Number of sides of a regular polygon using LCM.

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I think this may be true, it works for all I’ve checked, but I’m not sure why. I stumbled across it when thinking that there must be a relation between the LCM of the interior angle and 180 degrees.

To find the number of sides of a regular polygon with interior angle x.

Odd sided polygon:

LCM(x,180)/x

Even sided polygon;

2*LCM(x,180)/x

Any ideas why, and if it always works?