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Definition of Hypotenuses
1. hypotenuse [n] - See also: hypotenuse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hypotenuses
Literary usage of Hypotenuses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Descriptive Catalogue of the Sanskrit Astronomical Manuscripts Preserved by David Edwin Pingree (2003)
"... the maximum manda equation is 690'=11;30° at 9=81° and 10=90°; and the extreme
hypotenuses are 99 and 20. Table of the equations of Mercury. ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1871)
"The hypotenuses, legs, and angles P and Z of the two right-angled triangles of
the preceding diagram are each of them positive and less than 90°, ..."
3. A Supplement to the Elements of Euclid by Daniel Cresswell (1825)
"If any number of triangles have a right angle for their common vertical angle,
and have equal hypotenuses, the locus of the bisections of the several ..."
4. Mathematical Questions and Solutions by W. J. C. Miller (1874)
"Mr. Sang, at the end of his Memoir, gives a list of Pythagorean triangles, arranged
according to hypotenuses up to 1105, 1073,264. ..."
5. Mathematical Questions and Solutions, from the "Educational Times": With by W. J. C. Miller (1874)
"20, 21 of this volume) from Mr. Wilkinson's very elegant theorem with regard to
the formation of right-angled triangles whose sides and hypotenuses are ..."
6. The first six and the eleventh and twelfth books of Euclid's Elements; with by Euclides (1845)
"If two right-angled triangles ABC, DEF have their hypotenuses AB, DE equal, ...
If the hypotenuses AB, DE be equal, but BC, a leg of one of them, ..."
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