Talk:List of polygons

Examples
Examples of names for polygons {n}, where n is a superior highly composite number:


 * {2}: digon
 * {6}: hexagon
 * {12}: dodecagon
 * {60}: hexecontagon (or hexacontagon)
 * {120}: hecatonicosagon (or dodecacontagon)
 * {360}: triacosihexecontagon (or triacosihexacontagon)
 * {2520}: dischiliapentacosiicosagon
 * {5040}: pentakischiliatetracontagon

Beyond this the table does not tell us how to name the polygons. I do have an extension to the system, but I wouldn't use it on Wikipedia. Furthermore, it seems to make more sense to call such polygons "55440-gons" and the like, if one needs to refer to them at all. With this in mind, though, here's what my extension would produce:


 * {5 5440}: pentakismyriapentakischiliatetracositetracontagon
 * {72 0720}: hebdomecontadismyriaheptacosiicosagon
 * {144 1440}: hectotetracontatetrakismyriachiliatetracositetracontagon
 * {432 4320}: tetracositriacontadismyriatetrakischiliatriacosiicosagon
 * {2162 1600}: dischiliahectohexecontadismyriachiliahexacosigon

My system gives out here before {108}, the myriakismyriagon, as then we need parentheses to start making sense of the multiplicative constructions stacking myriads upon myriads. Double sharp (talk) 15:26, 29 October 2015 (UTC)
 * Well, since Archimedes' way of naming numbers from 104 to 108 has been added to the table and it is legitimate ancient Greek, I have added a few examples of higher numbers to the table. (The five-digit multiples of 10000 were already there.) Double sharp (talk) 05:53, 27 September 2019 (UTC)

Article title
Perhaps this article ought to be titled Names of polygons instead? Double sharp (talk) 02:41, 24 October 2018 (UTC)


 * @Double sharp yes 92.23.75.62 (talk) 16:49, 23 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I disagree, although taking a look now, I'm not sure how the actual list of polygons got pushed lower down. The list of polygons with links should be the first section IMO, and the other naming trivia can be pushed down lower.  SnowFire (talk) 03:52, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
 * @SnowFire I agree 92.24.83.192 (talk) 12:35, 12 June 2023 (UTC)