Pythagoras triangle the square of the hypotenuse is equal [to the sum of] the squares of the two other sides"—that is, formula_1. According to a popular legend, after he discovered this theorem, Pythagoras sacrificed an ox, or possibly even a whole "hecatomb", to the gods. Cicero rejected this story as spurious because of the much more widely held belief that Pythagoras forbade blood sacrifices. Porphyry attempted to explain the story by asserting that the ox was actually made of dough. The Pythagorean theorem was known and used by the Babylonians and Indians centuries before Pythagoras, but it is possible that he
Attentat (novel) absorption of a societal concept which has not yet been refuted? Some minor oversights are present in this work. One example is where the author writes, "the square of my hypotenuse was equal to the sum of my right angles," whereas the square of the hypotenuse should be equal to the sum of the squares of the two other sides. In another quote, "it was six o'clock in the morning in Japan therefore 2pm at Ethel's" is erroneous even if it is not specified whether she lives in France or Belgium We do know however that the location is in