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Here is an excerpt from John Conway, a very famous mathematician in which he describes how he names the regular polygons.Conway says:"Antreas Hatzipolakis and I worked out a complete system up to the millions from which this is taken, and which has also been "vetted" by several other scholars. The most important of the reasons which make me prefer the "Kai" forms is that they permit these prefixes to be unambiguously parsed even when concatenated, as they are in Kepler's names for certain polyhedra; for example, the icosidodecahedron or (20,12)-hedron, so called because it has 20 faces of one type and 12 of another. Kepler said "this particular triacontakaidihedron I call the icosidodecahedron", a remark showing that he also preferred the Kai forms."
Now using this we have: 1 monogon
2 digon
3 trigon, triangle
4 tetragon, quadrilateral
5 pentagon
6 hexagon
7 heptagon
8 octagon
9 enneagon
10 decagon
11 hendecagon
12 dodecagon
13 triskaidecagon
14 tetrakaidecagon, tetradecagon
15 pentakaidecagon, pentadecagon
16 hexakaidecagon, hexadecagon
17 heptakaidecagon
18 octakaidecagon
19 enneakaidecagon
20 icosagon
21 icosikaihenagon, icosihenagon
22 icosikaidigon
23 icosikaitrigon
24 icosikaitetragon
25 icosikaipentagon
26 icosikaihexagon
27 icosikaiheptagon
28 icosikaioctagon
29 icosikaienneagon
30 triacontagon
31 triacontakaihenagon
32 triacontakaidigon
33 triacontakaitrigon
34 triacontakaitetragon
35 triacontakaipentagon
36 triacontakaihexagon
37 triacontakaiheptagon
38 triacontakaioctagon
39 triacontakaienneagon
40 tetracontagon
41 tetracontakaihenagon
42 tetracontakaidigon
43 tetracontakaitrigon
44 tetracontakaitetragon
45 tetracontakaipentagon
46 tetracontakaihexagon
47 tetracontakaiheptagon
48 tetracontakaioctagon
49 tetracontakaienneagon
50 pentacontagon ...
60 hexacontagon ...
70 heptacontagon ...
80 octacontagon ...
90 enneacontagon ...
100 hectogon, hecatontagon
1000 chiliagon
10000 myriagon
The "gon" has an interesting etymology: it is ultimately derived from the Greek word "gonu" for "knee", which they transferred to "angle". This word goes straight back to the Indo-European, and is essentially the same in lots of languages:
gonu (Greek) genu (Latin) k nee (English)
Having said this, if you cannot remember the term, it is safe to use the natural number, n and say an n-gon. So 32 sided polygon can be called a 32-gon and this terminology is widely used and understood among mathematicians. It is very nice to use the correct word, however, often times the price of using it is that many people do not understand what you mean.
What else can I help you with?
What is a 32-sided polygon called?
A polygon with 32 sides is known as a triacontakaidigon.
What are the first eight polygons called?
A polygon with 3 sides is called triangle A polygon with 4 sides is called quadrilateral A polygon with 5 sides is called pentagon A polygon with 6 sides is called hexagon A polygon with 7 sides is called heptagon A polygon with 8 sides is called octagon
What is a polygon with 7 sides called?
A polygon with 7 sides is called a heptagon.
What is a polygon with seven sides?
A polygon with seven sides is called a septagon.
Which polygon has 6 sides?
The polygon that has 6 sides is called a hexagon
What is a 32-sided polygon called?
A polygon with 32 sides is known as a triacontakaidigon.
What are the first eight polygons called?
A polygon with 3 sides is called triangle A polygon with 4 sides is called quadrilateral A polygon with 5 sides is called pentagon A polygon with 6 sides is called hexagon A polygon with 7 sides is called heptagon A polygon with 8 sides is called octagon
What is a polygon with 7 sides called?
A polygon with 7 sides is called a heptagon.
What is a polygon with 17 sides called?
Heptadecagon.
What is a polygon with 1000 sides called?
hectagon is the answer
A polygon with twentyone sides?
A polygon with 21 sides is called an Icosagon.
Which polygon has 6 sides?
The polygon that has 6 sides is called a hexagon
What is a polygon with seven sides?
A polygon with seven sides is called a septagon.
What is a polygon that has 9 sides?
a polygon with 9 sides is called a nonagon
What is the of the polygon that has 5 sides?
A polygon with 5 sides is called a pentagon.
What is a polygon that has 10 sides?
A polygon with 10 sides is called a decagon.
What is polygon with 5 sides?
A polygon with 5 sides is called a Pentagon.
