| Thomas Reid - Intellect - 1855 - 528 pages
...this proposition, — Any two sides of a triangle are together equal to the third, — as of this, — Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third; yet the first of these is impossible. Perhaps it will be said, that, though you understand the meaning... | |
| Theology - 1856 - 984 pages
...force of its conclusions. They who can deny them, * Jxdtptndent for June 28, 1855. may as well deny that any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side, or the truth of any other demonstrable proposition.* What was the peculiar characteristic nature of... | |
| 1856 - 422 pages
...this restriction is plain, when we consider that he had previously proved in his Prop. XX., Book I. that any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third. This, however, is manifest without demonstration, if we adopt Archimedes's definición of a straight... | |
| Cambridge univ, exam. papers - 1856 - 252 pages
...angles at the base, prove that the locus of the vertex is a hyperbola, and find its asymptotes. 1. ANY two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side. If a polygon with only salient angles be situated inside another polygon, the perimeter of the former... | |
| Euclides - 1856 - 168 pages
...opposite the greater of the two AB, AC, or, in other words, AC is greater than A B. XXI.— EUCLID I. 20. Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side. Let ABC be a triangle (Fig. 14), take any side BA and produce it at one extremity to D,- making AD... | |
| Middle-class education - 1857 - 70 pages
...straight line. What figure would be formed by placing two equilateral triangles base to base ? 81. Prove that any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side. Is the same proposition true of the angles of a triangle ? Give reasons for your answer. 32. Prove... | |
| JOHN GRAY - 1857 - 784 pages
...each ? 5. If a : b : : c : d show that a + b : J : : c + d : d and that am : b" : : C" : d" EUCLID. 1. Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side. the squares of the sides containing it by twice the rectangle contained by the side upon which, when... | |
| sir Thomas Dyke Acland (11th bart.) - 1858 - 270 pages
...straight line. What figure would be formed by placing two equilateral triangles base to base ? 31. Prove that any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side. Is the same proposition true of the angles of a triangle? Give reasons for your answer. 32. Prove geometrically... | |
| 1858 - 380 pages
...plane rectilineal angle, and show how to bisect one, that is, to divide it into two equal angles. 2. Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side. Is the same proposition true of the angles of a triangle? 3. What is a parallelogram? Prove that the... | |
| Elias Loomis - Conic sections - 1858 - 256 pages
...difference. Let two circumferences cut each other in the point A. Draw the radii CA, DA ; then, because any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side (Prop. VIII., B. I.), CD must be less than the sum of AD and AC. Also, DA must be less than the sum... | |
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