...although his writings have been lost. The theorem states that the sum of the squares of the two legs of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse (the longest side). Not much is known ' about Pythagoras, other than that he Iwas a mathematician and...

...high school trigonometry. The Pythagorean theorem states that the sum of the squares of the two sides of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse. This means that the line running diagonally across a 5 meter square will be 7.07 meters. Rather than...

...the hypotenuse itself will equal 2. The square of either of the sides forming the right angle of the triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse minus the square of the other side. That is, if the base be 4 and the hypotenuse be 5, the square of the perpendicular will equal...