hypotenuse

The word hypotenuse in Greek originally meant “stretched against”.

Euclid’s Window

This is called a hypotenuse, which we learned yesterday in math.

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The hypotenuse already has a name, albeit a lengthy one, so we’ll keep that, except we will capitalize it to distinguish the name of our particular line, Hypotenuse, from the term the hypotenuse.

Euclid’s Window

The hypotenuse is the side opposite the right angle, and a right angle is a quarter turn.

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The hypotenuse is the side of a right triangle that is opposite the right angle.

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Whenever we have one side (a) of a right-angled triangle, and know the difference between the second side and the hypotenuse (which difference we will call b), then the length of the hypotenuse will be a² b

Amusements in Mathematics

I ask, trying to remember the high school math I would use to determine the mosquito's hypotenuse using a left shoulder, an elbow on the bar, and her hand on her knee as points A, B, C.

Smart Bar

This last, the hypotenuse, might be a diagonal brace nailed to a door, a siege ladder tipped against a fortification or a wooden beam propping up a wall.

All Hail the Hypotenuse

The result: The total count of tiles within the squares bordering the triangle's two shorter sides matched that within the square bordering the hypotenuse.

All Hail the Hypotenuse

Assuming you accept for a right triangle that the sum of the squares of the two sides equals the square of the hypotenuse …

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