The square described on the hypotenuse of a rightangled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares described on the sides containing the right angle. Prop. 30. — If the square on one side of a triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other... Arithmetic [elementary, Intermediate, Advanced]. - Page 143by Charles Ernest Chadsey - 1914Full view - About this book
| Isaac Watts - Conduct of life - 1801 - 342 pages
...ploughman that the three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles, or that the square of the hypotenuse of 'a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the two sides; the ploughman, who has but confused ideas of these things, may firmly... | |
| Henry Malden - Rome - 1830 - 166 pages
...arithmetic, mathematics, and astronomy. He discovered the proof of the proposition, that the square en the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other sides. He knew that the sun was the centre round which the earth and other... | |
| Thomas Perronet Thompson - Euclid's Elements - 1833 - 168 pages
...demonstrated. PROPOSITION XLVIII. THEOREM. — If the square described on one of the sides of a triangle, be equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides of it; the angle made by those two sides is a right angle. Let ABC be a triangle, which is such that... | |
| 1837 - 490 pages
...square root ; but no figure or explanation is given, excepting the following foot-note : " The square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle, is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides." It should be represented as under : OLASGOW. 44 miles. EDINBURGH.... | |
| 1837 - 488 pages
...square root ; but no figure or explanation is given, excepting the following foot-note : " The square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle, is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides." It should be represented as under : GLASGOW. 44 miles. EDINBURGH.... | |
| Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1838 - 372 pages
...PROPOSITION XI. THEOREM. The square described on the hypothenuse of a right angled triangle is equivalent to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides. • Let the triangle ABC be right angled at A. Having described squares on the three sides, let fall... | |
| Charles Davies - Geometrical drawing - 1840 - 262 pages
...degrees, and 4=90 degrees. 10. In every right angled triangle, the square described on the hypothenuse, is equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides. Thus, if ABC be a right angled triangle, right angled at C, then will the square D described on AB... | |
| Charles Harrison Lyon - American essays - 1842 - 156 pages
...only to find the hypotenuse of the right-angled triangle BO E. Now it is well known that the square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. If then we take twice the square of 25, which is the length in... | |
| Scotland free church, gen. assembly - 1847 - 554 pages
...it makes the alternate angles equal. 2. If the square described on one of the sides of a triangle be equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides, these sides contain a right angle. 3. Divide a given line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained... | |
| Nicholas Tillinghast - Geometry, Plane - 1844 - 110 pages
...PROP. VII. THEOREM. The square described on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equivalent to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides. Let the triangle be Fig. 64. KDI, right angled at I. Describe squares on KD, KI, DI ; then we have... | |
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