What if the pentagonal prism net is on grid paper? On the website you reccomended, I looked at the formula and there were these letters and i have know idea what they are, wwell what do they stand for?

Question

Here are the letters or gorups of letters:
ans
nsh
a
s
as

Answer 1

The single letters are shown on the diagrams.

The double and triple letters mean to multiply the elements together.

Answer 2

but what fo they stand for, the letters have to mean something?

Answer 3

a, s, and h are clearly marked on the diagram as to what they represent.

Many of these are cylinders (even the cube) so that the volume is calculated from the base area x height.