Right triangle two legs (the two sides that meet at a right angle). This can be stated in equation form as where "c" is the length of the hypotenuse, and "a" and "b" are the lengths of the remaining two sides. Pythagorean triples are integer values of "a, b, c" satisfying this equation. The radius of the incircle of a right triangle with legs "a" and "b" and hypotenuse "c" is The radius of the circumcircle is half the length of the hypotenuse, Thus the sum of the circumradius and the inradius is half the sum of the legs: One of the
Altitude (triangle) "dropping the altitude" at that vertex. It is a special case of orthogonal projection. Altitudes can be used in the computation of the area of a triangle: one half of the product of an altitude's length and its base's length equals the triangle's area. Thus, the longest altitude is perpendicular to the shortest side of the triangle. The altitudes are also related to the sides of the triangle through the trigonometric functions. In an isosceles triangle (a triangle with two congruent sides), the altitude having the incongruent side as its base will have the midpoint of that side as its