Shaped like a half-risen sun with clear plastic ribs, I sit on a math student's desk to judge every corner, deciding whether it is sharp, square, or blunt. What geometry tool am I?
A protractor
A semicircular protractor is used to measure angles, categorizing them as acute (sharp), right (square), or obtuse (blunt).
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