Gnomon (figure)
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In geometry, a gnomon is a plane figure formed by removing a parallelogram from a corner of a larger parallelogram. This is a particular case of the Pythagorean gnomon: a basic unit from which a number pattern can be generated, by adjoining it repeatedly to obtain ever larger figures. This is described in figurate numbers, in which squares of numbers are generated from the gnomon of an odd number.
