legs

The legs of a right triangle are the two sides which are not the hypotenuse.

Above: Various right triangles, with legs in red.

Note that there are no legs for scalene or non-right isosceles triangles, just as there is no notion of hypotenuse for these special triangles. An exception to this is that the two equal sides of an isosceles triangle may occasionally be referred to as “legs”, but this is uncommon.

Title	legs
Canonical name	Legs
Date of creation	2013-03-22 12:06:02
Last modified on	2013-03-22 12:06:02
Owner	akrowne (2)
Last modified by	akrowne (2)
Numerical id	8
Author	akrowne (2)
Entry type	Definition
Classification	msc 51-00