Unless the story has some transcendental meaning ...

Only if you're primed to see that.

Don't you think this discussion is tangental to the topic?

Discussing the history of Pythagoras under an article on the history of his most famous theorem?

I think you have a very high bar for relevance.

Do you assume a point exists?

You are free to make approximation like that. Really, whatever floats your boat.

I think that's hyperbolic. It seems like a natural digression. I think you're just being negative.

Put another way, this discussion certainly has more than an infinitesimal relation to the original link.

This seems like a pointless back and forth; you all aren't going to be able to square the circle here.

All math is derivative anyway.