What is a square?

A square is the locus of all the points in a plane for which the sum of the distances from two given perpendicular lines is constant. Drag point I to find out.


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If you want to know eleven more definitions of a square, go to my post Twelve Definitions of a Square posted in Mathematics for Teaching.