Study math for long enough and you will likely have cursed Pythagoras’s name, or said “praise be to Pythagoras” if you’re a bit of a fan of triangles.
But while Pythagoras was an important historical figure in the development of mathematics, he did not figure out the equation most associated with him (a2 + b2 = c2). In fact, there is an ancient Babylonian tablet (by the catchy name of IM 67118) which uses the Pythagorean theorem to solve the length of a diagonal inside a rectangle. The tablet, likely used for teaching, dates from 1770 BCE – centuries before Pythagoras was born in around 570 BCE.
I actually remember seeing that article but I didn’t click on it. Oh well. I really want lemmy to survive. I used to love Google+ and it was sad to see it die a slow death. For a while it was, in my opinion, the best photography community on the web. I figure if people see the same content over as over again they’ll just leave. So I’m trying to post frequently but not just pure crap.