| Charles Davies - Logic - 1850 - 398 pages
...prove that the square Example, described on the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle is equivalent to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides, we demonstrate the fact for all right-angled triangles. But in analysis, all numbers, all lines, all... | |
| Daniel Leach - Arithmetic - 1851 - 280 pages
...called the hypothenuse, and A Eas6' the other two sides the base and perpendicular. longest side , is equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides. Thus, suppose the longest side is 10 ft.., the base 6 ft., and the perpendicular 8 ft. 102:z=:100.... | |
| 1851 - 382 pages
...equal to a given angle, . •I. If the square described upon one of the sides _ 1C 3 of a triangle be equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides, the angle contained by those two sides is a right angle, . . 3. If a straight line be divided into... | |
| 1851 - 716 pages
...this proposition is known as the Pythagorean : the square described upon the hypothenuse is equivalent to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides. As the unit of measure for the determination of the superficial relations of figures, we use a square... | |
| Theology - 1857 - 924 pages
...the very nature of things, two and two make four ; the whole is greater than a part ; the square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle, is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. We find, in the works of Dr. Gill, no allusion to the Utilitarian... | |
| Johann Georg Heck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1851 - 712 pages
...this proposition is known as the Pythagorean : the square described upon the hypothenuse is equivalent to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides. As the unit of measure for the determination of the superficial relations of figures, we use a square... | |
| Charles Davies - Arithmetic - 1852 - 438 pages
...worthy of particular notice. In every right angled triangle, the square described on the hypothenuse, is equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides. Thus, if ABC be a right angled tria,ngle, right angled at C, then will the square D described on AB... | |
| Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1852 - 436 pages
...right-angled triangle, right-angled at A : then will the square described on the hypothenuse BC be equivalent to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides, BA, AC. FGI H D Haying described a square on each of the three sides, let fall from A, on the hypothenuse,... | |
| Daniel Leach - Arithmetic - 1853 - 622 pages
...sides the base and perpendicular. 293. The square described on the hypothenuse, or longest side, is equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides. Thus, suppose the longest side is 10 ft., the base 6 ft., and the perpendicular 8 ft. 10a=100. 6a=36.... | |
| Charles Anthon - Greek literature - 1853 - 610 pages
...the propositions that the triangle inscribed in a semicircle is right-angled, and that the square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the sides.' Discoveries in astronomy are also attributed to him ; and there can be little... | |
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