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
sides, the sum of the interior angles is
Consequently, every interior angle of a regular polygon
is
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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