• @elegantgoat1
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    51 year ago

    And not a right triangle in sight. I forget, did Pythagoras develop Pythagorean theorem or the law of sines?

    • MxM111
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      121 year ago

      Bottom right, the 3x3, 4x4 and 5x5 checker boards forms Pythagorean Triple Triangle.

    • IninewCrow
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      71 year ago

      When it came to taking credit … he had all the angles covered

    • @EatYouWell
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      51 year ago

      Well, he popularized it, but the Pythagoran theorem was something ancient civilizations had already figured out.

        • @EatYouWell
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          21 year ago

          It’s really just whose discovery spread the fastest. There have been a few instances in history where parallel discoveries happened, but it got named after the guy who got it popularized fastest.

          Plus, the records of the civilization that discovered it were lost for a few millenia. But it’s not the first thing that’s been rediscovered a few times.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          Unless the “documenter” wasn’t a real person.

          The Pythogean Cult is very fun reading.