Area of a Regular Polygon


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Added by Tobias Varland on July 10, 2002 at 11:48:53:

The area of a regular polygon, when all one knows is the length of one side and the number of sides, is:

0.25 * (lengthSide^2) * numSides *
tan[ ( pi * ( numSides - 2 ) ) / ( 2 * numsides ) ]