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Three types of polygons Figure 2: The points of a plane that are not on a polygon are separated by the polygon into two regions, the “inside” and the “outside.” Figure 1: A polygon whose vertices are lattice points. Platonic solids
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Three types of polygons
Figure 2: The points of a plane that are not on a polygon are separated by the polygon into two regions, the “inside” and the “outside.”
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Italian-born physicist Dr. Enrico Fermi draws a diagram at a blackboard with mathematical equations. circa 1950.
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