My son has a maths trivia / riddle sheet to complete and one question 
has us all stumped.

The clue is "R is the D between the L and H S"

We have to provide the full phrase.  An example is "An I T has 2 E S" 
for which the answer is "An Isosceles Triangle has 2 Equal Sides".

I came up with the following attempts:

"Radius is the Distance between the ..."

or

"Remainder is the Difference between the ..."

or

"Rate is the Differential between the ..."

,but can't fill in L and H S.


Any ideas?

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Paul Fuller <pgf### [at] optusnetcomau> wrote:
> My son has a maths trivia / riddle sheet to complete and one question
> has us all stumped.
>
> The clue is "R is the D between the L and H S"
>
> Any ideas?

H for hypotenuse?

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On 04/09/2012 06:08 AM, Paul Fuller wrote:
> My son has a maths trivia / riddle sheet to complete and one question
> has us all stumped.
>
> The clue is "R is the D between the L and H S"

FWIW, this seems to me more like an exercise in English language riddles 
than anything actually to do with mathematics. :-P

R and D could denote several quite plausible combinations. However, I'm 
stumped for anything that would fit L and H S.

Nemesis offered H for hypotenuse, and indeed H S as hypotenuse squared 
seems plausible. But then that doesn't fit with anything else for the 
rest of the sentence.

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