...each side of the least straight line A D. Therefore, if from a point without a given straight line, &c. QE.D. PROPOSITION XX.— THEOREM. Any two sides...triangle are together greater than the third side. In fig. 20, let ABO be a triangle; MI. SO. any two of its sides are together greater than the third...

...are not equally important. Two and two are four, is a truth ; the sun rises and sets, is a truth ; any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side, is a truth ; the square of the hypothenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares...

...straight lines can be drawn to the given straight line, one upon , each side of the shortest line. : PROP. XX. THEOREM. Any two sides of a triangle are together...than the third side. Let ABC be a triangle : any two of its sides are together greater than the third side ; viz., the sides BA, AC, are greater than the...

...excluded. The circumstances here pointed out, are nothing more than what have all along been assumed, that any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third : but it thus appears that the Algebraical Formulae are sufficient of themselves to determine the consistency...

...the true length : this follows from Euclid's 20th proposition of the first book, which proves that any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third. Also, the frequent repetition of errors in the coincidence of the extremities of the chain with the...

...this proposition, — Any two sides of a triangle are together equal to the third, — as of this, — Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third; yet the first of these is impossible. Perhaps it will be said, that, though you understand the meaning...

...opposite the greater of the two AB, AC, or, in other words, AC is greater than A B. XXI.— EUCLID I. 20. Any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side. Let ABC be a triangle (Fig. 14), take any side BA and produce it at one extremity to D,- making AD equal to AC the adjacent...

...angles at the base, prove that the locus of the vertex is a hyperbola, and find its asymptotes. 1. ANY two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side. If a polygon with only salient angles be situated inside another polygon, the perimeter of the former...

...of its conclusions. They who can deny them, * Jxdtptndent for June 28, 1855. may as well deny that any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third side, or the truth of any other demonstrable proposition.* What was the peculiar characteristic nature of...

...restriction is plain, when we consider that he had previously proved in his Prop. XX., Book I. that any two sides of a triangle are together greater than the third. This, however, is manifest without demonstration, if we adopt Archimedes's definición of a straight...