Properties
Orthographic projections:
- The length of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the lengths of the orthographic projections of both catheti. And
- The square of the length of a cathetus equals the product of the lengths of its orthographic projection on the hypotenuse times the length of this.
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- b² = a · m
- c² = a · n
- Also, the length of a cathetus b is the proportional mean between the lengths of its projection m and the hypotenuse a.
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- a/b = b/m
- a/c = c/n
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