Talk:120-gon

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Requested move 26 October 2015[edit]

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The result of the move request was: moved to 120-gon by Tomruen. Closing as it doesn't appear to have been objected to, but it is usually better to leave the discussion for an uninvolved closer. Jenks24 (talk) 05:21, 4 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Dodecacontagon → hecatonicosagon – This is the polygon's correct name. The current title is analogous to calling the number 120 in English "twelve-ty". Georgia guy (talk) 17:56, 26 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Does Johnson (the source) gives both forms of the 120 prefix (dodecaconta- and hecatonicosa-)? It would appear to be so given how it cites both "dodecacontachoron" and "hecatonicosachoron" at Uniform 4-polytope#The H4 family. Neither is actually correct ancient Greek, which IIRC would be εἴκοσι καὶ ἐκατὀν ("twenty-and-a-hundred"; I may have messed up the diacritics). Double sharp (talk) 02:48, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

(I suspect that the most common name for this polygon would simply be 120-gon, but I felt that since there had been attestations of a 120 prefix, I ought to use it in the article title.) Double sharp (talk) 03:13, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Johnson is responsible for both prefixes, his opinion shifting to dodecaconta- because it was shorter and easier to say. I'm content to move this article to 120-gon. Tom Ruen (talk) 21:48, 27 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose use the 120-gon alternative instead -- 70.51.44.60 (talk) 04:23, 28 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

I took initiative, since this was a new article, and just changed it to 120-gon. Tom Ruen (talk) 07:53, 28 October 2015 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on this talk page or in a move review. No further edits should be made to this section.

Name[edit]

Double sharp is right. 120 in Ancient Greek is εἴκοσι καὶ ἑκατόν (eíkosi kaì ἑkatón, lit. twenty and hundred), so 120-gon should theoretically be eicosikaihecatagon, but I believe that hecatonicosagon is a more common English name. --Yejianfei (talk) 18:37, 10 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]