I'd like to think my congresspeople hire aides that have some capacity to identify and name shapes correctly. It's not unreasonable that something with an octag

I'd like to think my congresspeople hire aides that have some capacity to identify and name shapes correctly. It's not unreasonable that something with an octagonal cross-section could also be described as cylindrical - from a distance it could be hard to tell, or one description was intentionally a bit vaguer.