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a polygon doesn't have a radius... a circle has a radius. the area of a circle is pi times the radius squared.

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While it is true that a polygon does not have a radius, it does have a circumradius. This is the radius of the circle which passes through each of the polygon's vertices.

If the circumradius is r units, and the polygon has n sides, then its area will be

1/2*n*r2*sin(2π/n) square units, where the angle is measured in radians.

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