> > Oh, c'mon now. Next thing you'll be telling us that a square is a > > rhombus, or a trapezoid. > > While all 4 corners of both a square and a rectangle must be > 90 degrees, the > commonly accepted (preferred) definition states that a > rectangle has adjacent > sides of UNequal length. > > I think it's really stretching it to call a square a > rectangle, since a square's > sides MUST be of equal length. > > I'm in favor of differentiating the two. > I mean, if I was asked... :-D >
They must teach you some strange things in your schools. JCO is quite correct - at least, our schools taught us that a rectangle is a quadrilateral with 4 right angles, so a square is a rectangle. A rectangle with unequal sides is an oblong. Bob -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
