Talk:dihectagon

RFV discussion: August 2023

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dihectagon

We already have the only good citation. This appears in may word lists, though Pious Eterino (talk) 19:58, 8 August 2023 (UTC)

The quote we have looks copy-pasted, as if we got it from a Google Preview page such as this and didn't check the context. With most words that's okay, but in this case I'm not so sure. For one thing, it looks like the Google scan ignored a line break (A dihectagon looks very similar to a circle It looks very similar to a circle). But more important, we're lacking the context ... for all we know, the author says further up the page that he was making the word up on the spot, and we can't see that without access to the book or at least a full page view of it. That said, I'm a bit confused, since from what I know Google Preview specifically denies the reader the ability to use copy-paste, so maybe the person who added it was using some sort of automated tool. —Soap— 11:07, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

@Soap I was able to get the full page: [1]. It seems that the sentence "It looks very similar to a circle" was supposed to appear in the paragraph above Figure 3.57 and refer to Figure 3.56, a drawing of an icosagon on the previous page. This, that and the other (talk) 11:49, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

Thanks. That looks like a perfectly good cite to me, but it seems it may not have caught on in academic circles. There are at least three other terms floating around, dihectogon, dictogon, and diacosiagon, the last of which comes directly from ancient Gk διακόσια (diakósia, “200”). —Soap— 13:04, 9 August 2023 (UTC)

cited. Kiwima (talk) 00:05, 10 August 2023 (UTC)

• RFV passed Pious Eterino (talk) 06:44, 19 August 2023 (UTC)