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Page 495 - The angle in a semicircle is a right angle; the angle in a segment greater than a semicircle is less than a right angle; and the angle in a segment less than a semicircle is greater than a right angle.
Page 520 - Therefore, in obtuse-angled triangles, &c. QED PROP. XIII. THEOREM. In every triangle, the square of the side subtending either of the acute angles is less than the squares of the sides containing that angle, by twice the rectangle contained by either of these sides, and the straight line intercepted between the perpendicular let fall upon it from the opposite angle, and the acute angle.
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| Title | Parliamentary Papers, Volume 22 |
| Author | Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons |
| Publisher | H.M. Stationery Office, 1879 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 21 Dec 2007 |
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