Posted on 06/20/2018 2:55:37 PM PDT by BBell
There’s nothing new under the sun.
Pie are squared? No. Pie are round.
You don’t have to know Pythagorean geometry to make a perfect square or rectangle.
You just have to be able to measure.
Put a post in the ground.
Tie one end of a length of rope to that post.
Stretch the rope out to its full length.
Walk in perfect circle.
So Pythagoras really was WAY WAY “ahead of his time...”
I’m confused...
Hillary Clinton already proved that something can be named before its namesake is known.
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Exactly. They simply observed and measured.
ping
In before the Spinal Tap reference.
“Sum of the areas of two squares on the sides of two triangle will add up to the area of a square on hypotenuse”
I am not familiar with the “area” of the two sides and the “area” of the hypotenuse. Would that depend on how thick of a lead was in a pencil you used? The thicker the line, the greater the area?
Amazing....
Nigel was confused
Most carpenters know this as 3/4/5 rule.
3×3=9
4×4=16
9+16=25=5×5
yeah yeah....
Maybe its just that human brains are wired for certain proportions (as to whats pretty or acceptable) and that its a genetically based preference for “normality” in mates (Socio-Biology 101) A similar study would probably find that such ‘ratios’ are found in what humans consider as ‘beauty’.
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.
Oh, I get the math of the Pythagorean theorem. But the writer was referring to the length of each side as the AREA of that side.
That theorem has nothing to do with calculating the areas of the sides. It really doesn’t.
Both diagonals need to be equal. Use a rope to measure. If one diagonal is longer than the other, rotate the side until they are equal. Then you are square.
Wait... maybe this a common core math!
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