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Let us consider a right angled triangle.

In the triange, angle CAB is 90.

The base is AB , the height or altitude is, AC and the third side BC is called hypotenuse.

According to Pythagoras theorem ,if the length of two sides are given , the third side can be calculated as,


\text{Hypotenuse}^2=base^2+altitude^2

This is Pythagoras theorem. So in the drwan triangle we have,


\begin{gathered} BC^2=AB^2+AC^2 \\ BC=\sqrt[]{AB^2+AC^2} \end{gathered}

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