• मुक्त
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    136 months ago

    Isn’t this common knowledge that the Indians knew the theorem well before Pythagorus?

      • मुक्त
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        16 months ago

        Given what other comments are saying about him (cult leader appropriating works of others), I think the west/europe would do well not to associate themselves with him.

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      56 months ago

      Yes and also I have a hard time believing the builders if the great pyramid didn’t understand it in some capacity either. They just didn’t have symbolic algebra to express it the way we do .

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        6 months ago

        There are mentions of pythagorian triplets in pyramid era Egypt, and in all fairness, ancient Greeks didn’t have symbolic algebra either - it is a fairly recent form of expression.

        And, as far as I know, ancient Indians were actually writing mathematical expressions in full prose form - word problems et al.