| Electronic journals - 1884 - 672 pages
...appellation to Euclid, i. 6, is a modern error, and that the original asses' bridge was the proposition, " Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side," the demonstration being that an ass at A will walk along the third side AB to his provender... | |
| Janet Taylor - Nautical astronomy - 1851 - 674 pages
...plane triangle, it will cut the other two sides proportionally, [Eu. vi. 2.] or Theorem D, page 26. Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side [Eu. i. 20.] or Theorem IX. page 19. From this it follows also, that the difference of any two... | |
| 1858 - 422 pages
...When an assertion relating to the mind is proved by an induction as wide as that on which we believe that any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third, we have a right to suppose it true for us ; we feel it to be true by our intuition, our experience... | |
| Euclides - 1852 - 48 pages
...the side is greater than, equal to, or less than the angle opposite to the other. PEOP. XX. ТНЕOB. Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side. In the triangle ABC, the sides л в and в c „ are greater than AC, the sides вc and CA are... | |
| Euclides - 1852 - 152 pages
...another, the side opposite that angle is greater than the side opposite the other.] PROP. XX. THEOR. Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side. Let ABC be a triangle; any two sides of it together are greater than the third side, viz. the... | |
| sir George Ramsay (9th bart.) - 1853 - 282 pages
...not contained in the definition of the name ; though it constantly accompanies the thing signified. That any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side, is always true ; but the truth is not comprised in the meaning of the word triangle; nay, three... | |
| Euclides - Geometry - 1853 - 176 pages
...therefore a С is greater than a b. Wherefore the greater angle, &c. QED PROPOSITION XX. — THEOREM. Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side. LET ab С be a triangle ; any two sides of it together are greater than the third side, viz.... | |
| Euclides - 1853 - 146 pages
...AB ; therefore 3. AC is greater than AB. Wherefore the greater angle, &c. QED PROP. XX. — THEOREM. Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side. Let ABC be a triangle ; any two sides of it together are greater than the third side, viz. the... | |
| Royal Military Academy, Woolwich - Mathematics - 1853 - 400 pages
...AB ; therefore AC is greater than AB. "Wherefore the greater angle, etc. QED PROPOSITION XX. THEOB. Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side. Produce BA to the point D, and make (3. i.) AD equal to AC, and join DC. Because DA is equal... | |
| Popular educator - 1852 - 1272 pages
...D. Therefore, if from a point without a given straight line, &c. QE.D. PROPOSITION XX.— THEOREM. Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side. In fig. 20, let ABO be a triangle; MI. SO. any two of its sides are together greater than the... | |
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