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in 3d shapes, a prism must have two congruent bases, and all of the other sides must be made of congruent rectangles. (squares are rectangles.

A2. A prism is a solid with two parallel ends, and of constant cross-section between them. And normally with 90deg between the base and a side.

It may be of any number of sides, and as the number of sides gets large, the shape approaches that of a cylinder.

This is one item of the set of prismatoids, others of which can ignore the 90deg constraint and so on.

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