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  1. Aug 22nd, 2000, 10:44 AM #1
    Sam Finch
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    You now when you have a rectangle you can draw 2 Diagonal lines from corner to corner, one from the top left to the bottom right and one from the bottom left to the top right


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         _______
     |\    /|
     | \  / |
     |  \/  |
     |  /\  |
     | /  \ |
     |/____\|

    The line from the top left to bottom right is called the leading diagonal, what's the other one called?
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  2. Aug 22nd, 2000, 12:17 PM #2
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    not familiar with this notation, but i would imagine it would be the 'trailing' diagonal.
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  3. Aug 22nd, 2000, 12:21 PM #3
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    Unless I'm mistaken (and I probably am), since it's a rectangle, they're both the same kind of diagonal... I think a leading diagonal is in other sorts of quadrilaterals, like rhombi...
    Code:
       .
  /|\
 / | \
/__|__\
\  |  /
 \ | /
  \|/
   .
    In this rhombus, the diagonal between the top & bottom points is supposed to be a leading/primary diagonal, and the diagonal between the left & right points is a secondary diagonal... That's at least how much I know... Probably wrong...
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  4. Aug 22nd, 2000, 01:20 PM #4
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    Wink This is the second time I've dont this to you, Sam

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    I like those kebabs too...
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    what about "Donnar" ?

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  8. Aug 22nd, 2000, 01:34 PM #7
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    Doner kebabs are nice too .
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  9. Aug 22nd, 2000, 03:15 PM #8
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    By the way thanks to Wossname and Yontan for saying usefull things, I'm going with trailing diagonal as I thought that's what it was but wasn't sure.

    Yontan I think in your rhombus the line from top to botton is a vertical and left to right is a horizontal, Diagonals are usually diagonals, if it fell over to the left then they'd be diagonal and the long one would be the leading diagonal.




    [Edited by Sam Finch on 08-22-2000 at 04:18 PM]
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  11. Aug 22nd, 2000, 03:59 PM #9
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    Hehe, I searched everywhere for this another diagonal in rectange, and you know what? I didn't find anything.

    So actually we can call this the kedaman-diagonal since noone has yet given a name to it, hehehe
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    Thumbs up i think Yonatan is right

    i think what Yonatan is right...
    BTW, we have in my country like 20 defferent kinds of Kebabs, its originally a turkish food, but since we are "ARABS" very close to turky we have many kinds of kebab, but we don't have Doner kebab, i only seen that in england when i was there two years ago, and every body was eating doner kebab after clubbing,,right??and i love it so much more than shis kebab,
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  13. Aug 22nd, 2000, 11:08 PM #11
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    Diagonals

    Can't help but wonder why it's important to give them names?

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