... find the hypotenuse or fallen part of the tree. For problem like this the Pythagorean Theorem is the most helpful tool. The only disadvantage is it only works for right triangles. My big disagreement with the Pythagorean Theorem is, it is dysfunctional. Not everything in the world is a right triangle. The Pythagorean Theorem only works for fight ... triangles. For example, if a carpenter puts a latter up on a tilted wall and wants to know how height latter goes. He will have no way of finding that because it is not a ... Pythagorean Theorem is only helpful for select problem and selec...

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... famous theorem, it is quite possible that his most lavish accomplishment is the mathematical basis of musical intervals. Pythagoras's theorem which states that the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangles is equal the sum of the squares of the other two sides was actually said to be thought of by Babylonian mathematicians from earlier times. Plato was very found of ... of geometric principles. Not much is known about what advances in geometry were made between the times of Thales and the Pythagoreans. The Pythagoreans advanced the understanding of not only triangles, but a number o...

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... to cut shapes out of high Intensity colored paper and make different things with them. These shapes have to be certain lengths and widths. Some of these shapes are right triangles and to make sure that I have made them the right size I do the Pythagorean theorem to find out if all the sides are the right size. The Pythagorean theorem is ... ...

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... to cut shapes out of high Intensity colored paper and make different things with them. These shapes have to be certain lengths and widths. Some of these shapes are right triangles and to make sure that I have made them the right size I do the Pythagorean theorem to find out if all the sides are the right size. The Pythagorean theorem is ... ...

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... named after its first observer, Pythagoras, but it was Euclid's insight what made it clear enough to become the basis for a great number of further mathematical discoveries. "In right-angled triangles-, the Alexandrian mathematician tells us, "the square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the right angle-. We set out on ... ...

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