A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I

book in which two sides of a triangle are pronounced _equal_ to the

third.[462] So they are, in the sense in which the word is used in complete algebra; in which A + B = C makes A, B, C, three sides of a triangle, and declares that going over A and B, one after the other, is equivalent, in change of place, to going over C at once. My critic, who might, if he pleased, have objected t...