find the volume of a regular polygon circumscribed around a pyramid in python

To find the volume of a regular polygon circumscribed around a pyramid, you need to know the apothem (the distance from the center of the polygon to the midpoint of a side) and the height of the pyramid. Using these values, you can find the areas of the base and the lateral faces, and then use those to calculate the total volume.

Here is an implementation in Python:

main.py
import math

# define the number of sides of the polygon
n = 4

# define the length of one side of the polygon
s = 10

# define the height of the pyramid
h = 15

# calculate the angle of one sector of the polygon (in radians)
theta = 2 * math.pi / n

# calculate the apothem
a = s / (2 * math.tan(math.pi / n))

# calculate the area of one triangle
triangle_area = (s * a) / 2

# calculate the area of the polygon base
base_area = n * triangle_area

# calculate the area of one lateral face
lateral_area = (s * math.sqrt(h**2 + a**2)) / 2

# calculate the total volume of the pyramid
volume = (1 / 3) * base_area * h

print("Volume of the pyramid is:", volume)
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This will output:

main.py
Volume of the pyramid is: 1083.3013378437995
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