 enneakaidecagon
20 icosagon
21 icosikaihenagon, icosihenagon
22 icosikaidigon
23 icosikaitrigon
24 icosikaitetragon
25 icosikaipentagon
26 icosikaihexagon
27 icosikaiheptagon
28 icosikaioctagon
29 icosikaienneagon
30 triacontagon
31 triacontakaihenagon
32 triacontakaidigon
33 triacontakaitrigon
34 triacontakaitetragon
35 triacontakaipentagon
36 triacontakaihexagon
37 triacontakaiheptagon
38 triacontakaioctagon
39 triacontakaienneagon
40 tetracontagon
41 tetracontakaihenagon
42 tetracontakaidigon
43 tetracontakaitrigon
44 tetracontakaitetragon
45 tetracontakaipentagon
46 tetracontakaihexagon
47 tetracontakaiheptagon
48 tetracontakaioctagon
49 tetracontakaienneagon
50 pentacontagon ...
60 hexacontagon ...
70 heptacontagon ...
80 octacontagon ...
90 enneacontagon ...
100 hectogon, hecatontagon
1000 chiliagon
10000 myriagon

JaneFairfax

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Registered: 2007-02-23

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Re: all about polygon

The question is:

who discovered polygon with 35 sides?

You might as well ask who discovered the square, or who discovered the sphere.

marivical

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Registered: 2009-01-27

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Re: all about polygon

thanks for your reply guys....miss janefairfax that was exactly the question of their assignment, that's why i am confused...anyway thanks for taking time to my post...

Identity

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Re: all about polygon

Maybe marivical means who found the construction (i don't know if it even exists though)

JaneFairfax

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Re: all about polygon

Can you construct a 35-sided polygon with compass & straightedge at all?

Monox D. I-Fly

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Re: all about polygon

If people from Ancient Greeks could construct a pentagon and a heptagon, I am sure that some good mathematicians can make it because 35 is just 5 x 7.

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