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Do you want to draw a polygon? Polygons are figures consisting of line segments in a closed chain. There are many different types of polygons, but they all have edges (or sides) and vertices (or corners).<ref name="wikipedia">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygon</ref> | Do you want to draw a polygon? Polygons are figures consisting of line segments in a closed chain. There are many different types of polygons, but they all have edges (or sides) and vertices (or corners).<ref name="wikipedia">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygon</ref> | ||
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#Get an idea of what polygon you want to draw. There are many different types of polygons. Polygons are usually classified by the number of sides they have.<ref name="wikipedia"/> For example, a [[Draw a Pentagon|pentagon]] has five sides, a [[Draw a Hexagon|hexagon]] has six, and an [[Make an Octagon|octagon]] has eight. Mathematicians use the term "n-gon" to refer to a polygon with "n" sides. There is no end to the number of sides a polygon can have, and a polygon can be a simple polygon, meaning that its sides don't cross one another, or a star polygon, meaning that they do.<ref name ="wikipedia"/> | #Get an idea of what polygon you want to draw. There are many different types of polygons. Polygons are usually classified by the number of sides they have.<ref name="wikipedia"/> For example, a [[Draw a Pentagon|pentagon]] has five sides, a [[Draw a Hexagon|hexagon]] has six, and an [[Make an Octagon|octagon]] has eight. Mathematicians use the term "n-gon" to refer to a polygon with "n" sides. There is no end to the number of sides a polygon can have, and a polygon can be a simple polygon, meaning that its sides don't cross one another, or a star polygon, meaning that they do.<ref name ="wikipedia"/> | ||
