@Zerush@lemmy.ml to Science@lemmy.ml • 1 year agoPythagorean Theorem Found On Clay Tablet 1,000 Years Older Than Pythagoraswww.iflscience.comexternal-linkmessage-square84fedilinkarrow-up1696arrow-down14cross-posted to: technews@radiation.partyscience@beehaw.orghackernews@derp.footechnews@radiation.partynews@lemmy.world
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minus-square@drspod@lemmy.mllinkfedilink10•1 year ago the Pythagorean theorem is a purely intuitive thing everyone does regularly. Excuse me, what?
minus-squareThordros [he/him, comrade/them]linkfedilinkEnglish5•1 year agoThe first person to take a diagonal shortcut while walking understood it.
minus-square@drspod@lemmy.mllinkfedilink14•1 year agoTaking a diagonal shortcut means that you understand a + b > c. That’s a far leap from being able to prove that a^2 + b^2 = c^2.
minus-squareتحريرها كلها ممكنlinkfedilink2•1 year agoIt is if you needed to collect taxes and wanted a way to measure 📐
minus-squareanarchoilluminati [comrade/them]linkfedilink1•1 year agoI take it you haven’t read Plato?
Excuse me, what?
The first person to take a diagonal shortcut while walking understood it.
Taking a diagonal shortcut means that you understand
a + b > c. That’s a far leap from being able to prove thata^2 + b^2 = c^2.It is if you needed to collect taxes and wanted a way to measure 📐
I take it you haven’t read Plato?