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What is your favorite polygon?

Posted - August 18, 2017

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  • 10054
    I'm not a shapist. I like them all equally. 
      August 18, 2017 12:38 PM MDT
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  • 2217
    The concave ones are a bit more interesting.
      August 18, 2017 1:38 PM MDT
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  • "Triangle"

      August 18, 2017 1:55 PM MDT
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  • The one who didn't get a cracker....Polly gone.  




      August 18, 2017 1:55 PM MDT
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  • 16265
    Beat me to it

      August 19, 2017 1:38 AM MDT
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  • 16265
    Concave tetradecagon
      August 19, 2017 1:44 AM MDT
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  • Circle
      August 31, 2017 11:57 AM MDT
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  • 3684
    I don't have a favourite, but regard the main regular polygons as of equal merit and value, each with its distinct properties: the Triangle, the Square and Rectangle, the Hexagon and the Octagon. 

    Of the regular curves, one of my Maths teachers reckoned the "most beautiful" is the Sine Curve (the trace of y = sinfrom 0º to 360º to obtain a full cycle); and yes it is graceful but more vitally, without it we would have no sound, no sea-waves, no electricity to speak of so no way to chat about it like this....

    Though without the Circle we would not have the electricity either because we would not have rotating machinery to generate it. Nor wheeled transport.

    And to square the circle so to speak, put the Right-angled Triangle polygon and the Circle non-polygon together and process them in the right way, as you can do on graph-paper, and what do they produce? The Sine Curve!


      September 2, 2017 5:27 PM MDT
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