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A New System of Arithmetic, on the Cancelling Plan: Embracing the Rules of ... - Page 223
by Charles Guilford Burnham - 1841 - 312 pages
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Bell's New Pantheon: Or, Historical Dictionary of the Gods, Demi-gods ...

John Bell - Classical dictionaries - 1790 - 422 pages
...having discovered the demonstration of the 47th proposition of the first book of Euclid, viz. that in n right angled triangle the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the two other sides. Julius Capito/ linus relates, that when an Hecatomb was to be sacrificed,...
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A System of Geometry and Trigonometry: Together with a Treatise on Surveying ...

Abel Flint - Surveying - 1804 - 226 pages
...be found by the Square Root, without finding the Angles ; according to the following PROPOSITION : In every Right Angled Triangle, the Square of the Hypothenuse is equal to the Sum of the Squares of the two Legs. Hence, The Square of the given Leg being subtracted from the Square of the...
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A System of Geometry and Trigonometry: Together with a Treatise on Surveying ...

Abel Flint - Surveying - 1808 - 190 pages
...be found by the Square Root, without Finding the Angles ; according to the following PROPOSITION : In every Right Angled Triangle, the Square of the Hypothenuse is equal to the Sum of the Squares of the two Legs. Hence, The Square of the given Leg being subtracted from the Square of the...
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A Practical Application of the Principles of Geometry to the Mensuration of ...

Jeremiah Day - Measurement - 1815 - 388 pages
...referred to. 94. Other relations of the sine, tangent, Sic. may be derived from the proposition, that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the perpendicular sides. (Euc. 47. I.) In the right angled triangles CBG, CAD, and CHF,...
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A Treatise of Plane Trigonometry: To which is Prefixed, a Summary View of ...

Jeremiah Day - Logarithms - 1815 - 172 pages
...the third side may be found, without the aid of the trigonometrical tables, by the proposition, that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the two perpendicular sides. (Euc. 47. 1.) If the legs be given, extracting the square root...
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The complete measurer: or, The whole art of measuring, containing the ...

Thomas Keith - 1817 - 306 pages
...arc AD B. 4. An angle IAD in a semi'circle is a right angle (EUCLID 31 ./III.) 5. In a right-angled triangle the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides, (EuctiD 47 «/"!.) see also Problem VI. 6. If a perpendicular be drawn...
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1818 - 596 pages
...observes: •;•• ,'.I asked the Japanese academician whether he was perfectly convinced that in a right angled triangle the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides ? He answered in the affirmative. I then asked how they were certain...
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American Edition of the British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of ..., Volume 6

William Nicholson - Natural history - 1819 - 394 pages
...which subtends the right angle. Euclid, lib. i. proposition 47, demonstrates, that in every rectilmear right angled triangle, the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the squares of both the other sides. This celebrated problem was discovered by Pythagoras, who is said...
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Elements of Geometry

Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1819 - 574 pages
...others ; for the three figures will be proportional to the squares of their homologous sides ; now the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the two other sides ; therefore, &c. THEOREM. 223. The parts of two chards which cut each...
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British Encyclopedia: Or, Dictionary of Arts and Sciences ..., Volume 12

William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 356 pages
...right-angled triangles, which are similar to the first triangle, and to one another. In every right-angled triangle, the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides; and, in general, any figure described on the hypothenuse is equal to...
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