Hendecagon Hendecagon In geometry, a hendecagon (also undecagon or endecagon) or 11-gon is an eleven-sided polygon. (The name "hendecagon", from Greek "hendeka" "eleven" and "gon–" "corner", is often preferred to the hybrid "undecagon", whose first part is formed from Latin "undecim" "eleven".) A "regular hendecagon" is represented by Schläfli symbol {11}. A regular hendecagon has internal angles of 147.27 degrees (=147 formula_1 degrees). The area of a regular hendecagon with side length "a" is given by As 11 is not a Fermat prime, the regular hendecagon is not constructible with compass and straightedge. Because 11 is not a Pierpont prime, construction
How Many Miles to Babylon? In the 1824 edition of "The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia" there's a description of the rhyme and the game, giving the distance as "six, seven or a lang eight". The rhyme was originally accompanied by a singing game in which two lines face each other, with one player in the middle. At the end of the rhyme the players have to cross the space and any caught help the original player in the middle catch the others. The game seems to have fallen out of use in the twentieth century. In literature In film In music How Many Miles to Babylon?