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octagram
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Also known as 8-gram, 8 pointed star, eight pointed star

In geometry, an octagram is an eight-angled star polygon.

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Subclass of
regular polytope
Followed by
enneagram
Follows
heptagram
Image
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has facet polytope
edge
Commons category
Octagrams
Schläfli symbol
3{8}
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Encyclopedic overview

9 sections
Contents
  • Detail
  • Variations
  • As a quasitruncated square
  • Star polygon compounds
  • Other presentations of an octagonal star
  • Other uses
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

In geometry, an octagram is an eight-angled star polygon.

The name octagram combine a Greek numeral prefix, octa-, with the Greek suffix -gram. The -gram suffix derives from γραμμή (grammḗ) meaning "line".

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “octagram” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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