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For centuries, students have learned that in a right triangle, the square of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the other two sides. Known as the Pythagorean Theorem, this ...
In one of their proofs, the two students took the definition of calculating with triangles to its extreme by filling one larger triangle with sequences of smaller triangles and using calculus to ...
A high school teacher didn't expect a solution when she set a 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem problem in front of her ...
A high school teacher didn't expect a solution when she set a 2,000-year-old Pythagorean Theorem problem in front of her ...
In a new peer-reviewed study, Ne'Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson outlined 10 ways to solve the Pythagorean theorem using trigonometry, including a proof they discovered in high school.