Talk:Polygon/Comments

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I am not sure of this, but I believe that the picture at the top of this article (labeled: "An assortment of polygons") contains an error. The figure on the far right is not technically a polygon, since "A polygon is a closed figure made by joining line segments, where each line segment intersects exactly two others.", as defined by:

http://www.mathleague.com/help/geometry/polygons.htm#polygon (and also defined in my daughter's first grade textbook)

The figure in the right of the picture contains lines that cross each other several times.

Perhaps the definition of a polygon (at the top of the article) also needs to be modified to include this restriction?

Keyclick (talk) 17:34, 2 May 2008 (UTC)