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Ed Wall
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Re: what is an 11-20 sided polygon called
Posted:
Oct 13, 2003 2:33 PM
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Well, if 20 weren't included, perhaps teenagons (smile). Fowler, for
example, notes that the tens were written as iota (10), kappa (20),
etc. So one could, I suppose, call 10 through 19 iotagons and 20
through 29 kappagons.
Ed Wall
At 11:33 AM -0600 10/13/03, me@talmanl1.mscd.edu wrote:
>John Conway wrote;
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>> [Ken Pledger wrote:]
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>> > > what are the names for polygons with 11 to 20 sides called?
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>> Aha - this is a new problem! Has anyone a good idea for what
>> these names should be called?
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>Polygonomials?
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>--Lou Talman
> Department of Mathematical & Computer Sciences
> Metropolitan State College of Denver
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