Chiliagon facts for kids
A chiliagon or 1000-gon is a shape with 1000 sides and 1000 corners. Imagine a shape with so many sides that it looks almost exactly like a Circle. That's a chiliagon!
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What is a Chiliagon?
A chiliagon is a type of polygon. Polygons are flat shapes made of straight lines. Each line is called a side, and where two sides meet is called a corner or vertex. A chiliagon is special because it has exactly 1000 sides and 1000 corners.
Regular Chiliagons
A regular chiliagon is a very special kind of chiliagon. In a regular chiliagon, all 1000 sides are exactly the same length. Also, all 1000 corners are exactly the same size. Because it has so many sides, a regular chiliagon looks almost perfectly round, like a circle. It's very hard to tell the difference just by looking at it!
How Big is a Chiliagon?
The amount of space a regular chiliagon takes up is called its area. You can figure out the area of a regular chiliagon if you know the length of one of its sides. The longer the sides, the bigger the chiliagon's area will be.
Related Shapes
Images for kids
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A whole regular chiliagon is not visually discernible from a circle. The lower section is a portion of a regular chiliagon, 200 times as large as the smaller one, with the vertices highlighted.
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The symmetries of a regular chiliagon.
See also
In Spanish: Chiliágono para niños
