There are 100 distinct hexagons!

(And, in case you are curious, 20 triangles, 57 quadrilaterals, 60 pentagons, 96 heptagons, 48 octagons, 36 nonagons, 18 decagons, no undecagons, and seven dodecagons, for a total of 442 connected nondegenerate polygons in the figure.)

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There are 100 distinct hexagons!

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Last modified: Monday June 12, 2000.