Hexagon partitioned into six equilateral triangles. Like squares and equilateral triangles, regular hexagons fit together without any gaps to "tile the plane" (three hexagons meeting at every vertex), and so are useful for constructing tessellations. The cells of a beehive honeycomb are hexagonal for this reason and because the shape makes efficient use of space and building materials. The Voronoi diagram of a regular triangular lattice is the honeycomb tessellation of hexagons. It is not usually considered a triambus, although it is equilateral. The maximal diameter (which corresponds to the long diagonal of the hexagon), "D", is twice the maximal 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"