Regular 65537-gon | |
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A regular 65537-gon
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Type | Regular polygon |
Edges and vertices | 65537 |
Schläfli symbol | {65537} |
Coxeter diagram | |
Symmetry group | Dihedral (D65537), order 2×65537 |
Internal angle (degrees) | ≈179.99° |
Dual polygon | Self |
Properties | Convex, cyclic, equilateral, isogonal, isotoxal |
In geometry, a 65537-gon is a polygon with 65537 sides. The sum of the interior angles of any non-self-intersecting 65537-gon is 11796300°.
The area of a regular 65537-gon is (with t = edge length)
A whole regular 65537-gon is not visually discernible from a circle, and its perimeter differs from that of the circumscribed circle by about 15 parts per billion.
The regular 65537-gon (one with all sides equal and all angles equal) is of interest for being a constructible polygon: that is, it can be constructed using a compass and an unmarked straightedge. This is because 65537 is a Fermat prime, being of the form 22n + 1 (in this case n = 4). Thus, the values and are of a 32768-degree algebraic numbers, and like any constructible numbers they can be written in terms of square roots and no higher-order roots.