>(notice it's the pythatgorean, not pythagoras's theorem, as >he was dead
before the formula was discovered by the
>mathematical school that he founded)
That is rather open to debate. The first known statement of this principle
was on Babylonian tablets that pre-dated Pythagoras by 1000 years or so.
Pythagoras' own "school" practised such a high degree of secrecy that it
really is not possible to tell how much was known to them when.
David Lieb
RWA Midgets
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