From: "Bob W"
> > 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.
... or jerked it anyway.
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