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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.
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"legs" is owned by akrowne.
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Cross-references: triangles, isosceles triangles, scalene, hypotenuse, sides, right triangle
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This is version 4 of legs, born on 2002-01-04, modified 2004-02-05.
Object id is 1205, canonical name is Legs.
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![\includegraphics[scale=.72]{legs.eps}](http://images.planetmath.org:8080/cache/objects/1205/l2h/img1.png "\includegraphics[scale=.72]{legs.eps}")