Squares and other names


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Posted by John M. Nichols on February 18, 2007 at 18:37:05 from 74.192.10.35 user Mcneacail.

In Reply to: Re: Dick question posted by John M. Nichols on February 18, 2007 at 15:44:15:

a square is quadgon, where all the sides are at 90 degrees

quad from the Latin
gon - a figure with all sides equal

Hence a sqaure is a special case of a gon with a special name

a rectangle is not a gon.

That answers the specific question asked in an earlier post.

Why do we look for similiarites in things, such as the gon's, is the same question asked in PP:

The children didn't know what signs to look for for the copper so they looked everywhere - SH knew what to look for, but was to slow.

It has perplexed science for 10,000 years as to which is the better method and I can not complain as I have used both. So aare far as I am concerned there is every likilhood in all those hours AR did not document of these children's lives that they asked their parents about geometry. Is there not?

JMN




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