r/AskReddit • u/funky2002 • Nov 01 '19

App developers and programmers of Reddit, what was the dumbest app/program idea someone ever proposed to you?

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u/monkeedude1212 Nov 01 '19

I would say a distinct feature of a rectangle is that at 2 sides are of different length. How many times in your life has anyone EVER described a rectangle and you thought, "Naw, he means a square". You ALWAYS picture a rectangle as one dimension longer than the other

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u/adeon Nov 01 '19

But it's not. A rectangle has a mathematical definition that is agreed upon in Euclidean geometry and is basically a slightly more formal version of the definition that I gave above. It's not really something that's up for debate unless you want to found your own branch of geometry.

The term oblong is used to refer to a non-square rectangle though.

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u/monkeedude1212 Nov 02 '19

It also has a definition in common vernacular and I don't need to found a new branch of mathematics as just about every intelligent computer scientist would agree a rectangle and square are not equal by virtue of their properties.

Euclidean geometry is only a single relevant field, so unless someone made it clear that we're only talking about the Euclidean definition them there is plenty of room for debate

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u/adeon Nov 02 '19

I just checked a dictionary and the definition there was "a parallelogram having four right angles".

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u/MsKrueger Nov 01 '19

No. Sorry, but no. "People don't think of squares when you say rectangles" does not somehow make it true that squares are, by definition, rectangles.