Regular polygrams {n/d}, with red lines showing constant
d, and blue lines showing compound sequences k{n/d}
In geometry, a generalized polygon can be called a polygram, and named specifically by its number of sides, so a regular pentagram, {5/2}, has 5 sides, and the regular hexagram, {6/2} or 2{3} has 6 sides divided into two triangles.
A regular polygram {p/q} can either be in a set of regular polygons (for gcd(p,q)=1, q>1) or in a set of regular polygon compounds (if gcd(p,q)>1).[1]
Contents
- 1 Etymology
- 2 Generalized regular polygons
- 3 Regular compound polygons
- 4 See also
- 5 References
Etymology
The polygram names combine a numeral prefix, such as penta-, with the Greek suffix -gram (in this case generating the word pentagram). The prefix is normally a Greek cardinal, but synonyms using other prefixes exist. The -gram suffix derives from γραμμῆς (grammos) meaning a line.[2]
Generalized regular polygons
Further information: Regular_polygon § Regular_star_polygons
A regular polygram, as a general regular polygon, is denoted by its Schläfli symbol {p/q}, where p and q are relatively prime (they share no factors) and q ≥ 2. For integers p and q, it can be considered as being constructed by connecting every qth point out of p points regularly spaced in a circular placement.[3][4]
{5/2} |
{7/2} |
{7/3} |
{8/3} |
{9/2} |
{9/4} |
{10/3}... |
Regular compound polygons
Further information: List_of_regular_polytopes_and_compounds § Two_dimensions
In other cases where n and m have a common factor, a polygram is interpreted as a lower polygon, {n/k,m/k}, with k = gcd(n,m), and rotated copies are combined as a compound polygon. These figures are called regular compound polygons.
Some regular polygon compounds
Triangles... |
Squares... |
Pentagons... |
Pentagrams... |
{6/2}=2{3} |
{9/3}=3{3} |
{12/4}=4{3} |
{8/2}=2{4} |
{12/3}=3{4} |
{10/2}=2{5} |
{10/4}=2{5/2} |
{15/6}=3{5/2} |
See also
- List of regular polytopes and compounds#Stars
References
- ^ Weisstein, Eric W. "Polygram". MathWorld.
- ^ γραμμή, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
- ^ Coxeter, Harold Scott Macdonald (1973). Regular polytopes. Courier Dover Publications. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-486-61480-9.
- ^ Weisstein, Eric W. "Polygram". MathWorld.
- Cromwell, P.; Polyhedra, CUP, Hbk. 1997, ISBN 0-521-66432-2. Pbk. (1999), ISBN 0-521-66405-5. p. 175
- Grünbaum, B. and G.C. Shephard; Tilings and Patterns, New York: W. H. Freeman & Co., (1987), ISBN 0-7167-1193-1.
- Grünbaum, B.; Polyhedra with Hollow Faces, Proc of NATO-ASI Conference on Polytopes ... etc. (Toronto 1993), ed T. Bisztriczky et al., Kluwer Academic (1994) pp. 43–70.
- John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strass, The Symmetries of Things 2008, ISBN 978-1-56881-220-5 (Chapter 26. pp. 404: Regular star-polytopes Dimension 2)
- Robert Lachlan, An Elementary Treatise on Modern Pure Geometry. London: Macmillan, 1893, p. 83 polygrams.
- Branko Grünbaum, Metamorphoses of polygons, published in The Lighter Side of Mathematics: Proceedings of the Eugène Strens Memorial Conference on Recreational Mathematics and its History, (1994)
Regular polygons
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Listed by number of sides
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1–10 sides |
- Monogon
- Digon
- Equilateral triangle
- Square
- Pentagon
- Hexagon
- Heptagon
- Octagon
- Nonagon (Enneagon)
- Decagon
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11–20 sides |
- Hendecagon
- Dodecagon
- Tridecagon
- Tetradecagon
- Pentadecagon
- Hexadecagon
- Heptadecagon
- Octadecagon
- Enneadecagon
- Icosagon
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21–100 sides
(selected) |
- Icositetragon (24)
- Triacontagon (30)
- Triacontadigon (32)
- Tetracontagon (40)
- Tetracontadigon (42)
- Tetracontaoctagon (48)
- Pentacontagon (50)
- Hexacontagon (60)
- Hexacontatetragon (64)
- Heptacontagon (70)
- Octacontagon (80)
- Enneacontagon (90)
- Enneacontahexagon (96)
- Hectogon (100)
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>100 sides |
- 120-gon
- 257-gon
- 360-gon
- Chiliagon (1,000)
- Myriagon (10,000)
- 65537-gon
- Megagon (1,000,000)
- Apeirogon (∞)
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Star polygons
(5–12 sides) |
- Pentagram
- Hexagram
- Heptagram
- Octagram
- Enneagram
- Decagram
- Hendecagram
- Dodecagram
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