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Celebrate Black Greatness: Two Black Female Students Solve Pythagorean Theorem (2000 Years Unsolved)
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True Blue Moon
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These concepts make my head hurt so I'm out of this thread but congrats ladies
“Imagine you have a triangle that looks like the corner of a piece of paper, where one angle is a perfect right angle (like 90 degrees). The Pythagorean theorem tells us that if you take the two shorter sides, square their lengths (multiply each by itself), and then add those two numbers together, you'll get the same result as squaring the length of the longest side (the one opposite the right angle).
Usually, people prove this with pictures or by using other math rules. But these two students found a new way to prove it using something called the Law of Sines, which is another math rule that compares the sides of the triangle with the angles opposite those sides.
Their proof is special because it doesn’t use the usual way of thinking about the Pythagorean theorem. Instead, it uses a different idea, showing that the relationship between the sides of the triangle is true in a new and clever way. This makes their discovery really cool and important!
Imagine you have a triangle with three sides and three corners (angles). The Law of Sines is a rule that helps us understand how the sides and angles are related to each other.
Here's how it works:
1. **Pick a side**: Take one side of the triangle and look at the angle directly opposite it.
2. **Find the ratio**: Divide the length of that side by the sine (a special math function) of its opposite angle.
3. **Do this for all sides**: Repeat this for all three sides of the triangle. The Law of Sines says that these ratios will all be the same.
In simple terms, if you know two sides and one angle of a triangle, you can use the Law of Sines to find the other angles and sides.
For example, if one side of your triangle is 5 units long and the angle opposite it is 30 degrees, you can use the Law of Sines to figure out the lengths of the other sides if you know their opposite angles. It's like a special rule that helps us solve puzzles about triangles!” - ChatGPT
IsThatBrothaMouzone?
Veteran
Just here to bump this Blaxcellence!
Congratulations again ladies
Congratulations again ladies
@Wig Twistin Season we already covered these brilliant minds
That’s the new pathways being formed in your neural networks, don’t fight it—embrace it
RickyDiBiase
aka Hash Brown Hands
Love to see my people knockout stuff like this
skokiaan
African original
They got their money and scholarships yet..they not supposed to accumulate any student debt
I love the high five.
They're both on scholarship at university, one at Xavier University in New Orleans, the other at LSU. One is doing pharmacy and the other is doing engineering.