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<p>A trait that’s not actually unique to English. Those are noun phrases idiomatic to English, but those are just classical cases of semantic drift. Consider the etymological history of the word “nice”.</p>
<p>Anyway, the problem is not in the box’s dimensions, but how the box may be tied. In real life you would never wrap a box so perfectly (especially if you’re covering two different “vectors” with one ribbon) that you would only use the perimeters of the combined cross-sections.</p>