正多边形的边心距是正多边形的外置圆圆心（同时也是内切圆圆心）到正多边形某一边的距离。正多边形的边心距都相等，并等于其内切圆的半径。

如果用a表示边心距，s表示边长，p表示多边形的周长，正多边形的面积可以分割成n个小三角形求和，最终结果表示为：

其内切圆的面积可以表示为：

The apothem (sometimes abbreviated as apo) of a regular polygon is a line segment from the center to the midpoint of one of its sides. Equivalently, it is the line drawn from the center of the polygon that is perpendicular to one of its sides. The word "apothem" can also refer to the length of that line segment. Regular polygons are the only polygons that have apothems. Because of this, all the apothems in a polygon will be congruent.