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this meme goes from acute to obtuse real quick (midwest.social)

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[–] elegantgoat1@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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

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[–] MxM111@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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[–] elegantgoat1@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Oh yeah! I see, you're right.

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 years ago

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

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[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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[–] bdkmshr@monyet.cc 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Documenter that documented their document gets the document credited to documenter

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[–] DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Unless the "documenter" wasn't a real person.

The Pythogean Cult is very fun reading.

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[+] Vant@lemm.ee 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years 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.

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