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Where does the word polygon originate from?
Greek: "poly-" from polus, meaning many. "gon" from gonia, meaning angle. Hence, many angles and implicitly many sides.
What is the name of a polygon with one sides?
A line?? It's impossible to have a polygon with only one side, hence the "poly" meaning many.
What is the prefix of 'dodecagon'?
Dodeca, meaning twelve... in the word octagon 'octa' (eight) is the prefix, polygon 'poly' (many) and so on. These prefixes come from ancient Greek.
What does -gon mean in the word polygon?
It means angle or corner. (poly gon - many angled)
What does the word polygon mean in math?
well poly means more than one or many ( such as polynomial, polygamy) so a polygon is a shapewith many sides.
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