Study math for long enough and you will likely have cursed Pythagoras’s name, or said “praise be to Pythagoras” if you’re a bit of a fan of triangles.
But while Pythagoras was an important historical figure in the development of mathematics, he did not figure out the equation most associated with him (a2 + b2 = c2). In fact, there is an ancient Babylonian tablet (by the catchy name of IM 67118) which uses the Pythagorean theorem to solve the length of a diagonal inside a rectangle. The tablet, likely used for teaching, dates from 1770 BCE – centuries before Pythagoras was born in around 570 BCE.
oh, hundreds
try 1.
Bakelite was trash.
We didn’t have a massive source of polypeptides to make plastics out of before the discovery of oil so where did you get your ‘hundreds’ from?
I wasn’t being serious.
That’s very hard to tell, and that’s on you.
I’m comfortable with that.