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The is part of the
wasysym-package.
This can be printed in
different sizes, for example: \Huge\hexagon. Especially for greater hexagons I wrote a new command \myHexagon{radian}, which draws with the package PSTricks hexagons in any size. The parameter is the radius of the surrounding circle. \myHexagon{2.5cm} gives a hexagon with diameter of 6cm of the surrounding circle: The hexagon is like a single character with the same baseline. The latex preamble looks like: \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{pstricks} \newlength{\myL} \newcommand\myHexagon[1]{% \setlength{\myL}{#1} \psset{unit=1.0} \begin{pspicture}(-0.9511\myL,-0.8090\myL)(0.9511\myL,\myL) \psline[linewidth=1pt](0.5\myL,-0.866\myL)(-0.5\myL,-0.866\myL)(-\myL,0)(-0.5\myL,0.866\myL)% (0.5\myL,0.866\myL)(\myL,0)(0.5\myL,-0.866\myL) \end{pspicture}% }It draws only one hexaagon as a polygon in any valid unit, like
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