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The Natural Philosopher wrote:
I hand my grandson a sheet of A4 paper and ask him what shape it is,
he replies it's a rectangle. Wrong.

Gawaaan, I‘ll bite. What do you call it?

Tim

Presumably, as it does have thickness, it could be termed a cuboid.

Precisely that.

Well as it has roughness, no it couldn't. It is an indeterminate solid.


And thus your pedantry is exposed.


If you excuse the surface torigness to make it approximately a perfect
cuboid, the thickness can be excused as well to make it a perfect
rectangle.

You can cut paper to provide a perfect line? Much better than any surface
roughness?

With the ability to cherry pick properties like that you belong in
politics or climate science.

Pot, kettle. HTH.

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