Showing posts with label geometry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label geometry. Show all posts

18 February 2010

Enneacontakaihenagon

Let me just document the highlight of my day: I just found out that a polygon with 1,000 sides is called "chiliagon." (To which, I asked: E aanhin ko naman ang polygon na may 1,000 sides?)

And while I am at it aready, let me share with you that a polygon with 10,000 sides is called "myriagon"; and if it has 1,000,000 sides, it's "megagon." Now, here is the awesome part: the internal angle of a regular megagon (the polygon with a million sides) is 179.99964 degrees! Whoa! Note that a straight line has 180 degrees. Can you imagine that polygon/plane figure with an almost-straight-line interior angle? Galing no?
At this point, you are probably so ecstatic with the new knowledge I have imparted to you. Who wouldn't be?

Ladies and gentlemen, this is what happens when you try to write something even if the better part of you advises you otherwise.


PS: Enneacontakaihenagon is a polygon with 91 sides.