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>Sorry pal, but this won't work without JavaScript. You are probably doing that for privacy reasons, and I do respect that. You can download this website, inspect the source code, and run it locally. Or, you can whitelist it in your browser/script blocker. I don't have any third-party trackers on this website, and the code is open-sourced, so there's not much to be worried about.
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My 5-year-old knows that squares are a type of rectangle. Her kindergarten teacher corrected her when she said this during a shapes lesson and told her that rectangles always have two sides longer than the other. We haven't bothered to correct the teacher, but used it as a lesson to say that even intelligent people aren't always correct about everything. (She also had a preschool teacher that told her that blood is b…
There's the technical definition where rectangle is a genus of the species square, and there's the colloquial definition - if there are two boxes and one is a cube and the other is elongated, most people will ask for "the rectangular" one and not the "non square" one. And an important part of life is learning when to pick your battles.
Wrong battle, I know, but to nitpick the species is more likely quadrilateral.
Cool project! Just a quickie, but might be worth changing "nitty gritty" to "the details". Depending on the etymology you look at, the term could be considered offensive (so probably not worth the risk!).
"It has been suggested that the word originally referred to the debris remaining in the holds of slave ships after the slaves had been disembarked, but there is no evidence of such use before the 20th century when slavery was prevalent." -- Wiktionary
I do not think we should be deprecating colorful words because someone invented a fake etymology for them. Nor, for that matter, because someone somewhere might unreasonably take offense.
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There's the technical definition where rectangle is a genus of the species square, and there's the colloquial definition - if there are two boxes and one is a cube and the other is elongated, most people will ask for "the rectangular" one and not the "non square" one. And an important part of life is learning when to pick your battles.
>where rectangle is a genus of the species square Wrong battle, I know, but to nitpick the species is more likely quadrilateral.
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>where rectangle is a genus of the species square Wrong battle, I know, but to nitpick the species is more likely quadrilateral.
Quadrilateral would be the family, and rectangle the genus, square the species. Or you could promote quadrilateral to order and designate parallelogram the family.
It bugs out when you have it open and the day changes