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Posted by: prospartan7
Also, I just realized this. Isn't a seven-sided figure a heptagon, not a septagon?
It could be called a heptagon, I suppose, but septagon works as well. Septa and Hepta are both prefixes for seven. You'll see hepta more often in naming of polygons or in chemistry (molecules with non-polar covalent bonds, I believe) and you'll see septa more with numbers. IE: million, billion, trillion, quadrillion, quintillion, sextillion, septillion...
Oh, and the Septagon figure isn't really a seven sided figure. It has seven columns coming out of it, but it really has 21 sides.
Sept is also the French word for seven.