A basketball net is an icositetragon

Someone made this really cool graphic of a basketball net, as viewed from above. I love how the net forms these shapes and patterns. Especially that shape on the very inside of the pattern. That would be the bottom part of the net. Notice how the bottom part of a basketball net has 24 sides. A shape with 24 sides is called an icositetragon. Icositetragon is a long confusing word. Let’s break it down to it’s Greek components icosi- = twentyFrom Greek eíkosi (εἴκοσι), meaning “20.” tetra- = fourFrom Greek téttares / tetra (τέσσαρες / τετρα), meaning “4.” -gon = angleFrom Greek gōnía (γωνία), meaning “angle” or “corner.” Therefore, icosi + tetra + gon = “twenty-four angles” In this particular case, since the sides go inward, this is a star icositetragon. Let’s isolate the star icositetragon. If you stare at the shape enough, it looks like it’s made of three overlapping squares. To help you see the three squares, let’s put three squares on top. That looks pretty cool! Like some sort of…