 | Douglas B. Reeves - Education - 2002 - 320 pages
...multiple-choice tests. Moreover, the requirement to demonstrate that the sum of the square of two sides of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse (a2 + b2 = c2) does not change, while the national average does change from year to year. Part One... | |
 | Norbert Samuelson - Religion - 2006 - 358 pages
...engineering was formalized as the Pythagorean theorem, viz., the sum of the squares of each adjacent side of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse. Pythagoras of Samos, after whom this geometric law is named, lived between 580 and 500 BCE, but historians... | |
 | George Karniadakis, Robert M. Kirby - Computers - 2003 - 640 pages
...computer in single precision? 7. The Pythagorean theorem states that the sum of the squares of the sides of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse. Thus, if x and y are the lengths of the two sides of a right triangle, and z is the length of the hypotenuse,... | |
 | Christopher Gordon De Pree, Alan Axelrod - Science - 2004 - 434 pages
...geometry. Not only did he come up with the Pythagorean theorem — the sum of the squares of the sides of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse — but he also taught that Earth was a globe (not a cylinder, as Anaximander thought), fixed within... | |
 | Lew Howard - Philosophy - 2005 - 500 pages
...to explain to a person with the magic or mythic worldview that the sum of the squares of the sides of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse. You can explain all day, but a first grade student just won't get it. This geometry theorem does not... | |
 | Lew Howard - Philosophy - 2005 - 500 pages
...to explain to a person with the magic or mythic worldview that the sum of the squares of the sides of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse. You can explain all day, but a first grade student just won't get it. This geometry theorem does not... | |
 | Theresa R. Fitzgerald - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 2006 - 146 pages
...rectangular pyramid Prism Pythagorean Theorem A theorem that the sum of the squares of the two sides of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse. Example: a2 + b2 = c2 42 + 32 = 52 '16 + 9 = 25 Quadrant A quarter of a plane figure that has been... | |
 | Larry Laveman - 2006 - 165 pages
...foundation for mathematics. The theorem, x2 + y2 = z2 says that the sum of the squares of any two sides of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse. The Pythagorean Theorem is true for any right triangle imaginable to infinity. In other words, it is... | |
 | Beatriz Rivera - Fiction - 2006 - 308 pages
...found her when he returned from his golf game with Carmelo Ignaffo. "The sum of the squares of the legs of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse. That's a squared plus b squared equals c squared," she explained to her unborn child. "Now get it in... | |
 | Gerry Bailey - Finance - 2006 - 52 pages
...although his writings have been lost. The theorem states that the sum of the squares of the two legs of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse (the longest side). Not much is known ' about Pythagoras, other than that he Iwas a mathematician and... | |
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Pythagorean theorem, which states that the sum of the squares of the sides of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse. 
