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What does hypotenuse mean?

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Noun
  1. (geometry) The side of a right triangle opposite the right angle.
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Take a right triangle with a square on its hypotenuse and rescale both of them by the same amount, as if on a photocopier.
The square of the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the legs.
In fact it is the length of the hypotenuse of a right angled triangle which had sides of length one.
With sides 1 and 4, a right-angled triangle has hypotenuse 10 and, although 10 is not a Fibonacci number it is twice a Fibonacci number.
The area of a right triangle is 150 square feet, and its hypotenuse is 25 feet.
Through that point draw a horizontal line to the intersection with the hypotenuse.

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