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
Equilateral pentagon formula_8 is the sum of its three components, and the angle formula_9 is the sum of its two components. A cyclic pentagon is equiangular if and only if it has equal sides and thus is regular. Likewise, a tangential pentagon is equilateral if and only if it has equal angles and thus is regular. The equilateral pentagon as a function of two variables can be plotted in the two-dimensional plane. Each pair of values (α, β) maps to a single point of the plane and also maps to a single pentagon. The periodicity of the values of α and β