On Feb 19, 2009, at 7:40 AM, keith_w wrote:
Bob W wrote:
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
C'mon, Bob. You're putting me on, right? Or making jokes.
An oblong is a squashed circle.
keith
You're thinking of an "oval." Bob, as usual, is correct. As is JCO.
Paul
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