> Timpe, Jim [mailto:Jim.Timpe@xxxxxxxxx] wrote:
> The ISO is from 'isosceles', as in triangle, as in three
> EQUAL sides.
Doesn't an isosceles triangle have (at least) *two* equal
sides (three equal sides being "equilateral", but still a
type of isosceles), the name coming from "iso" (equal) and
sceles (skelos=leg)?
It doesn't change your point though :-)
Cheers
Marc (trying to remember his school-maths)
Sydney, Oz
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