Volume
The volume of a bipyramid is where B is the area of the base and h the height from the base to the apex. This works for any location of the apex, provided that h is measured as the perpendicular distance from the plane which contains the base.
The volume of a bipyramid whose base is a regular n-sided polygon with side length s and whose height is h is therefore:
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