Smith, David Eugene, 1860-1944 · Boston, New York [etc.] Ginn and Company · leaf 260
LEADING PROPOSITIONS OF BOOK III 249 diminished by the product of the segments made by thebisector upon the third side of the triangle. This proposition enables us to compute the length of abisector of a triangle if the lengths of the sides are known. For, in this figure, let a — 3, b = 5, and c =… … •• - =v6^. = |V105 = 2.5 + . TheoPvEM. ira «>i?/ triangle the product of two sides isequal to the product of the diameter of the circumscribedcircle by the altitude upon the third side. This enables us, after the Pythagorean Theorem hasbeen studied, to compute the length of the diameter ofthe…
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