dihectagon

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Etymology

From di- +‎ hecto- +‎ -gon.

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Noun

dihectagon (plural dihectagons)

  1. (geometry, rare) A polygon with two hundred sides and two hundred angles.
    • 2014, Charles W. Nigh, Geometric Shapes & Forms:
      Dihectagon — 200 Sides
    • 2016 February 29, Greg N., “Dihectagon”, in 3D Warehouse:
      A Dihectagon is a 200 sided shape. Made using the polygon tool.
    • 2017, Ed Southall, Yes, But Why? Teaching for Understanding in Mathematics, page 90:
      Figure 4.57 A dihectagon looks very similar to a circle. Figure 4.57 shows a 200-sided shape (a dihectagon). It looks very much like a circle now, but it isn't
    • 2019, Kevin Lynch, “Knowing What an Experience Is Like and the Reductive Theory of Knowledge‐wh”, in Analytic Philosophy, volume 61, number 3, →DOI:
      I understand what a hectogon (a one hundred-sided figure) is for instance, but cannot imagine one, at least not in such a way that my image would be distinct from my image of a dihectagon (see Descartes 2008 [1641]: 51-52).

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