| W. Hilton - Science - 1797 - 308 pages
...Elliott, and Sc'hven. . : : . QUESTION 16. By Mr. Join Brookes. GIVEN the difference of the sides, the difference of the segments of the base made by a perpendicular from the vertical angle, and the radius of the inscribed circle to construct, the triangle. Answered by Mr.... | |
| John Hamilton Moore - Nautical astronomy - 1810 - 662 pages
...be, As the greatest aide Is to the sum of the oilier two «ides, So is the difference of thoac sides To the difference of the segments of the base made by a perpendicular, let (all from the angle opposite the base. The «ids BA 88, BC 54, AC 1 08, given t;i find the angles... | |
| Olinthus Gregory - Plane trigonometry - 1816 - 278 pages
...triangle it will be, as the base, to the sum of the two other sides, so is the difference of those sides, to the difference of the segments of the base made by a perpendicular let fall from the vertical angle. From the centre c (namely, the vertical angle of the triangle ABC)... | |
| Thomas Leybourn - Mathematics - 1817 - 454 pages
...QUESTION 1242, by Mr. John Dewhurst, Blackburn. Given the difference of the angles at the base, and the difference of the segments of the base, made by a perpendicular from the vertex ; to construct the triangle when the rectangle under the sum and difference of the sides is a maximum.... | |
| Thomas Leybourn - Mathematics - 1817 - 442 pages
...is 96 chains ; ^ of the base or longest side is just equal to tiie difference of the other two ; and the difference of the segments of the base made by a perpendicular from the opposite angle is 2, chains less than the shortest side. The land is to be divided amongst three men,... | |
| John Bonnycastle - Trigonometry - 1818 - 488 pages
...I. As the longest side, taken as a base : sum of the other two sides : : difference of those sides : difference of the segments of the base, made by a perpendicular from the opposite ^ . the greater segment, or that next the greater side ; . and subtracted from it, gives the... | |
| Thomas Leybourn - Mathematics - 1819 - 430 pages
...given circle to inscribe a triangle, such that the difference of its sides shall be in a given ratio to the difference of the segments of the base made by a perpendicular from the vertical angle ; and the prism, whose base is the triangle and altitude the said perpendicular a maximum.... | |
| Miles Bland - Euclid's Elements - 1819 - 442 pages
...perpendiculars. (17.) Given the vertical angle, the difference of the two sides containing it, and the difference of the segments of the base made by a perpendicular from the vertex ; to construct the triangle. Let AB be equal to the given difference of the segments of the base. Draw... | |
| William Nicholson - Natural history - 1821 - 356 pages
...the base, or greater side, is to the sum of the other two sides ; so is the difference of the sides to the difference of the segments of the base, made by a perpendicular let fall from the angle opposite to the base : and if half the difference of the 12.02862 9.86786 2.16076... | |
| Thomas Simpson - Algebra - 1821 - 426 pages
...Jin the base of any plane triangle is to the sum of the two sides, so is the difference of the sides to the difference of the segments of the base, made by a perpendicular falling from the vertical angle. - For, Let ABC be the proposed triangle, and BD the perpendicular;... | |
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