Pentagon Pentagon In geometry, a pentagon (from the Greek πέντε "pente" and γωνία "gonia", meaning "five" and "angle") is any five-sided polygon or 5-gon. The sum of the internal angles in a simple pentagon is 540°. A pentagon may be simple or self-intersecting. A self-intersecting "regular pentagon" (or "star pentagon") is called a pentagram. A "regular pentagon" has Schläfli symbol {5} and interior angles are 108°. A "regular pentagon" has five lines of reflectional symmetry, and rotational symmetry of order 5 (through 72°, 144°, 216° and 288°). The diagonals of a convex regular pentagon are in the golden ratio to its
The Pentagon Wars The Pentagon Wars The Pentagon Wars is a 1998 comedy film from HBO, directed by Richard Benjamin and based on the book "The Pentagon Wars: Reformers Challenge the Old Guard" by Colonel James G. Burton, USAF (retired). Major General Partridge (Kelsey Grammer) is in charge of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle project, that has been in development for seventeen years at a cost of $14 billion. In an effort to curtail excessive spending by The Pentagon, Congress appoints an outsider, USAF Lieutenant Colonel James Burton (Cary Elwes) to observe the testing of several new weapons in development, including the Bradley. Burton