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Three types of polygons

Figure 2: The points of a plane that are not on a polygon are separated by the polygon into two regions, the “inside” and the “outside.”

Figure 1: A polygon whose vertices are lattice points.

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Three types of polygons

Figure 2: The points of a plane that are not on a polygon are separated by the polygon into two regions, the “inside” and the “outside.”

Figure 1: A polygon whose vertices are lattice points.

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triangle hexagon regular polygon flexagon rhombus Pascal’s triangle Heron’s formula parallelogram right triangle trihexaflexagon polyhedron Euler characteristic

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Carl Friedrich Gauss

Carl Friedrich Gauss

German mathematician

Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.

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