What is the shape that has the most sides called?

Answer 1

Imagine a square. It has four sides of equal length.

Now imagine a hexagon with the same area as the square. It has six sides, all of equal length; however, the hexagon's sides are shorter than the square's.

Now imagine an octagon with the same area as the previous two shapes. It has eight sides, but each of its sides is even shorter than the square or hexagon.

Now then ... imagine a shape with an infinite number of sides, but with the same area as our original square. Each of the infinite number of sides must be infinitely small (because the perimeter of shape is still finite, since its area is finite). This shape is a circle.

One way to think of a circle is as a polygon with an infinite number of sides. By this way of thinking, the circle has more sides than any other polygon.