Hexagon

The hexagon, or hig, is a polygon with 6 sides. A regular hexagon has equal sides and equal angles.

The combining prefix is h-, as in haco.

The regular hexagon is one of the only three regular polygons that can tile the plane, the other two being the equilateral triangle and the square. Its tiling is called the hexagonal tiling.

The hexagon has the rare property that its circumradius equals its edge length. Other notable polytopes that satisfy this property are the cuboctahedron, the tesseract, and the icositetrachoron.

The hexagon and the pentagon are the only regular polygons with exactly one stellation. It is also the polygon with the most sides that does not have a non-compound stellation. The other polygons without non-compound stellations (nor stellations at all) are the triangle and the square.

Naming
The name hexagon is derived from the Ancient Greek ἑξα (6) and γωνία (angle), referring to the number of vertices.

Other names include:


 * hig, Bowers style acronym, short for "hexagon"
 * Truncated Triangle

Vertex coordinates
Coordinates for a hexagon of unit edge length, centered at the origin, are:


 * (±1, 0),
 * (±1/2, ±$\sqrt{3}$/2).

Representations
A regular hexagon can be represented by the following Coxeter diagrams:

(x3x (A2 symmetry, generally a ditrigon)
 * x6o (regular)
 * ho3oh&#zx (A2, generally a triambus)
 * xu ho&#zx (rectangular symmetry)
 * xux&#xt (axial edge-first)
 * ohho&#xt (axial vertex-first)

Ditrigon
A ditrigon is a variant hexagon with triangular symmetry, formed as a truncated triangle. When hexagons appear as faces in higher polytopes, they usually have this symmetry. Its dual is the triambus.

Stellations
The hexagram (compound of two triangles) is the only stellation of the hexagon.