Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Octagon

Hi,

Today am going to give you some basic knowledge on octagon. In geometry octagon is the one of the polygons shapes, with eight sides. A regular octagon is represented by the below symbol:


A regular octagon has eight sides, eight vertices. These eight sides have equal length and each interior angle measures 1350. The sum of octagon angles measures 10800. An octagon has 20 diagonals, 6 equilateral triangle can form one octagon, The area of an octagon is 4.828 s2 approximately.Regular octagon shape is used widely in the world.: For example the sign of stop board.


I guess now your are quite familiar with the octagon shape. I will give some information on other shapes of polygon. Till then go through it.

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