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Page 10 - When a straight line standing on another straight line makes the adjacent angles equal to one another, each of the angles is called a right angle ; and the straight line which stands on the other is called a perpendicular to it.
Page 29 - A circle is a plane figure contained by one line, which is called the circumference, and is such that all straight lines drawn from a certain point within the figure to the circumference, are equal to one another.
Page 23 - RULE. From half the sum of the three sides, subtract each side separately; multiply the half sum and the three remainders together, and the square root of the product will be the area required.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Mensuration for elementary and middle class schools Collins' sch. series |
| Author | Henry Lewis (M.A.) |
| Published | 1875 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 7 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 85 pages |
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