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    In geometry, a hypotenuse is the side of a right triangle opposite the right angle. It is the longest side of any such triangle; the two other shorter...
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    turn or 90 degrees). The side opposite to the right angle is called the hypotenuse (side c {\displaystyle c} in the figure). The sides adjacent to the right...
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    right triangle. It states that the area of the square whose side is the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle) is equal to the sum of the areas of...
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    side of the triangle (the hypotenuse), and the cosine is the ratio of the length of the adjacent leg to that of the hypotenuse. For an angle θ {\displaystyle...
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  • a h {\displaystyle \sin \theta ={\frac {\mathrm {opposite} }{\mathrm {hypotenuse} }}={\frac {a}{h}}} cos ⁡ θ = a d j a c e n t h y p o t e n u s e = b...
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    the hypotenuse of the prior right triangle (with length the square root of 2) and the other leg having length of 1; the length of the hypotenuse of this...
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    vertex angle. In a right triangle, the altitude drawn to the hypotenuse c divides the hypotenuse into two segments of lengths p and q. If we denote the length...
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    the angle to the hypotenuse. sin ⁡ A = opposite hypotenuse = a h . {\displaystyle \sin A={\frac {\textrm {opposite}}{\textrm {hypotenuse}}}={\frac {a}{h}}...
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    the problem of finding equal products of a non-hypotenuse side and the hypotenuse, ( a 2 − b 2 ) ( a 2 + b 2 ) = ( c 2 − d 2 ) ( c 2 + d 2 )...
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    13x5 if it were, because what appears to be the hypotenuse is bent. In other words, the "hypotenuse" does not maintain a consistent slope, even though...
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