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Interior Angle


InteriorAngle

An interior angle of a polygon is the angle inside the polygon between two adjacent sides at a polygon vertex. For a convex polygon with n sides, the sum of the interior angles is

 sum_(i=1)^ntheta_i=(n-2)pi.

Consequently, every interior angle of a regular polygon is

 theta=(n-2)/npi.

At each vertex of a convex polygon, the interior angle and the exterior angle formed by extending an adjacent side are supplementary angles. A second convention defines the exterior angle as the reflex angle outside the polygon; see exterior angle.


See also

Alternate Interior Angles, Angle, Exterior Angle, Polygon, Polygon Vertex, Regular Polygon, Vertex Angle

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References

Kirk, D. "Angles." §10.2 in Contemporary Mathematics. Houston, TX: OpenStax, 2023. https://openstax.org/books/contemporary-mathematics/pages/10-2-angles.Zwillinger, D. (Ed.). CRC Standard Mathematical Tables and Formulae. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, p. 270, 1995.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Interior Angle." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/InteriorAngle.html

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