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Re:Two Black teens say they have proven 2k-year-old mathemat... by andreareina on Friday March 24, 2023 @10:19PM (#35298512)
> The pair asserts: “We present a new proof of Pythagoras’s Theorem which is based on a fundamental result in trigonometry – the Law of Sines – and we show that the proof is independent of the Pythagorean trig identity sin²x+cos²x=1.” In short, they could prove the theorem using trigonometry and without resorting to circular reasoning.
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