Sides Name

n N-gon
3 Triangle
4 Quadrilateral
5 Pentagon
6 Hexagon
7 Heptagon
8 Octagon
10 Decagon
12 Dodecagon


Sides Prefix
20 Icosikai...
30 Triacontakai...
40 Tetracontakai...
50 Pentacontakai...
60 Hexacontakai...
70 Heptacontakai...
80 Octacontakai...
90 Enneacontakai...
+
Sides Suffix
+1 ...henagon
+2 ...digon
+3 ...trigon
+4 ...tetragon
+5 ...pentagon
+6 ...hexagon
+7 ...heptagon
+8 ...octagon
+9 ...enneagon
Examples:
46 sided polygon - Tetracontakaihexagon
28 sided polygon - Icosikaioctagon
Types of Polygons
Regular - all angles are equal and all sides
are the same length. Regular polygons are
both equiangular and equilateral.
Equiangular - all angles are equal.
Equilateral - all sides are the same length.

Convex - a straight line drawn
through a convex
polygoncrosses at most two
sides. Every interior angle is less
than 180.

Concave - you can draw at least
one straight line through a
concave polygon
that crosses more than two
sides. At least one interior angle
is more than 180.
Polygon Formulas
(N = # of sides and S = length from center
to a corner)
Sides Name
9 Nonagon, Enneagon
11 Undecagon, Hendecagon
13 Tridecagon, Triskaidecagon
14 Tetradecagon, Tetrakaidecagon
15 Pentadecagon, Pentakaidecagon
16 Hexadecagon, Hexakaidecagon
17 Heptadecagon, Heptakaidecagon
18 Octadecagon, Octakaidecagon
19 Enneadecagon, Enneakaidecagon
20 Icosagon
30 Triacontagon
40 Tetracontagon
50 Pentacontagon
60 Hexacontagon
70 Heptacontagon
80 Octacontagon
90 Enneacontagon
100 Hectogon, Hecatontagon
1,000 Chiliagon
10,000 Myriagon
Area of a regular polygon = (1/2) N
sin(360/N) S
2

Sum of the interior angles of a polygon =
(N - 2) x 180
The number of diagonals in a polygon =
1/2 N(N-3)
The number of triangles (when you draw
all the diagonals from one vertex) in a
polygon = (N - 2)