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Topic: 2 sided polygon on a sphere
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K. E. Pledger

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Re: What do you call a 2 sided polygon?
Posted: Oct 25, 2007 5:29 PM
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> so what would it be?bigon?digon?or what?tell me need an answer!!!!

Since the "-gon" comes from Greek, it's preferable to use the
Greek prefix "di-" rather than the Latin prefix "bi-". The same applies
to a 9-gon: "enneagon" rather than "nonagon".

Ken Pledger.



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