The sum of the squares of the two legs of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse. Plane Geometry - Page 162 by George Albert Wentworth - 1899 - 256 pages Full view - About this book
...high school trigonometry. The Pythagorean theorem states that the sum of the squares of the two sides of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse. This means that the line running diagonally across a 5 meter square will be 7.07 meters. Rather than...
The sum of the squares of the two legs of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse. 
