Why the area of a rectangle is calculated by the formula P=a b?

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Authors: Iwona Tyrala, Jacek Jędrzejewski 

Publication date: 17 October 2022

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History and biography (01-XX) Differential geometry (53-XX)

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