The sides of right-angled triangles are labelled opposite, hypotenuse and adjacent ... as the three trigonometric ratios because they show how large one side is compared to the other based ...

Two students who discovered a seemingly impossible proof to the Pythagorean theorem in 2022 have wowed the math community ...

What it means is that in a right triangle (where one angle equals 90°), the sum of the squares of two sides equals the square of the hypotenuse (the longest side).