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Square (geometry)

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A square is quadrilateral in which all sides have equal length and all angles are right angles.

Equivalently, the squares are the regular quadrilaterals.


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Introductory

Area

The area of a square can be found by squaring the square's side length: the area of a square with side length is .

Perimeter

The perimeter of a square can be found by multiplying the square's side length by four - .

Diagonal

The length of either diagonal of a square can be obtained by the Pythagorean theorem.


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