Pyramid side calculator

In geometry, a side can be defined as a line connecting two vertices of a figure or two-dimensional figure. Our online calculator will help you find the side, edge of more than 11 shapes.

Pyramid — is a polyhedron, one of whose faces (called the base) is an arbitrary polygon, and the remaining faces (called side faces) are triangles that have a common vertex. According to the number of base angles, triangular (tetrahedron), quadrangular pyramids are distinguished, etc. A pyramid is a specific case of a cone.

The height of the regular pyramid falls exactly at the center of the inscribed and circumscribed circles for a given polygon. Therefore, in such a pyramid, appears two right triangles in the inner space, one of them connects the height with the apothem through the radius of the inscribed circle, and the second connects the height with the side edge with the radius of the circumscribed circle. Thus, in order to find the lateral edge of the pyramid, you only need to know the side of the base, the total number of sides of the same polygon and the height.