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    High School What Is the Formula for Connecting Dots in a Circle?

    Wow, thank you all so much for the feedback! I really appreciate it! We never counted the segments only the lines, but that's interesting as well :) can't wait to read up more on this all! Thanks again, Kim
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    High School What Is the Formula for Connecting Dots in a Circle?

    Yes exactly! Any idea what that is called? Thanks for the reply :) In school I had come up with (x²-x)/2, but same thing. My teacher had told me that the formula they found was not as simplified as mine but never showed it to us... I still find it amazing this simple equation wasn't...
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    High School What Is the Formula for Connecting Dots in a Circle?

    Hello all, I feel a bit out of my league here :) if I've posted in the wrong section I'm so sorry... I am looking for help finding an equation or formula. When I was in school years ago (before internet and search engines) one of the lessons in geometry was drawing a certain number of dots...