Pentagon

In geometry, a pentagon (from the Greek πέντε pente and γωνία gonia, meaning five and angle) is any five-sided polygon or 5-gon. The sum of the internal angles in a simple pentagon is 540°.Pentagonal cross-section of okra.Morning glories, like many other flowers, have a pentagonal shape.The gynoecium of an apple contains five carpels, arranged in a five-pointed starStarfruit is another fruit with fivefold symmetry.A sea star. Many echinoderms have fivefold radial symmetry.Another example of echinoderm, a sea urchin endoskeleton.An illustration of brittle stars, also echinoderms with a pentagonal shape.A Ho-Mg-Zn icosahedral quasicrystal formed as a pentagonal dodecahedron. The faces are true regular pentagons.A pyritohedron crystal of pyrite. A pyritohedron has 12 identical pentagonal faces that are not constrained to be regular.The Pentagon, headquarters of the United States Department of Defense.Home plate of a baseball field In geometry, a pentagon (from the Greek πέντε pente and γωνία gonia, meaning five and angle) is any five-sided polygon or 5-gon. The sum of the internal angles in a simple pentagon is 540°. A pentagon may be simple or self-intersecting. A self-intersecting regular pentagon (or star pentagon) is called a pentagram. A regular pentagon has Schläfli symbol {5} and interior angles are 108°. A regular pentagon has five lines of reflectional symmetry, and rotational symmetry of order 5 (through 72°, 144°, 216° and 288°). The diagonals of a convex regular pentagon are in the golden ratio to its sides. Its height (distance from one side to the opposite vertex) and width (distance between two farthest separated points, which equals the diagonal length) are given by where R is the radius of the circumcircle. The area of a convex regular pentagon with side length t is given by A pentagram or pentangle is a regular star pentagon. Its Schläfli symbol is {5/2}. Its sides form the diagonals of a regular convex pentagon – in this arrangement the sides of the two pentagons are in the golden ratio. When a regular pentagon is circumscribed by a circle with radius R, its edge length t is given by the expression