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Old Mon Feb 04, 2008, 09:31am
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Originally Posted by eg-italy
That's envy because we know more geometrical figures than you.

Do you know how to compute the area of a trapezoid (in the US sense, I learnt now from a dictionary that the meanings of trapezoid and trapezium are exchanged from British English to American English ) if the bases are given in yards and feet and the height in inches?

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I learned to call the geometric figure a trapezoid, and that the trapezium is a muscle in the palm of the hand.
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