| 412 pages
...practical examples, before the science was established by abstract reasoning. Thus, that the square of the hypothenuse of a rightangled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides, was un experimental discovery, or why did the discoverer sacrifice... | |
| James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1847 - 426 pages
...7056. 15. 43081. 22. 3.172181. 29. 207f£. 9. 9801. 16. 47089. 23. 10342656. 30. 34967ft-. 371 578. The square described on the hypothenuse of a rightangled triangle, is equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides. (Thomson's Legendre, B. IV. 11, Euc. I. 47.) The truth... | |
| James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1847 - 434 pages
...contains 25 sq. ft. Hence, the square described on the hypothenuse of any right-angled triangle^ is equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides. OBS. Since the square of the hypothenuse BC, is 25, it follows that the , or 5, must be the hypothenuse... | |
| James Robinson (of Boston.) - 1847 - 304 pages
...comparative solidity ? Art. 263. We have shown by a diagram in Art. 189, that the square described upon the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle, is equal to the sum of the squares described upon the base and perpendicular. Hence, when two sides of any right-angled triangle... | |
| James Bates Thomson - Arithmetic - 1848 - 434 pages
...right-angled at B, mid Uio «idu JIC in tin- hypothenuse. B Base. ARTS. 575-580.] SQUARE ROOT. 371 578. The square described on the hypothenuse of a rightangled triangle, is equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides. (Thomson's Legendre, B. IV. 11, Euc. I. 47.) The truth... | |
| Charles Davies - Trigonometry - 1849 - 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 from A,... | |
| Almon Ticknor - Measurement - 1849 - 156 pages
...? 26. If you describe a square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle, will it be equivalent to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides ? 27. What is the circumference of a circle? Radius? Arc? Chord? Segment? 28. What is an inscribed... | |
| Rufus Putnam - Arithmetic - 1849 - 276 pages
...the square H to be equal to the number of small squares in the squares I and K. Hence, the square of the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of both the other sides ; and, therefore, the hypothenuse is equal to the square root of... | |
| Thomas Dick - Cosmology - 1850 - 684 pages
...branches of mathematical and physical science. That " a whole is greater than any of its parts,"—that " the square described on the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares described on its rera%i#titf »Mes," are facts, the one deduced fiwqa ^fctasrvation or... | |
| Thomas Dick - Astronomy - 1850 - 964 pages
...of mathematical and physical »cience. That " a whole is greater than any of its parts," — that " the square described on the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares described on its reu»*'*! «des," are facts, the one deduced frov Jlnxvation or simple... | |
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