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Regular hendecagon
Regular hendecagon
Edges and vertices 11
Schläfli symbols {11}
Coxeter–Dynkin diagrams CDW ringCDW 11CDW dot
Symmetry group Dihedral (D11)
Area
(with = edge length)
Internal angle
(degrees)
180°×(1-2/11)
=147°.27

In geometry, a hendecagon (also undecagon[1]) is an 11-sided polygon. The name "undecagon" is often seen as incorrect, but the matter is up for debate. The Greek prefix 'hen', is preferable to the Latin 'uni' or 'un'.[2] A regular hendecagon has internal angles of 147.27 degrees. The area of a regular hendecagon with side length is given by

A regular hendecagon is not constructible with compass and straightedge.

Use in coinage[]

The Canadian dollar coin, the loonie, is patterned on a regular hendecagonal prism, as is the Indian two-rupee coin.

It was also patterned on the Susan B. Anthony dollar of the United States from 1979-1981 and again in 1999.

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References[]

Related shapes[]

The hendecagon shares the same set of 11 vertices with four regular hendecagrams, {11/2}, {11/3}, {11/4}, {11/5}.

Petrie polygons[]

The regular hendecagon is the Petrie polygon for 10-dimensional uniform polytopes of the simplex family, projected in a skew orthogonal projection.[1][2]


10-simplex t0
10-simplex
10-simplex t1
Rectified 10-simplex
10-simplex t2
Birectified 10-simplex
10-simplex t3
Trirectified 10-simplex
10-simplex t4
Quadrirectified 10-simplex

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  1. Coxeter, H. S. M. Petrie Polygons. Regular Polytopes, 3rd ed. New York: Dover, 1973. (sec 2.6 Petrie Polygons pp. 24–25)
  2. Humphreys, James E. (1992), Reflection Groups and Coxeter Groups, Cambridge University Press, pp. 80 (Section 3.16, Coxeter Elements, table 2, Coxeter number for An is n+1), ISBN 978-0-521-43613-7, http://books.google.com/?id=ODfjmOeNLMUC 
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