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because bob named it that... Ok?

If you mean the building, it is because it is pentagonal in shape. If you mean the shape, "pentagon" is greek for "five angles".

Actually, I think the Pentagon is named so because of the five branches of the military: U.S. Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard. And then it was built to be five sided to represent those branches.

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The building "The pentagone" is shaped like a pentagone the 5 sided polygone. Penta means 5 in Latin and a polygon is a shape with no intersecting or curved lines, and all the lines are straight. So Penta + Polygon (Shape) = Pentagon, a 5 sided shape!

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The White House and the Pentagon are two different buildings. The pentagon is a government building with five sides that serves as the headquarters of the United States Department of Defense.

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The word pentagon describes a five-sided figure. The word is derived from the greek pente- which means five.

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