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It always seemed weird to me that it would be formally developed so late. Like I’ve taken multiple trigonometry courses and can’t even define trigonometry let alone make sense of most of it, but the Pythagorean theorem is a purely intuitive thing everyone does regularly. The first person to take a diagonal shortcut while walking understood it. It should have been the first thing mathematics codified after basic arithmetic.
the Pythagorean theorem is a purely intuitive thing everyone does regularly.
Excuse me, what?
It is if you needed to collect taxes and wanted a way to measure 📐