Just for a laugh
- Thread starter PhilH
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I felt compelled to fact check this, and I'm afraid you're wrong:
"Square
Regular quadrilateral
In geometry, a square is a regular quadrilateral, which means that it has four straight sides of equal length and four equal angles. Squares are special cases of rectangles, which have four equal angles, and of rhombuses, which have four equal sides. As with all rectangles, a square's angles are right angles, making adjacent sides perpendicular. Wikipedia"
Which is a shame, as I was about to open FreeCAD to see if I could draw it, then try the same in Inkscape, as drawing arcs of a set length is something useful I haven't tried yet
Osgood
Western Thunderer
"Behold a Square"
Ah, but the get-out is that the square in the eye of the beholder:
a person who sees or observes someone or something.
"the building and landscape can elicit imaginative responses from the beholder"
Bill Campbell
Western Thunderer
Unfortunately this shape has only 2 right angles - the other 2 are 270 degrees!
Regards.
Rob R
Western Thunderer
The arcs are perpendicular to the straights at the point of contact (as denoted by the little grey squares right in the corners if you zoom in).
Wasn't me that drew it- blatently stolen from the interweb.
SimonT
Western Thunderer
God bless Wikipedia. Based on a hugh amount of mathmatics when I was young and foolish, a square is a special case of a parallelogram which all have included angles that add up to 360 degrees. The shape in the cartoon has included angles that add up to 720 degrees. However, it's still a good joke.
PS. I drew it in CAD and can only measure the 270 degree angle at the smaller arc and not the 90. No idea what that signifies!
PS. I drew it in CAD and can only measure the 270 degree angle at the smaller arc and not the 90. No idea what that signifies!
timbowales
Western Thunderer
Where's the "thumbs down" emoji?
timbowales
Western Thunderer
"old age" - they haven't even reached puberty yet!!!!!
Jordan or Plymouth Mad
Mid-Western Thunderer
simond
Western Thunderer
Given that HST is arguably a DMU, and they’re going to be fifty next year…
daifly
Western Thunderer
I note that you favour the Oxford comma before 'and'. It is unnecessary in this example.
Dave