Grab a pen and draw a figure. Follow a few rules: keep your lines straight, don’t pick up your pen, don’t cross the lines, and finish at the spot where you started. You’ll have a polygon.
The biggest hexagon is 3.92% bigger than the regular hexagon. MossinghoffEach of these two hexagons has the same diameter, since the greatest distance between any two points is the same in each figure.
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