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2024-02-20 00:56:54 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: D35BC5F5E4F17548332E37B607B412240117F16C93D43F2DC90F6DB18D9D1D38
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The Pythagorean theorem has been proven by hundreds of different methods. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED037335.pdf What the girls say they have accomplished is a proof of the theorem based on trigonometry (rather than other kinds of mathematics) which does not require presupposing that the theorem is true. https://meetings.ams.org/math/spring2023se/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/23621 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/24/new-orleans-pythagoras-theorem-trigonometry-prove
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