"Square-shaped" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... diagram as a familiar friend of their youth. A man possessed a square-shaped estate. He bequeathed to his widow the quarter of it that is shaded off. The remainder was to be divided equitably amongst his four sons, so that each should receive land of exactly the same area and exactly similar in shape. We are shown how this was ...
— Amusements in Mathematics • Henry Ernest Dudeney |
