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500,000-gon, t{500,000}, a twice-truncated 250,000-gon, tt{250,000}, a thrice-truncated 125,000-gon, ttt{125,000}, or a four-fold-truncated 62,500-gon, tttt{62,500}, a five-fold-truncated 31,250-gon, ttttt{31,250}, or a six-fold-truncated 15,625-gon, tttttt{15,625}.
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of 40,075 kilometres, one edge of a megagon inscribed in such a circle would be slightly over 40 meters long. The difference between the perimeter of the inscribed megagon and the circumference of this circle comes to less than 1/16 millimeters.
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199,999 = 500,000 cases − 1 (convex) − 100,000 (multiples of 5) − 250,000 (multiples of 2) + 50,000 (multiples of 2 and 5)
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The megagon is also used as an illustration of the convergence of regular polygons to a circle.
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labeled these lower symmetries with a letter and order of the symmetry follows the letter.
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These lower symmetries allows degrees of freedom in defining irregular megagons. Only the
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Because 1,000,000 = 2 × 5, the number of sides is not a product of distinct
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megagon has an interior angle of 179°59'58.704" or 3.14158637 radians. The
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The Universal Book of Mathematics: from Abracadabra to Zeno's Paradoxes
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On Understanding Understanding: A Philosophy of Knowledge
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with mirror lines through both vertices and edges, and
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subgroup has no degrees of freedom but can be seen as
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and a power of two. Thus the regular megagon is not a
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This article is about a polygon. For megaton(ne), see
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An Elementary Treatise on the Differential Calculus
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Tonne
Transformers
Megatron

Regular polygon
Edges
vertices
SchlÀfli symbol
Coxeter–Dynkin diagrams
Symmetry group
Dihedral
Internal angle
degrees
Convex
cyclic
equilateral
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isotoxal
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polygon
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SchlÀfli symbol
truncated
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area
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perimeter
circle

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