A closed planar quadrilateral with opposite sides of equal lengths
and , and with four right
angles . A square is a degenerate rectangle with .
The area of the rectangle is
(1)
and its polygon diagonals and
are of length
(2)
A rectangle has a circumcircle with circumradius
(3)
but incircle only in the degenerate case of a square .
A number of important topological surfaces can be constructed from the rectangle. Gluing both pairs of opposite edges together with no twists gives a torus ,
gluing two opposite edges together after giving a half-twist gives a Möbius
strip , gluing both pairs of opposite edges together giving one pair a half-twist
gives a Klein bottle , and giving both pairs a half-twist
gives a projective plane (Stewart 1997).
See also Blanche's Dissection ,
Fault-Free Rectangle ,
Golden
Rectangle ,
Incomparable Rectangles ,
Klein Bottle ,
Möbius
Strip ,
Overlapping Rectangles ,
Perfect
Rectangle ,
Projective Plane ,
Rectangle
Tiling ,
Rectellipse ,
Rounded
Rectangle ,
Square ,
Torus Explore this topic in
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