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Pythagoras’s oxen revisited

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it is said that when Pythagoras discovered his famous theorem, in a right-angled triangle the squares of the smaller sides sum up to the square of the hypoteneuse, he sacrificed a hundred oxen to thank the gods.

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Albinus, HJ. Pythagoras’s oxen revisited. The Mathematical Intelligencer 25, 41–43 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02984847

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