 | John Playfair - Euclid's Elements - 1846 - 332 pages
...difference between either of them and 45°. PROP. IV. THEOR. The sum of any two sides of a triangle is to their difference, as the tangent of half the sum of the angles opposite to those sides, to the tangent of half their difference. Let ABC be any plane triangle ; CA+AB... | |
 | Nathaniel Bowditch - 1846 - 864 pages
...: DH : AF or HB ; that is, AD, the sum of the legs, AC and СЁ, is to AE, their difference, as DH, the tangent of half the sum of the angles at the base (the radius teing AH), is to HB, the tangent of half the difference of the same angles (to the same... | |
 | Roswell Park - Best books - 1847 - 632 pages
...oblique angled triangle, the sides are proportional to the sines of the opposite angles : also, the sum of any two sides is to their difference, as the tangent of the half sum of ihe two opposite angles, is to the tangent of their half difference : and finally,... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Logarithms - 1848 - 153 pages
...THE SUM OF THE OPPOSITE ANGLES ; TO THE TANGENT OF HALF THEIR DIFFERENCE. Thus, the sum of AB and AC, is to their difference ; as the tangent of half the sum of the angles ACB and ABC, to the tangent of half then- difference. Demonstration. Extend CA to G, making AG equal... | |
 | Charles Davies - Trigonometry - 1849 - 384 pages
...2 (/i 2 +c 2 —a 2 ) = R« x -R- x " * Hence THEOREM V. In every rectilineal triangle, the sum of two sides is to their difference as the tangent of half the sum of the angles opposite those sides, to the tangent of half their difference. * For. AB : BC : : sin C : sin A (Theorem... | |
 | Jeremiah Day - Geometry - 1851 - 418 pages
...equal to the sum, and FH to the difference of AC and AB. And by theorem II, (Art. 144.) the sum of the sides is to their difference ; as the tangent of half the sum of the opposite angles, to the tangent of half their difference. Therefore, R : tan (ACH— 45°) : : tan... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Mathematics - 1851 - 96 pages
...Demonstrate that radius is to the tangent of the difference between this angle and half a right angle, as the tangent of half the sum of the angles at the base of the triangle, is to the tangent of half their difference, To obtain that certain angle, we must... | |
 | Charles William Hackley - Trigonometry - 1851 - 524 pages
...: tan £ (A + B) : tan ^ (A — B) That is to say, the sum of two of the sides of a plane triangle is to their difference as the tangent of half the sum of the opposite angles is to the tangent of half their difference. 76 This proportion is employed when two... | |
 | William Chauvenet - 1852 - 268 pages
...proposition is therefore general in its application.* 118. The sum of any two sides of a plane triangle is to their difference as the tangent of half the sum of the opposite angles is to the tangent of half their difference. For, by the preceding article, a : b =... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - Geometry - 1852 - 436 pages
...AC :: sin 0 : sin jR THEOEEM II. In any triangle, the sum of the two sides containing either angle, is to their difference, as the tangent of half the sum of the two other angles, to the tangent of half their difference. 22. Let ACB be a triangle: then will AJ3... | |
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In any plane triangle, the sum of any two sides is to their difference as the tangent of half the sum of the opposite angles is to the tangent of half their difference. 
