> > > 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 >
...with the corners kicked out. And, of course, a circle is an ellipse, so by working backwards we have in fact squared the circle. 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.
