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The Elements of Euclid; viz. the first six books,together with the eleventh ... - Page 23
by Euclides - 1841 - 351 pages
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The First Six, and the Eleventh and Twelfth Books of Euclid's Elements: With ...

Euclid, James Thomson - Geometry - 1845 - 382 pages
...not equal to AB : therefore AC is greater than AB. Wherefore, if two angles, &c. PROP. XX. THEOB. — Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side.t * Let the learner compare thia proposition and the following with the 5th and G1h of this book....
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Euclid's Elements of geometry [book 1-6, 11,12] with explanatory notes ...

Euclides - 1845 - 546 pages
...pass through the point A, let it fall otherwise, if possible, as FGDH, and join AF, AG. Then, because two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side, (i. 20.) therefore FG, GA are greater than FA : but FA is equal to FH ; (i. def. 15.) therefore FG,...
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The Elements of Geometry, Symbolically Arranged

Great Britain. Admiralty - Geometry - 1846 - 128 pages
...It has been shown that AC ^ AB, AC > AB. Therefore the greater Z., &c. PROP. XIX. THEOR. 20. 1 Eu. Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side. Let ABC be a <^, then AB + AC> BC, AB+ BOAC, BC + AC> AB. Produce BA to D. Make AD = AC. Prop. s. Join DC. Then...
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The Elements of Euclid, the parts read in the University of Cambridge [book ...

Euclides - 1846 - 292 pages
...the triangle, but contain an angle BDC greater than the angle BAC. Produce BD to E : Then, because any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side (1. 20), the two sides, BA, AE, of the triangle ABE are greater than BE : To each of these add EC ;...
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Practical Geodesy: Comprising Chain Surveying, and the Use of Surveying ...

Sir J. Butler Williams - Geodesy - 1846 - 368 pages
...the true length : this follows from Euclid's 20th proposition of the first book, which proves that any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third. Also, the frequent repetition of errors in the coincidence of the extremities of the chain with the...
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The first book of Euclid's Elements, simplified, explained and illustrated ...

Euclides - 1847 - 128 pages
...is > AC — BC, and AC > BC — AB. Wherefore any side Sec.— QED PROP. XX. THEOR. GEN. ENUN. — Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side. PART. ENUN. — Let ABC be any A. Then the sum of any two of its sides is > the third side, viz., BA...
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Minutes of the Committee of Council on Education: with Appendices, Volume 1

Great Britain. Committee on Education - Education - 1847 - 624 pages
...equal to two right angles, these two straight lines shall be in one and the same straight line. 2. Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side. Section II. 1. To divide a straight line into two such parts that the rectangle of the whole and one...
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General Report on Public Instruction, in the Lower Provinces of the Bengal ...

Bengal (India) - 1848 - 520 pages
...+P xa~l+P xn-z+ ........ +J» = 0 J * n and in the quadratic equation »* — px + </=0 Geometry. 6. Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side. 7. In a circle, the angle in a semicircle is a right angle, but the angle in a segment greater than...
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The definitions, postulates, axioms, and enunciations of the propositions of ...

Euclides - 1848 - 52 pages
...triangle is subtended by the greater side, or has the greater side opposite to it. PROP. XX. THEOREM. Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side. PROP. XXI. THEOREM. If from the ends of a side of a triangle, there be drawn two straight lines to...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1884 - 668 pages
...appellation to Euclid, i. 5, is a modern error, and that the original asses' bridge was the proposition, " Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side," the demonstration being that an ass at A will walk along the third side AB to his provender at в,...
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