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Tom Poland's avatar

What a revealing history! Thank you. And to think I was a student bored by geometry's parallelograms, rectangles, and trapezoids. What a square I was!

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Elizabeth Poland Shugg's avatar

Haha!! Yes, math can be useful from time to time.

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Tom Poland's avatar

Yes, go figure, said the math-challenged writer.

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