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Topic: Names of polygons
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CLEMENTS@ubvms.cc.buffalo.edu

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Re: 11-gon
Posted: Oct 23, 1994 5:43 AM
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In an old lesson of ours, we went this far for fun:

11 undecagon
12 dodecagon
15 pentadecagon


and had a couple of old substitutes, such as:

4 tetragon
12 duodecagon


Any others that fill in (e.g., 13, 14...) would be interesting to know about...



Thanks,

Doug
Douglas H. Clements
State University of New York at Buffalo
Department of Learning and Instruction
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Buffalo, NY 14260
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