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The "official" names are icositetragon tetracontaoctagon enneacontahexagon if anyone cares. A "myriagon" would be a polygon with 10000 sides. The word "macaronic" is usually used for a word made of pieces from several languages - one doesn't need "linguistic heteromorph"!
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4) In summary, a "polygon" is a thing with many knees, and a "polyhedron" a thing with many seats. ... enneacontahexagon if anyone cares. A "myriagon" would be a polygon with 10000 sides. . . . I see that "undecagon" and "duodecagon" have been rearing their ugly heads again. The full set is ...
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(The slot partitions prevent balls sliding of to the side, leveling the bottom output.) It can be shown that there are many more paths toward the middle of the board than toward the sides, so that more marbles collect between the middle slots than betweem those on the sides.
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Unlike many later Greek mathematicians, there are no documented writings attributed to Pythagoras. It is believed ... This theorem contends that the sum of the squares of the sides of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse, hypotenuse being the side of a right-angled triangle opposite the right angle.
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Mathematical Education in the Life of Florence Nightingale ... By Sally Lipsey ... Reprinted with permission of the author from the Newsletter of the Association for Women in Mathematics, Vol. 23, No.4 (July/August 1993), 11-12.
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