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Real life examples of heptagons and pentagons?

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The headquarters of the United States Department of Defense is in the shape of a Pentagon, hence its colloquial name, "the Pentagon." Heptagons are harder to find; the British fifty-pence coin is a heptagon, and some cookie tins and pill boxes and whatnot are heptagonal.
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