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unusual facts about Rectangle


Gusset plate

Gusset plates are usually square or rectangular, but can be triangular or made into a customized shape to fit the joint.


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A Burning Hot Summer

The film was the second collaboration between director Philippe Garrel and the French production company Rectangle Productions.

Argument principle

Numerical tests of the Riemann hypothesis use this technique to get an upper bound for the number of zeros of Bridgehampton Sports Car Races

The course ran counterclockwise on an approximately 3-mile (4.8-km) rectangle, beginning on Montauk Highway, then turning left onto Halsey Lane, left onto Pauls Lane, left onto Ocean Boulevard, and left back onto Montauk Highway.

Buckler

The second major form is a corrugated rectangle as suggested by Achille Marozzo in his Opera Nova.

Computerra

The last issue cover lacks a usual cover image, with only the black rectangle instead and the words roughly translatable as "now you can shut down your computerra", as a pun on the shutdown image of Windows 95.

Decomino

This makes it trivial to prove that the complete set of decominoes cannot be packed into a rectangle, and that not all decominoes can be tiled.

Enfidha

Enfidaville became the chief settlement on the Enfida estate, a property of over 300,000 acres (1,200 km²) in the Sahel district of Tunisia, forming a rectangle between the towns of Hammamet, Sousse (Susa), Kairawan and Zaghwan.

Golden Gate

Configured as a rectangle, it is similar in shape but 174 acres (0.7 km², 0.27 mi²) larger than Central Park in New York, to which it is often compared.

Mathematics and architecture

Jay Hambidge believed that the golden rectangle was the ratio used by Attic Greek architects in the design of the Parthenon and other ancient Greek buildings, as well as sculptures, paintings, and vases.

Menu blinking

Only in Classic Mac OSes there have been preferences for Menu Blinking where you can control how many times the selection rectangle blinks.

Octomino

This makes it trivial to prove that the complete set of octominoes cannot be packed into a rectangle, and that not all octominoes can be tiled.

Pavlovce nad Uhom

The building was built in Empire style with rectangle alike ground plan with dimensions of 40x14 meters.

Southorn Playground

The Wan Chai District Council and the British Council invited English designer Thomas Heatherwick and urban renewal specialist Fred Manson to improve the amenity, which is now a concrete rectangle with games courts painted on.

Swiss playing cards

In this design, a central rectangle on the aces of Schellen and Schilten were used for the text "Schaffhausen & Hasle" (the location of the presses) and "Spielkartenfabrik", respectively.

Thermally conductive pad

In computing and electronics, thermal pads (also called thermally conductive pad or thermal interface pad) are a pre-formed square or rectangle of solid material (often paraffin wax or silicone based) commonly found on the underside of heatsinks to aid the conduction of heat away from the component being cooled (such as a CPU or another chip) and into the heatsink (usually made from aluminium or copper).


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