hypotenuse

• “The word hypotenuse in Greek originally meant “stretched against”.”

  Simon & Schuster: Euclid’s Window

• “This is called a hypotenuse, which we learned yesterday in math.”

  Simon & Schuster: Camo Girl

• “The hypotenuse already has a name, albeit a lengthy one, so we’ll keep that, except we will capitalize it to distinguish the name of our particular line, Hypotenuse, from the term the hypotenuse.”

  Simon & Schuster: Euclid’s Window

• “The hypotenuse is the side opposite the right angle, and a right angle is a quarter turn.”

  Simon & Schuster: HERE’S LOOKING AT EUCLID

• “The hypotenuse is the side of a right triangle that is opposite the right angle.”

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• “Whenever we have one side (a) of a right-angled triangle, and know the difference between the second side and the hypotenuse (which difference we will call b), then the length of the hypotenuse will be a² b”

  Amusements in Mathematics

• “I ask, trying to remember the high school math I would use to determine the mosquito's hypotenuse using a left shoulder, an elbow on the bar, and her hand on her knee as points A, B, C.”

  Fictionaut: Smart Bar

• “This last, the hypotenuse, might be a diagonal brace nailed to a door, a siege ladder tipped against a fortification or a wooden beam propping up a wall.”

  The Wall Street Journal: All Hail the Hypotenuse

• “The result: The total count of tiles within the squares bordering the triangle's two shorter sides matched that within the square bordering the hypotenuse.”

  The Wall Street Journal: All Hail the Hypotenuse

• “Assuming you accept for a right triangle that the sum of the squares of the two sides equals the square of the hypotenuse …”

  Blind Faith?

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