• @starman2112@sh.itjust.works
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    71 year ago

    But Pythagoras hated triangles with irrational hypotenuses. A triangle with leg lengths of 3 and 4 units? Beautiful. A triangle with two 1 unit legs? Die

    • 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@lemmy.world
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      51 year ago

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

      • @bdkmshr
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        81 year ago

        Documenter that documented their document gets the document credited to documenter

        • @EatYouWell@lemmy.world
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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.

    • @smeg@feddit.uk
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      51 year ago

      That’s not a prism, it’s a tetrahedron, the most triangular of the solids!