"Hypothenuse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... (Numa, chap. ii.) that when the sacred fire happened to go out, there was employed for relighting it a brass mirror that had the form of a cone generated by the hypothenuse of an isosceles rectangular triangle revolving around one of the sides ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883 • Various
... a gown that lay in an iridescent avalanche of sequins about her feet, her foot, tilted to an unbelievable hypothenuse off a cloth-of-silver heel, beat a small and twinkling tattoo, her fingers tattooing, too, along ...
— Gaslight Sonatas • Fannie Hurst |
