 | Edward Harrison - 2003 - 366 pagine
...relativity spring from this fact alone. Most of us are familiar with the Pythagorean theorem: the square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of its two sides. There is a triangle in spacetime. Common sense insists that the hypotenuse... | |
 | Susan Ball, Sue Briggs, Margaret Mackenzie - 2003 - 212 pagine
...9, 16 and 25 units 2 . 25 = 9 + 16 This is known as Pythagoras' theorem and it states: the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides. Given the areas of two of the squares, we can calculate the area... | |
 | Catherine Wilson - 2003 - 288 pagine
...Consider the following variant: I know that T is a right-angled triangle I doubt that the square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides I know that it does not belong to the essence of T that its hypotenuse... | |
 | J.H. Woods - 2004 - 416 pagine
...Pythagorean Theorem is without pedigree, its epistemic provenance is shorne. He knows that the square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the their two sides; but he does not know how he knows this. Though tacitness is not... | |
 | Robin Howat, Graham Meikle, Doug Brown, Ruth Murray, Ken Nisbet - 2004 - 278 pagine
...-» B c the saving in distance by the tunnel. RECAP Pythagoras' theorem states that: the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the two shorter sides. Area A = Area B + Area C => a 2 = b 2 + c 2 Calculating the hypotenuse... | |
 | Gerald Vision - 2009 - 322 pagine
...such-and-such an act is morally right, or that this substance contains hydrogen atoms, or that the square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the square of its other two sides. Then our two questions are as follows: Are the straightforward propositions... | |
 | David Capewell - 2004 - 294 pagine
...problems. You prove a statement is true by arguing from known facts. The area of the square drawn on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the areas of the squares drawn on the other two sides. Pythagorean triple 81. 1 A Pythagorean triple... | |
 | Jonathan Harrison - 2002 - 416 pagine
...things were right in some way other than by memory, just as I can only remember that the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the 1 See GJ Warnock, 'Verification and the Use of Language,' in A Modern Introduction to Philosophy,... | |
 | Robyn Arianrhod - 2005 - 350 pagine
...geometry, the Pythagoreans are famous for Pythagoras's theorem about right-angled triangles: 'The square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the two adjacent sides' - a result which mathematicians of other cultures had already... | |
 | Dennis Urbans - 2005 - 286 pagine
...(mathematician): Described as the first pure mathematician. The Theorem of Pythagoras states that the square of the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Film and TV Personalities: Pamela Anderson, Bridgette Bardot, Kim... | |
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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. 
