 | Frederick Overman - Building - 1851 - 452 pages
...angle from the middle of the hypothenuse is equal to half the hypothenuse. In a right-angled triangle, the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the two sides. If an angle be bisected by a right line,' which cuts the base, the segments... | |
 | Benjamin Greenleaf - 1851 - 332 pages
...side AC the hypolhenuse, and the angle at B is a right angle. ART. 272. In every right angled triangle the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the base and perpendicular, as shown by the following diagram. It will be seen by examining... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1852 - 436 pages
...a right-angled triangle may be found by either of the four last cases ; or, if two of the sides are given, by means of the property that the square of the hypothenuse is equivalent to the sum of the squares of the two other sides. Or the parts may be found by Theorems... | |
 | Thomas Kentish - Geometrical drawing - 1852 - 258 pages
...29, and raise a perpendicular BC = 17. Join AB; apply it to the scale, and it will be found 33.6. For the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the base and perpendicular. It is required to find the diameter of a copper, that, being... | |
 | Charles Davies - Navigation - 1852 - 412 pages
...right-angled triangle may be found by either of the four last cases ; or, if two of the sides are giv«n, by means of the property that the square of the hypothenuse is equivalent to the sum of the squares of the two other sides. Or the parts may be found by Theorems... | |
 | Adolfo de Castro y Rossi - 1853 - 290 pages
...triangle rectangle;' " or with an Englishman who reads the same thing in his own language thus : " ' The square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the two other sides of a rectangle triangle! " Thirdly, those who read in a well-known tongue,... | |
 | Charles Davies - Geometry - 1854 - 436 pages
...right•angled triangle may be found by either of the four last cases ; or, if two of the sides are given, by means of the property that the square of the hypothenuse is equivalent to the sum of the squares of the two other sides. Or the parts may be found by Theorems... | |
 | Thomas H. Palmer - Arithmetic - 1854 - 368 pages
...each other. The side AC, opposite the right angle, is called the hypothenuse. It is shown by Geometry, that the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. It follows that the difference between the square of the hypothenuse... | |
 | Charles Davies - Navigation - 1854 - 446 pages
...a right-angled triangle may be found by either of the four last cases ; or, if two of the sides are given, by means of the property that the square of the hypothenuse is equivalent to the sum of the squares of the two other sides. Or the parts may be found by Theorems... | |
 | Thomas Lund - Geometry - 1854 - 520 pages
...can be used sometimes conveniently for constructing a right angle. For from (43, Part I.) we know, that the square of the hypothenus'e is equal to the sum of the squares of the other sides in a right-angled triangle. Take, then, 12 links of the chain, and having... | |
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... the square of the hypothenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. 
