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" As the base or sum of the segments Is to the sum of the other two sides, So is the difference of those sides To the difference of the segments of the base. "
A Treatise on Plane and Spherical Trigonometry: With Their Most Useful ... - Page 17
by John Bonnycastle - 1806 - 419 pages
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Surveyor's and Engineer's Companion: a Comcise Treatise on Mathematical ...

William Schmolz - 1859 - 196 pages
...triangle into two right-angled triangles ; then say, as the given base is to the ( sum of the two other sides, so is the difference of those sides, to the difference ( of the segments of the base. To half the base add half the difference of the 5 segments for the greater segment, and subtract it...
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The Artillerists̓ Manual, and British Soldiers̓ Compendium

Frederick Augustus Griffiths - Artillery - 1859 - 426 pages
...triangles : then the proportion will be— As the base, or sum of the segments, is to the sum of the otJier two sides; so is the difference of those sides, to the difference of the segments of the bases : then add half the difference of the segments to the half sum, or the half base, for the greater...
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A Practical Treatise on the Science of Land and Engineering Surveying ...

Henry S. Merrett - 1863 - 428 pages
...segments, and the whole triangle into two right angled triangles. Then, as the base or sum of the two segments is to the sum of the other two sides, so...sides to the difference of the segments of the base. Half the difference of the segments thus found, added to the half base, gives the greater segment,...
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A practical treatise on ... land and engineering surveying, Volume 34

Henry S. Merrett - 1863 - 476 pages
...segments, and the whole triangle into two right angled triangles. Then, as the base or sum of the two segments is to the sum of the other two sides, so...sides to the difference of the segments of the base. Half the difference of the segments thus found, added to the half base, gives the greater segment,...
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The Practical Model Calculator, for the Engineer, Mechanic, Machinist ...

Oliver Byrne - Engineering - 1863 - 600 pages
...segments, and the whole triangle into two right-angled triangles ; it will be, As the base, or sum of the segments, Is to the sum of the other two sides ; So...sides, To the difference of the segments of the base. Then, half the difference of the segments being added to the half sum, or the half base, gives the...
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A practical treatise on mining, land and railway surveying ..., Volume 35

Henry Davis Hoskold - 1863 - 308 pages
...upon it from the opposite angle. Then, as the base or sum of the segments made by the perpendicular is to the sum of the other two sides, so is the difference of those sides to the difference of the segment of the base, and half the difference added to the half base will give the greater segment,...
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Mathematics for Practical Men: Being a Common-place Book of Principles ...

Olinthus Gregory - 1863 - 482 pages
...three sides as base, then say, conformably with prop. 16, As the base, To the sum of the two other sides ; So is the difference of those sides, To the difference of the segments of the base. Half the base added to the said difference gives the greater segment, and made less by it gives the...
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A Treatise on Surveying: In which the Theory and Practice are Fully ...

Samuel Alsop - Surveying - 1865 - 440 pages
...on it let fall a perpendicular from the opposite angle. Then, as the base is to the sum of the other sides, so is the difference of those sides to the difference of the segments of the base. Half this difference added to half the base will give the greater segment, and subtracted will give...
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The Theory of Navigation and Nautical Astronomy: Together with the Elements ...

William Thomas Read - Nautical astronomy - 1869 - 176 pages
...method, though little used, will find an angle, when three sides are given. As the base, or longest side, is to the sum of the other two sides, so is the difference...sides, to the difference of the segments of the base, made by a perpendicular drawn from the opposite angle. Then the half difference added to half the base,...
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Treatise on the arrangement, application and use of slide rules

Thomas Dixon (engineer.) - 1875 - 158 pages
...side of an Oblique-angled Plane Triangle, to find the Angles. 1stly — As the base, or longest side ; the sum of the other two sides So is the difference of these two sides ; difference of segments of base made by a perpendicular from its opp. angle. The base...
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