 | Isaac Watts - 1801 - 342 էջ
...ploughman that the three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles, or that the square of the hypotenuse of 'a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the two sides; the ploughman, who has but confused ideas of these things, may firmly... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - 1822 - 394 էջ
...square described on BC : hence we have (AB+BC) x (AB — BC) = AB2 — BC*. LFGI E JJ 57 PROPOSITION XI. THEOREM. The square described on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equivalent to the sum of the squares described on the two sides. Let the triangle ABC be rightangled... | |
 | Henry Malden - 1830 - 166 էջ
...arithmetic, mathematics, and astronomy. He discovered the proof of the proposition, that the square en the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other sides. He knew that the sun was the centre round which the earth and other... | |
 | Thomas Perronet Thompson - 1833 - 168 էջ
...demonstrated. PROPOSITION XLVIII. THEOREM. — If the square described on one of the sides of a triangle, be equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides of it; the angle made by those two sides is a right angle. Let ABC be a triangle, which is such that... | |
 | 1837 - 490 էջ
...square root ; but no figure or explanation is given, excepting the following foot-note : " The square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle, is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides." It should be represented as under : OLASGOW. 44 miles. EDINBURGH.... | |
 | 1837 - 488 էջ
...square root ; but no figure or explanation is given, excepting the following foot-note : " The square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle, is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides." It should be represented as under : GLASGOW. 44 miles. EDINBURGH.... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre - 1838 - 372 էջ
...PROPOSITION XI. THEOREM. The square described on the hypothenuse of a right angled triangle is equivalent to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides. • Let the triangle ABC be right angled at A. Having described squares on the three sides, let fall... | |
 | Charles Davies - 1840 - 262 էջ
...degrees, and 4=90 degrees. 10. In every right angled triangle, the square described on the hypothenuse, is equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides. Thus, if ABC be a right angled triangle, right angled at C, then will the square D described on AB... | |
 | Charles Harrison Lyon - 1842 - 156 էջ
...only to find the hypotenuse of the right-angled triangle BO E. Now it is well known that the square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. If then we take twice the square of 25, which is the length in... | |
 | Scotland free church, gen. assembly - 1847 - 554 էջ
...it makes the alternate angles equal. 2. If the square described on one of the sides of a triangle be equal to the sum of the squares described on the other two sides, these sides contain a right angle. 3. Divide a given line into two parts, so that the rectangle contained... | |
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Pythagoras' theorem states that the square of the length of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the lengths of the other two sides. 
