 | Sir Henry Edward Landor Thuillier - Surveying - 1851 - 826 pages
...hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle may be found by having the other two sides ; thus, the square root of the sum of the squares of the base and perpendicular, will be the hypothenuse. Cor. 2. Having the hypothenuse and one side given to find the other; the square root of the difference... | |
 | Charles Guilford Burnham - 1857 - 342 pages
...311. — PROB. VII. The base and perpendicular given, to find the hypotenuse. RULE. The square root of the sum of the squares of the base and perpendicular will be the hypotenuse. This rule is illustrated by the following figure. If the base of a right-angled triangle... | |
 | Charles Guilford Burnham - Arithmetic - 1857 - 328 pages
...hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the base and perpendicular; therefore, the square root of the sum of the squares of the base and perpendicular, will be the hypotenuse, and the square root of the difference of the square of the hypotenuse, and either of the... | |
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KCML, the sum of the two parallelograms or square BCMH ; therefore the sum of the squares on AB and AC is equal to the square on EC. QED Cor. 1; The hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle may be found by... 
