Comment on Proof that math is real

• DancingBear@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Square has multiple meanings actually.

  Your comment makes you sound square, for example.

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  • ranzispa@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We square?

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    • ExperimentalGuy@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      We should keep talking about it to square it away

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• takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    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.

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    • takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That’s a weird and confusing language if true.

      At least in geometry square is a special case of rectangle.

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