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Edited by Richard Walker, Tuesday 28 July 2026 at 00:12

A convex polygon is one that has no reentrant corners, or to put it differently, has no interior angles greater than 180 postfix degree . Figure 1 below is convex; Figure 2 is not.

An acute angle is one that is less than a tight angle, that is, less than 90 postfix degree .

Prove that a convex polygon with n greater than or equals three sides can never have more than three acute angles and that for any n greater than or equals three it is possible to construct a polygon with exactly three acute angles.

For the proof, see the Comments.

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