 | William Mitchell Gillespie - Surveying - 1857 - 538 pages
...proposition of Geometry, that in any figure bounded by straight lines, the sum of all the interior angles is equal to twice as many right angles, as the figure has sides less two ; since the figure can be divided into that number of triangles. Hence this common rule. "... | |
 | Adrien Marie Legendre, Charles Davies - Geometry - 1857 - 442 pages
...triangles in the figure ; that is, as many times as there are sides, less two. But this product is equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides, less four right angles. Cor. 1. The sum of the interior angles in a quadrilateral is equal to two right... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Conic sections - 1858 - 256 pages
...that is, together with four right angles (Prop. V., Cor. 2). Therefore the angles of the polygon are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides, wanting four right angles. Cor. 1. The sum of the angles of a quadrilateral is four right angles ; of a pentagon,... | |
 | W. Davis Haskoll - Civil engineering - 1858 - 422 pages
...and in an irregular polygon they may be all unequal. The interior angles of a polygon are together equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides, less four. On this is based the theory of the traverse, of which further explanation will be given... | |
 | Euclides - 1860 - 142 pages
...a polygon be produced to meet, the sum of the salient angles thus formed, with eight right angles, will be equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides. Let ABCDE be a polygon, and let its sides produced meet in F, G, H, T, K ; then the sum of the salient... | |
 | Horatio Nelson Robinson - Geometry - 1860 - 470 pages
...triangles is equal to two right angles, (Th. 11) ; and the sum of the angles of all the triangles must be equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides. But the sum of these angles contains the sum of four right angles about the point p ; taking these... | |
 | Royal college of surgeons of England - 1860 - 332 pages
...two right angles ; and all the angles of any rectilineal figure, together with four right angles, are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides. 6. The opposite sides and angles of parallelograms are equal to one another, and the diameter bisects... | |
 | Euclides - 1860 - 288 pages
...of a polygon be produced to meet, the sum of the salient angles thus formed with eight right angles, will be equal to twice as many right angles as the figure lias sides. 16. If on two opposite sides of a rectangle semicircles be described lying on corresponding... | |
 | University of Madras - 1879 - 674 pages
...I. Prove that all the interior angles of any rectilineal figure together with four right angles, are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides. II. Prove the proposition to which the following is a corollary : The difference of the squares on... | |
 | Rolla Rouse - 1879 - 400 pages
...40 ... ... ... ... ... 103 The exterior and interior angles of an rectilineal figure, are together equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides, 41 ... 104 „ angles are together equal to four right angles, 42 ... ... ... ... „ The interior... | |
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All the interior angles of any rectilineal figure, together with four right angles, are equal to twice as many right angles as the figure has sides. 
