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Regular Hexagon
Eric W. Weisstein
Author
Eric W. Weisstein
Title
Regular Hexagon
Description
The regular hexagon is the regular polygon with six sides, as illustrated above. The inradius r, circumradius R, sagitta s, and area A of a regular hexagon can be computed directly from the formulas for a general regular polygon with side length a and n=6 sides, r = 1/2acot(pi/6) (1) = 1/2sqrt(3)a (2) R = 1/2acsc(pi/6) (3) = a (4) s = 1/2atan(pi/(12)) (5) = 1/2(2-sqrt(3))a (6) A = 1/4na^2cot(pi/6) (7) = 3/2sqrt(3)a^2. (8) Therefore, for a regular hexagon, ...
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http://www.notebookarchive.org/2019-07-0z5js14/
DOI
https://notebookarchive.org/2019-07-0z5js14
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2019-07-02
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Cite this as: Eric W. Weisstein, "Regular Hexagon" from the Notebook Archive (2018), https://notebookarchive.org/2019-07-0z5js14
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