 | Jim Cooper - Architecture - 2000 - 286 pages
...a large area requires use of the mathematical law that says the sum of the squares of the two sides of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse (the diagonal, when the right triangle is made by dividing a rectangle with a line between opposite... | |
 | W. Michael Kelley - Mathematics - 2002 - 342 pages
...Pythagorean theorem. Remember that little nugget from geometry? It said that the sum of the squares of the legs of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse: a2 + b2 = c2. Ever since I taught these three, I have named them the Mama, Papa, and Baby theorems... | |
 | Edward Teller, Wendy Teller, Wilson Talley - Mathematics - 2002 - 268 pages
...interested in precision. Figure 1 . The Pythagorean theorem says that the sum of the squares of the legs of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse. each of the sides. The area of the square constructed on the side of length a is a2 (a2 means a times... | |
 | Phyllis Barkas Goldman - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2002 - 192 pages
...important theorems in geometry is the Pythagorean Theorem, which says, "The sum of the squares of two sides of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle (Every right triangle has a right angle.) Equal triangles have the... | |
 | Phil DeMarois, Mercedes A. McGowen, Darlene Whitkanack - Mathematics - 2005 - 674 pages
...theorem from geometry called the Pythagorean theorem, which states that the sum of the squares of the legs of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse. When measuring lengths on a right triangle, this theorem is commonly used. If we take the square root... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Geometry - 2003 - 216 pages
...find some of them on the Internet. The Pythagorean Theorem states that the sum of the squares of the legs of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse of that triangle. In the right triangle below, solve for the value of the x and find the lengths of... | |
 | James Porter Moreland, William Lane Craig - Religion - 2003 - 673 pages
...are properly basic (see chap. 5). For example, the proposition The sum of the squares of the sides of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse is self-evidently true. Similarly, the proposition expressed by the sentence "I feel pain" is incorrigibly... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Helen Katharine Bond, Seth D. Kunin, Francesca Murphy - Religion - 2003 - 644 pages
...way. Think of the truth of the Pythagorean theorem in geometry: the sum of the squares on the sides of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse. It could not be any other way, and the proof of this theorem effectively conveys that insight to your... | |
 | 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,... | |
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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. 
