 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 626 pages
...equal to the angle at which the second is inclined to the first, and is measured in the same direction. Unity is a positive quantity arbitrarily assumed from...•which the values of other quantities are determined. If there be three quantities such thiit unity is to the first us the second to the third, the third... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 620 pages
...equal to the angle at which the second Is inclined to the first, and is measured in the same direction. Unity is a positive quantity arbitrarily assumed from...which the values of other quantities are determined. If there be three quantities such that unity is to the first us the second to the third, the third... | |
 | James Joseph Sylvester, James Whitbread Lee Glaisher - 1887 - 408 pages
...equal to the angle at which the second is inclined to the first, and is measured in the same direction. (17) DEF. Unity is a positive quantity arbitrarily assumed, from a comparison of which the values of other quantities are obtained. (18) DEF. If there be three quantities such that... | |
 | American Association for the Advancement of Science - 1898 - 624 pages
...equal to the angle at which the second is inclined to the first, and is measured In the same direction. Unity is a positive quantity arbitrarily assumed from...which the values of other quantities are determined. If there be three quantities such that unity is to the first us the second to the third, the third... | |
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... to the second the same ratio which the third has in length to the fourth, according to Euclid's definition ; and also the angle at which the fourth is inclined to the third is equal to the angle at which the second is inclined to the first, and is... 