A thousand, though, is evidently right out. It is seemingly impossible to find a picture of a regular chiliagon on the web. I suspect it would be more or less indistinguishable from a picture of a circle (interior angle of 179.64 degrees, after all).
Christophe Peacocke seems to think it's plausible to suppose that the reason one's imaginations of a chiliagon and of a 999-gon are indistinguishable is that the experiences of seeing a chiliagon and of seeing a 999-gon are indistinguishable. The latter statement might be the case but my mental image of a chiliagon (such as it is) has discernible sides, which is not the case with circles. (NTM I've never actually seen a chiliagon, knowingly anyway, despite efforts, though I'm not sure if that's supposed to matter.)
i heart icosikaihenagons
Posted by: michael | December 08, 2005 at 10:47 PM
my mental image of a chiliagon is delicious
Posted by: tammy | December 08, 2005 at 10:59 PM
I imagined a Japanese man in an ill-fitting monster suit shaped like a pepper
Posted by: dave zacuto | December 09, 2005 at 11:44 PM
It occurs to me on rereading that your title is a little misleading. I do not suppose you could find a one- or two-sided regular polygon online.
Posted by: Jeremy Osner | December 17, 2005 at 07:18 PM
The title is misleading in that its being the title suggests that it has something to do with the post.
Posted by: ben wolfson | December 18, 2005 at 01:06 AM