Equilateral pentagon and no sides intersecting others. A common example of this type of pentagon is the regular pentagon. Equilateral pentagon In geometry an equilateral pentagon is a polygon with five sides of equal length. Its five internal angles, in turn, can take a range of sets of values, thus permitting it to form a family of pentagons. The requirement is that all angles must add up to 540 degrees and must be between 0 and 360 degrees but not equal to 180 degrees. In contrast, the regular pentagon is unique, because it is equilateral and moreover it is equiangular (its five
Pentagon if one joins the non-adjacent corners (drawing the diagonals of the pentagon), one obtains a pentagram, with a smaller regular pentagon in the center. Or if one extends the sides until the non-adjacent sides meet, one obtains a larger pentagram. The accuracy of this method depends on the accuracy of the protractor used to measure the angles. The "regular pentagon" has Dih symmetry, order 10. Since 5 is a prime number there is one subgroup with dihedral symmetry: Dih, and 2 cyclic group symmetries: Z, and Z. These 4 symmetries can be seen in 4 distinct symmetries on the pentagon.