| James Edward McCulloch - Christian sociology - 1913 - 84 pages
...being able to demonstrate that the square described on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides, while they may be absolutely ignorant of the fundamental laws of biology. We have gotten into an old... | |
| Charles Ernest Chadsey - 1914 - 274 pages
...figures, joined to form a rhombus? The square described on the hypotenuse of a rightangled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides. This fact was learned by the Greeks, centuries before Christ. Here it is illustrated: A number multiplied... | |
| University of Aberdeen - 1915 - 944 pages
...questions.] 1. — Prove that the square described on the greatest side of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides. A point moves in such a way that the difference of the squares on its distances from two fixed points... | |
| Eva F. Buker - 1915 - 436 pages
...have found in the other triangle ? 6. The square described on the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides. 7. The square described upon either the base or the altitude of a right triangle is equal to the difference... | |
| Ernest McCullough - Surveying - 1915 - 466 pages
...surveyor. 3. To erect from a point on a given straight line a perpendicular to the line. The square on the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares upon the other two sides; that is Hyp.2 = base* + altitude*, Hyp. = Vbase2 + altitude2.... | |
| Graham Romeyn Taylor - Cities and towns - 1915 - 368 pages
...checker-board streets of the town, for a distance easily caleulable by the old formula that the squara of the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Our general failure to bring city planning to bear " where it will... | |
| Graham Romeyn Taylor - Cities and towns - 1915 - 366 pages
...checker-board streets of the town, for a distance easily calculable by the old formula that the square of the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Our general failure to bring city planning to bear * where it will... | |
| Frank Nugent Freeman - Education - 1916 - 300 pages
...measured by the product of the length of the two adjacent sides, or even of the fact that the square on the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the two legs, without going through any rigid demonstration of these facts. Thus the... | |
| John William Norie, J. W. Saul - Nautical astronomy - 1917 - 642 pages
...ACDB into two equal parts.— QED In a right-angled triangle the square described on the hypotenusa is equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides. Let ABC be a right-angled triangle, having the angle BAC a right angle ; then shall the square described on the... | |
| H. E. Licks - 1917 - 224 pages
...proposition in the first book of Euclid's Elements of Geometry is the forty-seventh, namely : The square on the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides. This truth was known to Hindoos and Egyptians long before the time... | |
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