To find the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle, use the Pythagorean theorem. Square the base and the height. Add the two squares, and calculate the square root of the sum of the two squares. You need to know the base and the height of the triangle to complete this task.
Where did aluminum get its name? Aluminum got its name from Sir Humphry Davy, he named it after the Latin word Alumen meaning bitter taste . That is why the element Aluminum is symbolized as Al in when look â¦ ing at the periodic table of elements.
Although everyone knows that Apple Computer was named after the namesake fruit, Steve Jobs has never talked about where the name came from â until now (AFAIK). It was named during one of his fruitarian diets, Walter Isaacsonâs new biography of Jobs reveals. On the naming of Apple, he said he was âon one of my fruitarian diets.â He said he had just come back from an apple farm, and thought the name sounded âfun, spirited and not intimidating.â.