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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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