Comment on this meme goes from acute to obtuse real quick

elegantgoat1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• MxM111@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • elegantgoat1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh yeah! I see, you’re right.

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• EatYouWell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • bdkmshr@monyet.cc ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Documenter that documented their document gets the document credited to documenter

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    • EatYouWell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨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.

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    • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Unless the “documenter” wasn’t a real person.

      The Pythogean Cult is very fun reading.

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      • Vant@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I’m sorry about your head injury.

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