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In geometry, a generalized polygon can be called a polygram, and named specifically by its number of sides, so a regular pentagram, {5/2}, has 5 sides, and the regular hexagram, {6/2} or 2{3} has 6 sides divided into two triangles.

A regular polygram {p/q} can either be in a set of regular polygons (for gcd(p,q)=1, q>1) or in a set of regular polygon compounds (if gcd(p,q)>1).[1]

Regular Star Polygons-en

Regular polygrams {n/d}, with red lines showing constant d, and blue lines showing compound sequences k{n/d}

Etymology

The polygram names combine a numeral prefix, such as penta-, with the Greek suffix -gram (in this case generating the word pentagram). The prefix is normally a Greek cardinal, but synonyms using other prefixes exist. The -gram suffix derives from γραμμῆς (grammos) meaning a line.[2]
Generalized regular polygons
Further information: Regular_polygon § Regular_star_polygons

A regular polygram, as a general regular polygon, is denoted by its Schläfli symbol {p/q}, where p and q are relatively prime (they share no factors) and q ≥ 2. For integers p and q, it can be considered as being constructed by connecting every qth point out of p points regularly spaced in a circular placement.[3][4]

Regular star polygon 5-2.svg
{5/2}
Regular star polygon 7-2.svg
{7/2}
Regular star polygon 7-3.svg
{7/3}
Regular star polygon 8-3.svg
{8/3}
Regular star polygon 9-2.svg
{9/2}
Regular star polygon 9-4.svg
{9/4}
Regular star polygon 10-3.svg
{10/3}...

Regular compound polygons
Further information: List_of_regular_polytopes_and_compounds § Two_dimensions

In other cases where n and m have a common factor, a polygram is interpreted as a lower polygon, {n/k,m/k}, with k = gcd(n,m), and rotated copies are combined as a compound polygon. These figures are called regular compound polygons.
Some regular polygon compounds Triangles... Squares... Pentagons... Pentagrams...

Triangles... Squares... Pentagons... Pentagrams...
Regular star figure 2(3,1).svg
{6/2}=2{3}
Regular star figure 3(3,1).svg
{9/3}=3{3}
Regular star figure 4(3,1).svg
{12/4}=4{3}
Regular star figure 2(4,1).svg
{8/2}=2{4}
Regular star figure 3(4,1).svg
{12/3}=3{4}
Regular star figure 2(5,1).svg
{10/2}=2{5}
Regular star figure 2(5,2).svg
{10/4}=2{5/2}
Regular star figure 3(5,2).svg
{15/6}=3{5/2}

See also

List of regular polytopes and compounds#Stars

References

Weisstein, Eric W. "Polygram". MathWorld.
γραμμή, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, on Perseus
Coxeter, Harold Scott Macdonald (1973). Regular polytopes. Courier Dover Publications. p. 93. ISBN 978-0-486-61480-9.

Weisstein, Eric W. "Polygram". MathWorld.

Cromwell, P.; Polyhedra, CUP, Hbk. 1997, ISBN 0-521-66432-2. Pbk. (1999), ISBN 0-521-66405-5. p. 175
Grünbaum, B. and G.C. Shephard; Tilings and Patterns, New York: W. H. Freeman & Co., (1987), ISBN 0-7167-1193-1.
Grünbaum, B.; Polyhedra with Hollow Faces, Proc of NATO-ASI Conference on Polytopes ... etc. (Toronto 1993), ed T. Bisztriczky et al., Kluwer Academic (1994) pp. 43–70.
John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strass, The Symmetries of Things 2008, ISBN 978-1-56881-220-5 (Chapter 26. pp. 404: Regular star-polytopes Dimension 2)
Robert Lachlan, An Elementary Treatise on Modern Pure Geometry. London: Macmillan, 1893, p. 83 polygrams.
Branko Grünbaum, Metamorphoses of polygons, published in The Lighter Side of Mathematics: Proceedings of the Eugène Strens Memorial Conference on Recreational Mathematics and its History, (1994)

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