Live data from Hacker News

Surprising Uses of the Pythagorean Theorem

betterexplained.com

11–12 of 12 posts

Re: Surprising Uses of the Pythagorean Theorem

#11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There may be a point here, but I am still uncomfortable with the use of the Pythagorean theorem here. Even if applied to areas only, it seems like a stretch. In fact with this approach one can suggest other identities. For example, if you replace squares with cubes (or circles with spheres), you will have a^3+b^3=c^3. And this clearly has nothing to do with the Pythagorean theorem.

You might want to try that math again; it doesn't work for spheres.

What math?
Post reply on HN