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2024-05-08 20:26:57 UTC - HELPFUL
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The Pythagorean Theorem itself was proven thousands of years ago. Johnson and Jackson did not solve or prove the theorem itself, but rather provided a *new* trigonometric proof of the existing theorem (zimba 2009). https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/2-high-school-students-prove-pythagorean-theorem-heres-what-that-means/ https://www.cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/index.shtml https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED037335.pdf https://forumgeom.fau.edu/FG2009volume9/FG200925.pdf https://www.cut-the-knot.org/pythagoras/TrigProof.shtml
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