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... duplicate ratio of the two right lines , there being no demonstration of that important property in all the Elements . By means of that proposition the nineteenth proposition of the sixth book of Euclid , viz . that similar ... one another in ...
... duplicate ratio of the two right lines , there being no demonstration of that important property in all the Elements . By means of that proposition the nineteenth proposition of the sixth book of Euclid , viz . that similar ... one another in ...
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... Similar triangles are to each other as the squares of their homologous sides . Let abc and ade be two si- milar triangles ; then will the triangle ... one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides ( 6 Euclid 62 A NEW ...
... Similar triangles are to each other as the squares of their homologous sides . Let abc and ade be two si- milar triangles ; then will the triangle ... one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides ( 6 Euclid 62 A NEW ...
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Joseph Denison. the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides ( 6 Euclid , 19 ) ... one another ( 5 Euclid , 11 ) , the ratio of the triangle abc to the ... triangles abc and ade are to each other as the squares of the homologous sides bc ...
Joseph Denison. the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides ( 6 Euclid , 19 ) ... one another ( 5 Euclid , 11 ) , the ratio of the triangle abc to the ... triangles abc and ade are to each other as the squares of the homologous sides bc ...
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Page 62 - Similar triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their homologous sides.
Page 5 - The areas of two similar triangles are to one another as the squares of their homologous or similarly situated sides (fig.
Page 41 - PROP. XV. THEOR. Magnitudes have the same ratio to one another which their equimultiples have. Let AB be the same multiple of C, that DE is of F: C shall be to F, as AB to DE.
Page 63 - Ratios that are the same to the same ratio, are the same to one another.
Page 39 - F is of B, and that magnitudes have the same ratio to one another which their equimultiples have; (v.
Page 13 - PQ the given straight line, and A the given point in it. It Is required to describe a circle to touch ihe 0 DEB, and also to touch PQ at A.
Page 56 - In any triangle the square on a side opposite to an acute angle is less than the sum of the squares on the sides which contain the acute angle ; (e}. In an obtuse-angled triangle the square on the side subtending the obtuse angle is greater than the sum of the squares on the sides containing...
Page 57 - PROPOSITION 20. In a circle the angle at the centre is double of the angle at the circumference, when the angles have the same circumference as base.
Page 63 - CE equal to the ratio of the square of AB to the square of AD.
Page 61 - And in continued proportions, the square of the mean is equal to the rectangle contained by the extremes.