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Consider a regular $n$-gon with all diagonals drawn. Here is an example with $n=10$.

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What is the distribution of the areas of the regions, as $n\to\infty$ ?

That is, if we write down each region's area, how are those numbers distributed? What does the density function look like?

The number of regions is approximately $\dfrac{1}{24}n^4$ for large $n$. Here is an exact formula for the number of regions.

Context: I've been thinking about regular $n$-gons with connected vertices, and this question naturally arose.

UPDATE

I found a nice geogebra applet that allows you to play with various regular polygons with all diagonals drawn.

I would not be surprised if the answer to my question is currently unknown, because the following related question, which seems simpler than my question, is an open question: If a regular n-gon has all its diagonal drawn, does there exist a bound on the maximum number of sides of the sub-polygons thus formed (excluding the central sub-polygon when n is odd)?

UPDATE2

This question has inspired another question: Regular polygon of radius $1$ with diagonals: mysterious ring of radius $1/e$?

Dan
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