Pythagoras Definition and 38 Threads

Why did Pythagoras fear beans? Somebody told me two years ago it was for the same reason he bought only Ukrainian wheat from Whole Foods. Radiation poisoning. Two years since and I still haven't figured what he meant.

Here is the link. https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/BGH/sincos.html Sorry just a little rusty on Pythagoras theorem. I mean the formula still holds but in order to find the opposite and the adjacent the opposite becomes the adjacent and vice versa .

I can do question a but not b nor c. Any help would be greatly appreciated

i know its pretty basic but please give some insight for triangle law of vector addition and pythgoras theorem. becuase ofcourse if you use traingle law to find resultant it will be different from what is pythagoras theorem

In the book 'ZERO THE BIOGRAPHY OF A DANGEROUS IDEA' Charles Seife says, "Because ratios were the key to understanding nature, the Pythagoreans and later Greek Mathematicians spent much of their energy investigating their properties. Eventually, they categorized proportions into 10 different...

hi everyone, I would like say that there are lots of proofs related to pythagoras theorem in a flat space, but When I searched it's general form I have not found something worthwhile. Besides, I also involved myself to have a nice proof of it, as a result I have not any valuable or very close...

Homework Statement In a diagram, P, Q and R lie on a straight line and angle SQR is a right angle. The lengths PS, SR and RP are a, b and c cm respectively and QR is x cm. Use algebra to show that x = (b^2 + c^2 - a^2) / 2c Homework Equations and attempt at a solution[/B] Do I need to use...

Hello, so I have a question that states (these aren't the actual measurements but they are around about the same, I can't remember the exact numbers so I made these up, this way I could apply the same to the actual numbers) an object being 4km above me, 1.4km to the north of me, and 2km to the...

Homework Statement Does [sin(θ/2)-cos(θ/2)]^2 equal 1 for all values of θ? I need to figure this out to solve a physics problem. Homework Equations sin^2(A)+cos^2(A)=1 The Attempt at a Solution [sin(θ/2)-cos(θ/2)]^2 =sin^2(θ/2)+cos^2(θ/2) =1 But this isn't what I get when I put...

Take any given point on the perimeter of a (A x B) rectange and then draw a line from that point to another point on one of the three remaining sides of the rectangle. What is the average length of the line? Well, the answer to that question involves integrals like this: \int_0^A \int_0^B...

what makes Pythagoras theorm true? is it because variance of a straight line is zero?

Hi, I need help with an explanation of how to deal with squareroots when solving equations. E.g. Look at the uploaded bmp.file and solve for x. Please I would like to have a full step by step method on how to deal with this type of equations in general. Thank you

Hello, I was just going through some writings on the web reg.Lorentz transformation. Even considering the derivative factor,d, is anyway Lorentz transformation is some way, linked with Pythagoras' theorem? Correct me if I am wrong? -- Shounak

Homework Statement Find the coordinates of the points lying on the y-axis, P(0, y), when the distance between points P and A(5, 4) is 13. There is a diagram. Point B(0, 4) is also given. You can probably imagine how it looks like. Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution...

Given that a=(a1,a2,a3) and b=(b1,b2,b3) by applying the Pythagoras rule, Prove that a1b1+a2b2+a3b3=0 if a and b perpendicular The Scalar product a.b = |a||b|CosQ -------------(1) if two vectors are perpendicular; Q=90degrees then CosQ=0; from (1) a.b=0 (a1,a2,a3).(b1,b2,b3)=0 a1b1+a2b2+a3b3=0...

please help me :( i want to make signature scheme by pythagoras theorem

If c=\sqrt{a^{2}+b^{2}} would i be correct in saying c=|a+ib| ?

Hi... It is an easy to see fact that, instead of moving along the hypotenuse of a right triangle, one starts from the lower corner and reach the upper corner moving only along the directions of the other two sides, i.e only vertically and horizontally and not diagonally...the distance moved...

Homework Statement I need to simplify vf = [(vcosx/2)^2+((2v-vsinx)/2)^2)]^1/2 as far as possible Homework Equations The Attempt at a Solution vf = [(vcosx/2)^2+((2v-vsinx)/2)^2)]^1/2 = [(v^2cos^2(x)+v^2sin^2(x)+4v^2+2vsinx)/2]^1/2 = [(v^2(1)+4v^2-2vsinx)/2]^1/2 ---- using...

Hi, Homework Statement I'm designing a C++ program to simulate the operation of a steel processing warehouse. Part of my code requires me to calculate the time it takes for a crane to move certain distances (mainly diagonal ones) across a large shelving rack. Homework Equations The...

Homework Statement Hello; I am trying to solve what must be a ridiculously simple problem involving Pythagoras’ theorem and some simple geometry but I seem to be missing something. The problem is this: A farmer has a square field and has set up a drinking trough at a point in the middle...

Homework Statement Hi. I'm looking at Euclid's proof of the Pythagoras theorem. After cutting the square of the hypotenuse I don't understand why the area of the left rectangle (of the hypotenuse square) is equal to the area of the left square? Homework Equations The Attempt at...

Homework Statement Basically we are given the coordinates for A=(13.0492, 30.9498, 9.01115) and C=(1.97687, 4.68868, 17.3632) which are two top corners of a cube that is sunk in the ground partway (specifically it's based on the cube near the Melbourne museum). But we don't know where the...

hi... We generally use the Pythagoras formula for distance between two points in 2D, when the Cartesian co-ordinates are given... One directly extends it to 3D..having the distance going as \sqrt{x^{2}+y^{2}+z^{2}}... For a curved co-ordinate system, we have distances measured by...

Hi, I have a really stupid question :smile: suppose the base and perpendicular are both length 1 (whatever units) then the hypotenuse's length comes out to be SquareRoot of 2 but square root of 2 is 1.41421356.... (not a fixed number) so that means if i physically measure the...

I understand the greek theory of the universe (Sphere's within sphere's within sphere's) but other than the fact the universe is based on mathematics, is there any other variations in the belief of the universe from the pythagoras?

Homework Statement The two sides of a stepladder are of length 2m and 1.85m. When fully opened, the longer side is inclined at 65° to the horizontal. Find the distance apart of the feet of the step ladder. Homework Equations Sin Rule & Pythagoras? The Attempt at a Solution I had a go but I...

Hello everybody I have looked everywhere for some good guides, so the question is: You probably know the Fibonacci sequence (1,1,2,3,5,8…) but there is a lesser-known sequence called (Pythagoras stairs) generated by a similar recursion formula. This is a sequence of pairs (Xn,Yn)...

I have wondered about this for a while now and can anyone tell me the proof behind A^2+B^2=C^2?

Can anyone explain to me why Pythagoras' Theorem governs the rate of change, of mass, length and time within accelertated bodies? It's a simple theorem learned by most children by the age of eleven, so one would expect the answer to this question to be quite simple as well.

Hey guys, I am studying atm and looking at this book: "Introduction to Hilbert Space" by N.Young. For those who have the book, I am referring to pg 32, theorem 4.4. Theorem If x1,...,xn is an orthogonal system in an inner product space then, ||Sum(j=1 to n) xj ||^2 = Sum(j=1 to...

Base 10 Anomaly An applied 49-year study into the origin of pi and the Base 10 number system resulted in the finding of a highly anomalous formula. Essentially, the finding derives from the perfect ratios (0:1:1:2:3:4) given by Pythagoras who we know studied and perhaps taught in the...

Why is the absolute distance sqrt(x^2 + y^2)? I've found several proofs on the internet but none really tell me much. I believe I have noticed something about pythagoras theorem and that is it allows all inertial reference frames in physics to be equivalent. In physics you can describe...

Hello. Could anyone help me with a few questions that I'm stuck on? Any suggestions would be much appreciatd. 1) A man 2m tall walks away from a lampost whose light is 5m above the ground. If he walks at a speed of 1.5 m/s, at what rate is his shadow growing when he is 10m from the lampost...

I found this beauty and just had to post it here. It is on the second page of the following link: http://www.physics.smu.edu/%7Eolness/cteqpp/DimReg.5.pdf The rest of the file has to do with dimensional regularization, so you will need some more background to understand what is going on...

Pythagoras has a bad name for being a mystic he is known to have founded some kind of religious community in southern Italy where they reverenced the proportions of the universe or something (if you know more factual detail please fill in some) Also I have seen the opinion stated that he...

http://www.ies.co.jp/math/java/geo/pitha1/pitha1-2.gif This is one of the many pythagorean proofs and I don't understand why A1=A2 and A4=A3? Can someone explain this to me please?

to work out a traingle side e.g. 52 is it we first times the 3 by itself to get 9 and then we times the 4 x 4 to get 16. then we take away the difference to get 52? 9 + 16 = 25 Formula 32 + 42 = 52 is this correct?