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The famous Greek mathematician Pythagoras is credited with the discovery illustrated on the next slide concerning the three sides of any right triangle (a triangle with one angle equal to 90 degrees). Pythagoras was a philosopher and a mystic as well as a mathematician. For more on Pythagoras go to:

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pythagoras.html

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