| | We decide to call the say that
the triangle a has half the area of the rectangle
) .
Can't you imagine that the question how big is the area
of the triangle ) should make no sense to
you at all as you only talked of areas of
rectang[el|le]s. One might be inclined to say,
that the triangle had not really one particular area;
perhaps that there was a series of areas which could be said to
approach filling the triangle. |