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Is there a special name for the distance from the center of a rectangle to a side? I haven't done geometry in a while, but I thought there was an equivalent of a "radius" for regular polygons.

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    Half-length of a side?2012-04-13

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Maybe the word you want is apothem. But that only applies to squares, not rectangles in general.

Or perhaps you want inradius, although that's usually for triangles.

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    Apothem! I knew it was a vaguely funny-sounding word.2012-04-14