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Pythagorean Theorem Found On Clay Tablet 1,000 Years Older Than Pythagoras (www.iflscience.com)
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[–] Pronell@lemmy.world 24 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I took the opposite tack.

You ain't shit, Pythagoras! You just wrote it down, you didn't figure it out, you absolute fucking fraud. We're taking your immortality back!

[–] IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Quick! Change all the textbooks to “clay tablet theorem”!

[–] maniii@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Why not call it the Summerian Theorem ? Or Arabic/Persian/Philistine Triangulation Theorem ?