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  • Based upon the design principles of Andrea Palladio, Jefferson constructed the all-brick home in the form of a perfect, equal-sided octagon, which appealed to his love of mathematics.

    The Last Patriot Brad Thor 2008

  • Of the two kinds of triangles the equal-sided has but one form, the unequal-sided has an infinite variety of forms; and there is none more beautiful than that which forms the half of an equilateral triangle.

    Timaeus 2006

  • Long practice and training, begun in the schools and continued in the experience of daily life, enable us to discriminate at once by the sense of touch, between the angles of an equal-sided Triangle, Square, and Pentagon; and I need not say that the brainless vertex of an acute-angled Isosceles is obvious to the dullest touch.

    Flatland: a romance of many dimensions 2006

  • There had been four distinct symbols, each framed in an equal-sided box.

    Blackout Phaedra M. Weldon 2005

  • In a welcome release for his temper, he kicked three basket-sided holes in the snow at the edge of the ice, one at each point of an imaginary equal-sided triangle laid on the pond, then divided the class into two teams.

    Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003

  • In a welcome release for his temper, he kicked three basket-sided holes in the snow at the edge of the ice, one at each point of an imaginary equal-sided triangle laid on the pond, then divided the class into two teams.

    Exile's Valor Lackey, Mercedes 2003

  • To cut the breast and wing quarter in half, cut the breast with your scissors so that it is an equal-sided triangle.

    THE TANTE MARIE’S COOKING SCHOOL COOKBOOK MARY RISLEY 2003

  • To cut the breast and wing quarter in half, cut the breast with your scissors so that it is an equal-sided triangle.

    THE TANTE MARIE’S COOKING SCHOOL COOKBOOK MARY RISLEY 2003

  • To cut the breast and wing quarter in half, cut the breast with your scissors so that it is an equal-sided triangle.

    THE TANTE MARIE’S COOKING SCHOOL COOKBOOK MARY RISLEY 2003

  • _Equilateral_, on the other hand, is borrowed from the Latin, but it is merely the Latin translation of the Greek ισοπλευρος {isopleuros}, _equal-sided_.

    The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield Various

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