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To: BBell

Talk about a clumsy definition?

Pythagoras’ discovery that the sum of the areas of two squares on the sides of two triangle will add up to the area of a square on hypotenuseiscovery that the sum of the areas of two squares on the sides of two triangle will add up to the area of a square on hypotenuse...”

My tenth grade teacher:

Pythagoras’ theorem states that the square of the hypotenuse (the side opposite the right angle) is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides.


17 posted on 06/20/2018 3:55:43 PM PDT by odawg
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To: odawg

Wait... maybe this a common core math!


20 posted on 06/20/2018 4:04:31 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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