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

To find the volume of a regular polygon circumscribed around a pyramid in ruby, we need to use some basic geometry formulas.

First, we need to determine the total surface area of the pyramid. We can then use that to find the volume of the pyramid. Finally, we can use the number of sides of the polygon to come up with the formula to calculate the volume of the polygon circumscribing the pyramid.

Let's assume that the height of the pyramid is 'h', the side length of the polygon is 's', and the number of sides of the polygon is 'n'.

main.rb
# Calculate the total surface area of the pyramid
sa_base = n * s * s / (4 * Math.tan(Math::PI / n))
sa_face = n * s * Math.sqrt(h * h + (s / (2 * Math.tan(Math::PI / n)))**2) / 2
sa_total = sa_base + sa_face
# Calculate the volume of the pyramid
volume_pyramid = sa_base * h / 3
# Calculate the volume of the polygon circumscribed around the pyramid
volume_polygon = sa_total * h / 3
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We can create a method that takes in the pyramid's height, side length, and number of sides as arguments and returns the volume of the polygon circumscribing the pyramid:

main.rb
def volume_of_polygon_circumscribing_pyramid(height, side_length, num_sides)
  sa_base = num_sides * side_length * side_length / (4 * Math.tan(Math::PI / num_sides))
  sa_face = num_sides * side_length * Math.sqrt(height * height + (side_length / (2 * Math.tan(Math::PI / num_sides)))**2) / 2
  sa_total = sa_base + sa_face
  volume_pyramid = sa_base * height / 3
  volume_polygon = sa_total * height / 3
  return volume_polygon
end
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Then we can call the method with the appropriate arguments to calculate the volume of a regular polygon circumscribed around a pyramid.

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