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Next , Let it be required to describe upon a given straight line AB ... THE OR SH IMILAR triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their ...
Next , Let it be required to describe upon a given straight line AB ... THE OR SH IMILAR triangles are to one another in the duplicate ratio of their ...
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PRO B. T. cut a given straight line in extreme and mean ratio . Let AB be the given straight line ; it is required to cut it in extreme and mean ratio .
PRO B. T. cut a given straight line in extreme and mean ratio . Let AB be the given straight line ; it is required to cut it in extreme and mean ratio .
Page 189
5 . treme and mean ratio in El . Which was to be done . f 3. def , 6 . Otherwise , Let AB be the given straight line ; it is required to cut it in extreme ...
5 . treme and mean ratio in El . Which was to be done . f 3. def , 6 . Otherwise , Let AB be the given straight line ; it is required to cut it in extreme ...
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... where mention is made of a given angle , though there neither is ... gene“ ral and summary idea of ratio to beginners , by premising “ this metaphysical ...
... where mention is made of a given angle , though there neither is ... gene“ ral and summary idea of ratio to beginners , by premising “ this metaphysical ...
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“ litude of ratios , is of the same kind , and can serve for no Book V. ... tho ' such a definition was as necessary and use* ful to be given in that book ...
“ litude of ratios , is of the same kind , and can serve for no Book V. ... tho ' such a definition was as necessary and use* ful to be given in that book ...
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Page 483 - The circumference of every circle is supposed to be divided into 360 equal parts, called degrees ; and each degree into 60 equal parts, called minutes ; and each minute into 60 equal parts, called seconds ; and these into thirds, &c.
Page 170 - If two triangles have one angle of the one equal to one angle of the other and the sides about these equal angles proportional, the triangles are similar.
Page 81 - THE straight line drawn at right angles to the diameter of a circle, from the extremity of...
Page 105 - DEF are likewise equal (13. i.) to two right angles ; therefore the angles AKB, AMB are equal to the angles DEG, DEF, of which AKB is equal to DEG ; wherefore the remaining angle AMB is equal to the remaining angle DEF.
Page 167 - AC the same multiple of AD, that AB is of the part which is to be cut off from it : join BC, and draw DE parallel to it : then AE is the part required to be cut off.
Page 10 - When a straight line standing on another straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the angles is called a right angle; and the straight line which stands on the other is called a perpendicular to it.
Page 62 - AB be the given straight line ; it is required to divide it into two parts, so that the rectangle contained by the whole, and one of the parts, shall be equal to the square of the other part.
Page 112 - To describe an equilateral and equiangular pentagon about a given circle. • Let ABCDE be the given circle; it is required to describe an equilateral and equiangular pentagon about the circle ABCDE. Let the angles of a pentagon, inscribed in the circle...
Page 200 - If two triangles have two angles of the one equal to two angles of the other, each to each, and one side equal to one side, viz. either the sides adjacent to the equal...
Page 38 - F, which is the common vertex of the triangles ; that is, together with four right angles. Therefore all the angles of the figure, together with four right angles, are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides.