Still, strictly speaking a square is indeed a rectangle. For all intend and purposes, it is confusing to talk about a rectangle when it is also a square. But well... ;)
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:56 AM, keith_w <keit...@dslextreme.com> wrote: > Larry Colen wrote: >> >> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 09:50:16PM -0500, JC OConnell wrote: >> # Whiz? In what class?, remedial school? >> # # a square IS a rectangle. a square photo format is still a rectangular >> # format. >> # its just a rectangle with all four sides equal length. > >> 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 > > keith whaley > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- Thibault Massart aka Thibouille ---------------------- Photo: K10D,Z1,SuperA,KX,MX, P30t and KR-10x ;) ... Thinkpad: X23+UB,X60+UB Programing: D7 user (trying out D2007) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
