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  • Perhaps I'll just be discovered and offered a movie contract in Hollywood, with Ingrid Bergman playing part of hypoteneuse.

    Vanity publishing ailbhe 2005

  • It is 686 feet long, 80 feet wide, and at each end forms a triangle, rectangular and isosceles, of which the legs are 80 feet and the hypoteneuse

    The Bloom of Monticello 1926

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