Definition:Pentagon/Regular

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Definition

A regular pentagon is a pentagon which is both equilateral and equiangular.

That is, a regular polygon with $5$ sides.

That is, a pentagon in which all the sides are the same length, and all the vertices have the same angle:

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Linguistic Note

The word pentagon derives from the Classical Greek:

pente (πέντε), meaning five
gon, deriving from the Greek word for corner.


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