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Re: tech question NO LBC

To: "Bill L" <pythias@pacifier.com>, <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: tech question NO LBC
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:58:05 -0600
References: <000001c2e9f1$d2501910$2563510c@HAV004> <184403349.20030314054914@pacifier.com>
>(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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