Quotes About Hypotenuse

In right-angled triangles the square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the right angle.

Pretty soon three sleeping bags formed a triangle in the master bedroom. The father was the hypotenuse. The girl asked him to brush out her hair, which he did while the boy ate a tangerine, peeling it up close to his face, inhaling the mist. Then he held each segment to the light to find seeds. In his lap, cat paws fluttered like dreaming eyes. "What

The problem looks so straightforward because it is based on the one piece of mathematics that everyone can remember – Pythagoras' theorem: In a right-angled triangle the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides.

The sine of an angle is the ratio of the lengths of the side of the triangle opposite the angle and the hypotenuse.