Hexagon Hexagon In geometry, a hexagon (from Greek ἕξ "hex", "six" and γωνία, "gonía", "corner, angle") is a six-sided polygon or 6-gon. The total of the internal angles of any simple (non-self-intersecting) hexagon is 720°. A "regular hexagon" has Schläfli symbol {1} and can also be constructed as a truncated equilateral triangle, t{3}, which alternates two types of edges. A regular hexagon is defined as a hexagon that is both equilateral and equiangular. It is bicentric, meaning that it is both cyclic (has a circumscribed circle) and tangential (has an inscribed circle). The common length of the sides equals the radius
Pappus's hexagon theorem Pappus's hexagon theorem In mathematics, Pappus's hexagon theorem (attributed to Pappus of Alexandria) states that given one set of collinear points "A", "B", "C", and another set of collinear points "a", "b", "c", then the intersection points "X", "Y", "Z" of line pairs "Ab" and "aB", "Ac" and "aC", "Bc" and "bC" are collinear, lying on the "Pappus line". These three points are the points of intersection of the "opposite" sides of the hexagon "AbCaBc". It holds in a projective plane over any field, but fails for projective planes over any noncommutative division ring. Projective planes in which the "theorem"