Problem 2671. Check if vertices form a rectangle

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Given a set of 4 vertices defined by vectors X and Y, return true if the vertices form a rectangle and false otherwise.
X and Y are not necessarily in sorted order, but you may assume that X(i) is paired with Y(i).
Also, if computing distances in your solution (e.g. with pdist), it is recommended that you round to three decimal places.

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Jan Orwat on 21 Nov 2014

Matt, Jon's example can 'kill' some approaches, that check for trapezoids. X=[-1 -0.5 0.5 1]; Y=[0 sqrt(3)/2 sqrt(3)/2 0]; can eliminate those solutions which check only for 3 unique distances between points. It would be beneficial, to try some trapezoids, as well as kites or rhombi. Anyway, great problem!

Matthew Eicholtz on 22 Nov 2014

Ah yes, I agree. Test suite updated again.

Dyuman Joshi on 12 Jul 2022

I don't know why there is a loop in the test cases when the rng is set to a particular value. randi will generate the same values again and again.
Doesn't make much sense.

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