| Theodore Lindquist - Mathematics - 1920 - 252 pages
...triangle. The side opposite the right angle is named hypotenuse. The symbols are A ABC and IX MNK. Any side of a triangle is less than the sum of the other two sides, because it is shorter to go from A to B along the straight line AB than from A to... | |
| William Fogg Osgood - Calculus - 1925 - 560 pages
...1/z. 3. Inequalities. If Sf and S3 be any two complex numbers, then (1) |a + »|£|a| + |»|. For, any side of a triangle is less than the sum of the other two sides ; cf. Fig. 117, § 2. Hence, for a true triangle, only the sign of inequality can hold.... | |
| Julius J. H. Hayn - Geometry, Plane - 1925 - 328 pages
...perpendicular, cutting off equal distances from" the foot of the perpendicular, are equal. 127. Prop. LII. Any side of a triangle is less than the sum of the other twc sides. Euclid seems to have employed two very advanced truths to establish an axiom. 128.... | |
| William Fogg Osgood - Calculus - 1925 - 554 pages
...1/z. 3. Inequalities. If 21 and ?) be any two complex numbers, then (1) |& + «|£ |H| + |«|. For, any side of a triangle is less than the sum of the other two sides ; cf. Fig. 117, § 2. Hence, for a true triangle, only the sign of inequality can hold.... | |
| G.E. Martin - Mathematics - 1997 - 536 pages
...less than the sum of the other two. Proof From the Triangle Inequality we already know that the length of any side of a triangle is less than the sum of the lengths of the other two sides. We now prove the converse. Without loss of generality we may suppose... | |
| Murray H. Protter, Charles B. Jr. Morrey - Mathematics - 1997 - 558 pages
...say At; in this case yt — AiXf = 0 for every i. D We recall that in the Euclidean plane the length of any side of a triangle is less than the sum of the lengths of the other two sides. A generalization of this fact is known as the Triangle inequality.... | |
| L. Bostock, F. S. Chandler, A. Shepherd, Ewart Smith - 1993 - 516 pages
...square is A sq. units and the perimeter of the same square is P units then A < P. * 1 5. The length of any side of a triangle is less than the sum of the lengths of the *16. All positive whole numbers can be expressed as the sum of a selection from the... | |
| William J. Leonard - Physics - 1999 - 376 pages
...sum of the magnitudes is not the magnitude of the sum) • Some geometry might help here: The length of any side of a triangle is less than the sum of the other two lengths, unless one of the angles is 180°. There are different types of pairs of vectors... | |
| Jeff Geha - Mathematics - 2000 - 228 pages
...jz,||z2 =r¡r2 Angle = arg (z,z2 )= arg z, + arg z. (iv) Triangular Inequality |z,+z2< Proof: The length of any side of a triangle is less than the sum of the other two sides. lnAOAC:OC<OA ЪиЮС= О The only time the inequality holds is when the points O,... | |
| Titu Andreescu, Zuming Feng - Mathematics - 2004 - 106 pages
...with sides lengths a |, \ß\, and a + ß\. The triangle inequality restates the fact the the length of any side of a triangle is less than the sum of the lengths of the other two sides. Trigonometric Identities sin2x + cos2 z = 1, sinx 1 tan x = , cot x... | |
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