It’s the other way. Squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are square.
Rect-angle, rectus-angle, right/proper-angle
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Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 2 weeks agoSquare means “90 degrees”, so rectangles are square. They’re just not “a” square.
It’s the other way. Squares are rectangles, but not all rectangles are square.
Rect-angle, rectus-angle, right/proper-angle
I didn’t say rectangles are squares, I said rectangles are square.
Square can be an adjective. When you say a rectangle is square, you’re saying all four corners are square. If you make a picture frame in the shape of a oblique parallelogram, it’s not square. If you make it in the shape of a rectangle, it’s square. If you make it in the shape of a square, it is both square and a square.
That’s a weird and confusing language if true.
At least in geometry square is a special case of rectangle.
DancingBear@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Square has multiple meanings actually.
Your comment makes you sound square, for example.
ranzispa@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
We square?
ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
We should keep talking about it to square it away