You had the A,B and C on the triangles on the wrong lines A + B should be the shorter sides
But actually I've never seen that formula explained using actual squares drawn off the triangle. Which is a brilliant way to show the concept.
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Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Tue 15 Sep 2009, 15:28,
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can't believe i didn't spot that
i'm half tempted to delete it and reupload it now... but my other half is tempted to not be arsed :)
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mutated monty, Tue 15 Sep 2009, 15:38,
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I enjoyed Genius btw, but I probably wouldn't have realised it was on if not for tuning in to see your contributions
It's a good old-skool kind of tv show with most of it being amusing banter about silly stuff.
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Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Tue 15 Sep 2009, 15:47,
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yeah it wasn't all that bad
as tv shows go. I'd have lingered less on each idea and have more of them instead maybe
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mutated monty, Tue 15 Sep 2009, 15:56,
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I like the obsessive Dave Gorman too, he likes to take things to their illogical conclusion so
maybe that's why they linger that long.
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Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Tue 15 Sep 2009, 16:04,
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A *very* old geometry book of mine had it like this...
Work out the areas of the triangles, the big square and the 'C' square, and Pythagoras's theory sort of falls out of it.
I'd only ever learnt it by wrote before...
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moogthedog, Tue 15 Sep 2009, 16:05,
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These are the exact numbers you'd need to start a recursive gif like that one of the screaming kid
from the Goonies
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Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Tue 15 Sep 2009, 16:22,
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When I created it
I thought that the outer square looked skew-whiff, even though you can *see* they're straight to the edge of the jpg...
Mnrrrrrg
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moogthedog, Tue 15 Sep 2009, 16:34,
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