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In general, no it is not true. Let's think this through algebraically, draw an isosceles triangle such that the remaining side is vertical, and label the equal sides x, what you propose is that the sum of the equal sides equals the square root of the remaining side. Therefore the square root of the remaining side is 2x, making the remaining side a length of 4x2.

Now, let's bisect the isosceles into two right angle triangles so that the hypotenuse is of length x, and the vertical side is of length 2x2. Label the horizontal side whose length we don't know, y. Using basic trig we get that y2=x2-4x4 and since y can not be negative, your proposition fails for all cases where x is 0.5 or greater.

In other words, the two equal sides can only equal the square root of the remaining side when the length of one of the equal sides is between 0 and 0.5, and even then you need the right angle to be formed between the equal sides to make the other side long enough. For example, if x is 0.49999999999999 you will need an angle just slightly less than 180 degrees. If x is 0.0000000000001 you will need an angle just slightly above 0 degrees. For an angle of 90 degrees x will need to be approximately 0.35355339

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