Is every regular polygon the unit ball for some norm?

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For every regular polygon, is there a norm such that the polygon is it's unit ball centered on 0?

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Since $\|-x\|=\|x\|$, this cetainly fails for odd-gons. -- Hagen von Eitzen

On the other hand, it holds for even number of sides. See Minkowski functional.