Question:
Anybody know any unusual facts about the pentagon?
Peridot_22
2006-04-24 08:20:31 UTC
I want really weird facts.So don't hesitate.
Six answers:
hapefish
2006-04-24 15:20:42 UTC
I always found this one interesting:



You may have heard of the Ancient Greek society called the Pythagoreans (they were followers of Pythagorus - hence the Pythagorean Theorem). Anyway, rumor says that they used the pentagon as their symbol whenever they wanted to correspond with each other via a letter. Why did they do this? Because it is VERY hard to draw a regular pentagon freehand. Go ahead, try it, I would bet that it looks pretty funny when you're done.



Anyway, they had a secret to drawing it that they only shared with others in the group: They would take 5 triangles (probably equilateral - but isosceles would work also) and assemble them into the top of a pyramid-like figure. When you look at the bottom of this figure, it makes a pentagon - and a regular one. YOu can then trace around the outside edge of this pentagon, take apart your pyramid-like thingie, and you have your seal which others can't re-create.



Anyway, that's the rumor about it... I think it's pretty cool...
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2017-01-20 15:14:37 UTC
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Raj
2006-04-24 16:17:06 UTC
If u mean polygon then,



What is a Polygon?



A closed plane figure made up of several line segments that are joined together. The sides do not cross each other. Exactly two sides meet at every vertex.



Types of Polygons



Regular - all angles are equal and all sides are the same length. Regular polygons are both equiangular and equilateral.

Equiangular - all angles are equal.

Equilateral - all sides are the same length.

Convex - a straight line drawn through a convex polygon crosses at most two sides. Every interior angle is less than 180°.

Concave - you can draw at least one straight line through a concave polygon that crosses more than two sides. At least one interior angle is more than 180°.



Polygon Formulas



(N = # of sides and S = length from center to a corner)



Area of a regular polygon = (1/2) N sin(360°/N) S2



Sum of the interior angles of a polygon = (N - 2) x 180°



The number of diagonals in a polygon = 1/2 N(N-3)



The number of triangles (when you draw all the diagonals from one vertex) in a polygon = (N - 2)



Polygon Parts,



Side - one of the line segments that make up the polygon.

Vertex - point where two sides meet. Two or more of these points are called vertices.

Diagonal - a line connecting two vertices that isn't a side.

Interior Angle - Angle formed by two adjacent sides inside the polygon.

Exterior Angle - Angle formed by two adjacent sides outside the polygon.



Special Polygons,



Special Quadrilaterals - square, rhombus, parallelogram, rectangle, and the trapezoid.



Special Triangles - right, equilateral, isosceles, scalene, acute, obtuse.



Polygon Names,



Generally accepted names.



Sides Name

n N-gon

3 Triangle

4 Quadrilateral

5 Pentagon

6 Hexagon

7 Heptagon

8 Octagon

10 Decagon

12 Dodecagon



Names for other polygons have been proposed,



Sides Name

9 Nonagon, Enneagon

11 Undecagon, Hendecagon

13 Tridecagon, Triskaidecagon

14 Tetradecagon, Tetrakaidecagon

15 Pentadecagon, Pentakaidecagon

16 Hexadecagon, Hexakaidecagon

17 Heptadecagon, Heptakaidecagon

18 Octadecagon, Octakaidecagon

19 Enneadecagon, Enneakaidecagon

20 Icosagon

30 Triacontagon

40 Tetracontagon

50 Pentacontagon

60 Hexacontagon

70 Heptacontagon

80 Octacontagon

90 Enneacontagon

100 Hectogon, Hecatontagon

1,000 Chiliagon

10,000 Myriagon



To construct a name, combine the prefix+suffix,



Sides Prefix Sides Suffix



20 Icosikai... +1...henagon

30 Triacontakai... +2...digon

40 Tetracontakai... +3...trigon

50 Pentacontakai... + +4...tetragon

60 Hexacontakai... +5...pentagon

70 Heptacontakai... +6...hexagon

80 Octacontakai... +7...heptagon

90 Enneacontakai... +8...octagon

+9...eneagon



Examples:

46 sided polygon - Tetracontakaihexagon



28 sided polygon - Icosikaioctagon



However, many people use the form n-gon, as in 46-gon, or 28-gon instead of these names.



I think i have helped u,



& if u mean pentagon then,



A pentagon is a five-sided polygon. Commonly, the term "pentagon" is used to refer to the regular pentagon.



The regular pentagon is the regular polygon with five sides.



A number of distance relationships between vertices of the pentagon can be derived by similar triangles



d/1=1/1/fi=fi

where is the diagonal distance.But the dashed vertical line connecting two nonadjacent polygon vertices is the same length as the diagonal one, so



fi=1+1/fi

fi*2-fi-1



Solving the quadratic equation and taking the plus sign (since the distance must be positive) gives the golden ratio



fi=1/2(1+underroot 5)



The coordinates of the vertices of a regular pentagon inscribed in a unit circle relative to the center of the pentagon are



c1=cos(2 pi/5)=1/4(underroot 5-1)

c2=cos(pi/5)=1/4(underroot5+1)

s1=sin(2 pi/5)=1/4 whole undrroot of(10+2 underroot5)

s2=sin(4 pi/5)=1/4 whole undrroot of(10-2 underroot5)

These points are located at every edge of pentagon such as;

(c1,s1)(1,0)(c1,-s1)(-c2,-s2)(-c2,s2)



The circumradius, inradius, sagitta, and area of a regular pentagon of side length alpha are given by;



R=1/10 @ whole root of(50+10 root 5)

r=1/10 @ whole root of(25+10 root 5)

x=1/10 @ whole root of(25-10 root 5)

A=1/4 @*2 whole root of(25+10 root 5)

where @=alpha.



Five pentagons can be arranged around an identical pentagon to form the first iteration of the "pentaflake," which itself has the shape of a pentagon with five triangular wedges removed. For a pentagon of side length 1, the first ring of pentagons has centers at radius fi , the second ring at fi cube , and the th at fi to the power 2x-1.



In proposition IV.11, Euclid showed how to inscribe a regular pentagon in a circle. Ptolemy also gave a ruler and compass construction for the pentagon in his epoch-making work The Almagest. While Ptolemy's construction has a simplicity of 16, a geometric construction using Carlyle circles can be made with geometrography symbol , which has simplicity 15 (De Temple 1991).



The following elegant construction for the pentagon is due to Richmond (1893). Given a point, a circle may be constructed of any desired radius, and a diameter drawn through the center. Call the center O, and the right end of the diameter P1 . The diameter perpendicular to the original diameter may be constructed by finding the perpendicular bisector. Call the upper endpoint of this perpendicular diameter B. For the pentagon, find the midpoint of OB and call it D. Draw DP1, and bisect angleODP1 , calling the intersection point withOP1N2 . Draw N2P2 parallel to OB , and the first two points of the pentagon are P1 and P2 , and copying the angle P1OP2 then gives the remaining points P3P4P5, , and (Coxeter 1969, Wells 1991).



Madachy (1979) illustrates how to construct a pentagon by folding and knotting a strip of paper.
2006-04-24 08:31:51 UTC
1) If you draw all 5 diagonals in regular pentagon, each diagonal will be broken into 3 pieces (AB,BC,CD for example). So, lengths of that pieces will make a golden section: BC and AC, AC and AD.



2) A strange fact about series of inscribed pentagons is described in attached article 1.



3) Regular pentagon cannot be used when making an uniform planar tiling (see article 2). But there are some sort of non-regular pentagons, which can make such a tiling (see article 3)
akbutner2
2006-04-24 08:25:21 UTC
When 9/11 happened, if the plane had it any other side the entire thing would have collapsed. The building hadn't been up to code since the 50's. They were in the process of updating it and had just finished that side.
Sir Chyver
2006-04-24 08:23:11 UTC
Couple of unusual questions about pentagon.Who was contracted to build it?Who came up with the location and design?Is it a factory like 51?


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