 | Robert Édouard Moritz - Mathematics - 1914 - 436 pages
...nor thirty centuries, affect the clearness, or the charm, of Geometrical truths. Such a theorem as " the square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the sides " is as dazzlingly beautiful now as it was in the day when Pythagoras... | |
 | Franklin Sherman Hoyt, Harriet E. Peet - Arithmetic - 1915 - 344 pages
...Compare the area of the square upon the hypotenuse with the sum of the areas of the other two squares. The square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. [Use pencil only when needed.] 1 . Draw a triangle with... | |
 | Lewis Worthington Smith - American prose literature - 1916 - 312 pages
...use of words that are practically without connotation is the safer. A man who is demonstrating that the square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides must use terms that do not fluctuate. On the other hand,... | |
 | John Joseph Toohey - Logic - 1918 - 264 pages
...each other or with the formal object of another idea; eg "The whole is greater than any of its parts;" "The square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the two other sides ;" "The triangle is not round." An a posteriori judgment... | |
 | Franklin Sherman Hoyt, Harriet E. Peet - Arithmetic - 1920 - 386 pages
...Compare the area of the square upon the hy-potenuse with the sum of the areas of the other two squares. The square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. [Use pencil only when needed.) i. Draw a triangle with... | |
 | George Pierce Baker, Henry Barrett Huntington - Debates and debating - 1925 - 638 pages
...too important and significant to be disregarded in such a treatise as this. in geometry, — as that the square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Here all the explanation of truth given, that is, all... | |
 | Franklin Sherman Hoyte, Harriet E. Peet - Arithmetic - 1927 - 440 pages
...Compare the area of the square upon the hypotenuse with the sum of the areas of the other two squares. The square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. [Use pencil only when needed] 1 . Draw a triangle with... | |
 | Gerald White Johnson - Presidents - 1927 - 346 pages
...the simple argument is bound to win. It is true that two and two make four. It is equally true that the square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. But one hundred per cent of the people understand the... | |
 | Voltaire - 1901 - 662 pages
...the relation between a cone and a sphere is not of the sect of Archimedes; and he who perceived that the square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides, is not in consequence a Pythagorean. When we say that... | |
 | Farrington Daniels - Chemistry - 1928 - 332 pages
...S = V(*2 - xi)2 + (2/. - 2/0* This relation follows at once from the familiar rule of geometry that the square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Figure 10 makes the reason clear. GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION... | |
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The square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. 
