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Re: The modalities of using Bing Chat AI later Copilot to produce pictures

After all, a triangle is a rectangle with one side of zero length.

I think you mean a quadrilateral. A rectangle has four 90 degree angles. A quadrilateral could have two 180 degree angles and two zero degree angles. A triangle's angles always add up to 180 degrees, so it can have two right angles separated by a zero length side, and would appear like this: ______________________*

It would be difficult to distinguish it from a triangle with one angle of 180 degrees, and two of zero degrees. However, the former would, of course definitely be an isosceles triangle while the latter may not.

*Actually this is the quadrilateral I've described, but I bet you didn't notice!

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Re: The modalities of using Bing Chat AI later Copilot to produce pictures

GB wrote:

After all, a triangle is a rectangle with one side of zero length.

I think you mean a quadrilateral.

That is indeed what I meant, Geoff, which is why I corrected myself while addressing William’s assertion about the triangle in question being isosceles.

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A rectangle has four 90 degree angles. A quadrilateral could have two 180 degree angles and two zero degree angles. A triangle's angles always add up to 180 degrees, so it can have two right angles separated by a zero length side, and would appear like this: ______________________*

It would be difficult to distinguish it from a triangle with one angle of 180 degrees, and two of zero degrees. However, the former would, of course definitely be an isosceles triangle while the latter may not.

*Actually this is the quadrilateral I've described, but I bet you didn't notice!

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