Math Photo: Surprising Heptagon
It took several hundred encounters with this park bench before I realized it was a heptagon! I don’t see many regular, seven-sided figures in my experience, which made this a surprising discovery. I wonder what prompted this design choice.
Like most real-world instances of perfect geometric objects, it doesn’t exactly measure up. But what’s a few degrees between n-gons?
3 Comments
Theron Hitchman · February 8, 2015 at 12:28 pm
that is unusual, and cool!
Bon Crowder (@mathfour) · February 8, 2015 at 3:31 pm
My sister is an interior designer and partner at an architect firm. I’ll have to share this with her and ask if she’s ever seen (or designed) something like this.
It might inspire her to do more like it!
Thanks for sharing!
amy zimmer · January 10, 2016 at 11:13 pm
Very cool! Thanks for letting us know about it! AZ