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" In every plane triangle, the sum of two sides is to their difference as the tangent of half the sum of the angles opposite those sides is to the tangent of half their difference. "
Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry - Page 241
by Adrien Marie Legendre - 1837 - 359 pages
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The Second [-fifth and Sixth] Part of A Course of Mathematics: Adapted to ...

Jeremiah Day - Geometry - 1824 - 440 pages
...equal to the sum, and FH to the di/erencc of AC and AB. And by theorem II, [Art. 144.] the sum of the sides is to their difference ; as the tangent of half the sum of the opposite angles, to the tangent of half their difference. Therefore, R : Tan(ACH-45°)::Tan^(ACB-fB)...
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A treatise on navigation, and nautical astronomy

Edward Riddle - Nautical astronomy - 1824 - 572 pages
...= cot B, and tan DAC = cot C. PROPOSITION VI. The slim of any two sides of a triangle is to tlieir difference, as the tangent of half the sum of the angles opposite to those sides is to the tangent of half their difference. Let А В С be any plane triangle. Then...
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A Popular Course of Pure and Mixed Mathematics ...: With Tables of ...

Peter Nicholson - Mathematics - 1825 - 1046 pages
...proportion AC + CB : AC— CB:: tangí (B+C) : tang-i (B—C) it follows that in any triangle the sum of any two sides is to their difference, as the tangent of half the sum of the two angles opposite these sides, is to the tangent of half the difference of these same angles. Let...
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The New American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of Navigation ...

Nathaniel Bowditch - Nautical astronomy - 1826 - 732 pages
...any triangle (supposing any side to be the basr, and calling the other two the sides) the sum of the sides is to their difference, as the tangent of half the sum of the angles at the base is to the tangent of half the difference of the tame angles. Thus, in the triangle ABC,...
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An Introduction to the Theory and Practice of Plain and Spherical ...

Thomas Keith - Navigation - 1826 - 504 pages
...chords of double their opposite angles. PROPOSITION IV. (E) 1. In any plane triangle, the sum of any two sides is to their difference, as the tangent of half the sum of their ^opposite angles, is to the tangent of half their difference. Let ABC be any triangle; make BE...
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The New American Practical Navigator: Being an Epitome of Navigation ...

Nathaniel Bowditch - Nautical astronomy - 1826 - 764 pages
...triangle (supposing any aide to be the base, and calling the other two the tide*) the sum of the sida is to their difference, as the tangent of half the sum of tht ongfcs at the base is to the tangent of half the difference of the tame angla. Thus, in the triangle...
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An Elementary Treatise on Plane and Spherical Trigonometry and on the ...

Silvestre François Lacroix - Geometry, Analytic - 1826 - 190 pages
...^r;» ^'otn which tang i (a' -f- 6') sin a' + sin 6' we infer, that the sum of the sines of two arcs is to their difference, as the tangent of half the sum of these arcs is to the tangent of half their difference, is obtained immediately by a very elegant geometrical...
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The Elements of Euclid: The Errors by which Theon, Or Others, Have Long ...

Robert Simson - Trigonometry - 1827 - 546 pages
...three being given, the fourth is also given. PROP. III. FIG. 8. In a plane triangle, the sum of any two sides is to their difference, as the tangent of half the sum of the angles at the base, to the tangent of half their difference. Let ABC be a plane triangle, the sum of any two...
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An Analytical Treatise on Plane and Spherical Trigonometry, and the Analysis ...

Dionysius Lardner - Plane trigonometry - 1828 - 434 pages
...plane triangle are as the sines of the opposite angles. (73.) The sum of two sides of a plane triangle is to their difference as the tangent of half the sum of the opposite angles to the tangent of half their difference. •* ^74.) Formulae for the sine, cosine,...
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The Southern Review, Volume 3

1829 - 536 pages
...first of these cases is shewn to depend on the theorem, that, " the sum of two sidi\s of a triangle is to their difference, as the tangent of half the sum of the opposite angles to the tangent of half their difference." This half difference added to half the sum,...
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