 | Education - 1914 - 914 pages
...were hunting Uie wild beasts on horseback. GEOMETRY.— X. • 9 to 11 am, Friday, 25 June, 1915. 1. Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side. 2. Two right-angled triangles which have their hypotenuses equal, and one side of the one equal to... | |
 | American literature - 1914 - 798 pages
...the shortest distance from one point to another is as "the crow flies"; and stated his proposition that any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third. Ask the average boy to prove this as a general theorem: he will draw a perfect figure, measure the... | |
 | American periodicals - 1914 - 884 pages
...the shortest distance from one point to another is as "the crow flies"; and stated his proposition that any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third. Ask the average boy to prove this as a general theorem : he will draw a perfect figure, measure the... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1914 - 430 pages
...of a triangle are unequal, the greater side has the greater angle opposite to it : and the converse. Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third. Of all the straight lines that can be drawn to a given straight line from a given point outside it,... | |
 | Harold Albert Wilson - Physics - 1915 - 428 pages
...sines of the angles COB, AOC and AOB are found to be proportional to the weights Wl, W2 and W2. Since any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side, it follows that any two of three forces in equilibrium must be together not less than the third. If two forces... | |
 | Paul Carus - Electronic journals - 1916 - 666 pages
...PROPOSITIONS. It has often been maintained that the twentieth proposition of the first book of Euclid — that two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side — is evident even to asses. This does not however seem to me generally true. I once asked a coastguardsman... | |
 | Philip Edward Bertrand Jourdain - Philosophy - 1918 - 108 pages
...PROPOSITIONS IT has often been maintained that the twentieth proposition of the first book of Euclid — that two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side — is evident even to asses* This does not, however, seem to me generally true. I once asked a coastguardsman... | |
 | Philip Edward Bertrand Jourdain - Philosophy - 1918 - 104 pages
...PROPOSITIONS IT has often been maintained that the twentieth proposition of the first book of Euclid — that two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side — is evident even to asses. This does not, however, seem to me generally true. I once asked a coastguardsman... | |
 | Stacy Aumonier - World War, 1914-1918 - 1919 - 370 pages
...man with a sense of form can see at a glance. I don't want a man to spend half the morning telling me that any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side. I also object to his method of proving that some quite obvious and useless proposition is wrong and... | |
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Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side. 
