quarto
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quar·to
(kwôr'tō) 
n., pl., -tos.
n., pl., -tos.
- The page size obtained by folding a whole sheet into four leaves.
- A book composed of pages of this size.
[Short for Middle English (in) quarto, (in) the fourth part (of a sheet), from Medieval Latin (in) quārtō, from Latin, ablative of quārtus, fourth.]
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4to
paper and printing Symbol 4to. A paper size, being ¼ of a full sheet, the actual size depending on that of the full sheet. Used very commonly in the UK to mean specifically the quarto or folio post or demy trimmed, at 8.5 in × 11 in (215.9 mm × 279.4 mm), termed letter size in North America.
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- Books and Pages - quarto: book page size, equal to one-quarter sheet of foolscap; book printed on quarto pages
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Quarto (board game)
Quarto is a board game for two players invented by Swiss mathematician Blaise Müller.
It is played on a 4×4 board. There are 16 unique pieces, each of which is either:
- tall or short;
- red or blue (or some other pair of colors, such as light or dark stained wood);
- square or circular; and
- hollow or solid.
Players take turns choosing a piece which the other player must then place on the board. A player wins by placing a piece on the board which forms a horizontal, vertical, or diagonal row of four pieces, all of which have a common attribute (all short, all circular, etc.). A variant rule included in many editions gives a second way to win by placing 4 matching pieces in a 2x2 square.
Quarto is distinctive in that there is only one set of common pieces, rather than a set for one player and a different set for the other. It is therefore an impartial game.
External links
- Quarto: Play online against the computer
- Quarto: Quarto and other board games
- www.hagru.at: Variation named Cuatro for the PC (Java)
- Quarto at BoardGameGeek
- Quarto at the Open Directory Project
- 414298141056 Quarto Draws Suffice! at MathPages
- Quarto!: Desktop version made in Java.
- Lineo': Windows and Linux version of Quarto with network play and 3D look
- Quarto: Quarto and other Brain Fitness Games
- Quarto (strategy), Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 10 October 2000, archived from the original on 12 October 2004, http://web.archive.org/web/20041012023358/http://ssel.vub.ac.be/Members/LucGoossens/quarto/quartotext.htm, retrieved 12 July 2009
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