Saturday, 28 September 2013

Animation showing that in a Pythagorean triple, the square of the length of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of...


Animation showing that in a Pythagorean triple, the square of the length of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the lengths of the other two sides.

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6 comments:

  1. Praveen Kamat29 September 2013 at 00:15

    Excellent animation !!! ....

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  2. Jeeyoung Kim29 September 2013 at 01:02

    This is not a good visualization because it does not explain "why" this is the case.

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  3. Frank Nestel29 September 2013 at 02:41

    And it is only the 3^2 + 4^2 = 5^2 special case. There was a more general applicable kicking around here somewhere.

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  4. Andrew Pa29 September 2013 at 03:25

    Great animation about square numbers, thanks.

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  5. Ryan Knight29 September 2013 at 06:24

    great animation!  can you make one for x^n + y^n = z^n ? ;)

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  6. joel méndez29 September 2013 at 20:17

    One more excellent visual (of so many) to show the meaning of the Pythagorean Theorem!

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