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Actual proof released from the two NOLA girls proving Pythagorean theorem

Posted on 4/6/23 at 3:01 pm
Posted by Ingeniero
Baton Rouge
Member since Dec 2013
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Posted on 4/6/23 at 3:01 pm
TikTok mathematician video
Or YouTube link

Obviously wasn't as simple as the media coverage made it seem. I know some people in the original thread were wondering how they did it. They ended up using some infinite series along with trigonometric identities.

Really impressive stuff. And there's your positive OT news for the day
Posted by HempHead
Big Sky Country
Member since Mar 2011
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Posted on 4/6/23 at 3:02 pm to
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some infinite series along with trigonometric identities


Yeah, I totally understand that.
Posted by lsuguy84
Madisonville
Member since Feb 2009
27314 posts
Posted on 4/6/23 at 3:03 pm to
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They ended up using some infinite series along with trigonometric identities


Posted by Chad504boy
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Member since Feb 2005
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Posted on 4/6/23 at 3:07 pm to
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They ended up using some infinite series along with trigonometric identities.



yea, i mean i didn't see any other way to it.
Posted by tigerskin
Member since Nov 2004
46718 posts
Posted on 4/6/23 at 3:08 pm to
I tried to listen to the video, I really did

Anyways congrats to the students
Posted by 427Nova
Member since Sep 2022
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Posted on 4/6/23 at 3:09 pm to
Sure. I’m suppose to believe 2 teenagers out thought the greatest mathematicians in world. Guys with 180 IQ’s. This isn’t Good Will Hunting.
Posted by saint tiger225
San Diego
Member since Jan 2011
48950 posts
Posted on 4/6/23 at 3:09 pm to
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They ended up using some infinite series along with trigonometric identities.
I did this same thing in NOLA trying to pee on a urinal cake while drunk.
Posted by BigPerm30
Member since Aug 2011
32033 posts
Posted on 4/6/23 at 3:10 pm to
Please secure these young ladies and their future before they get swept up in hood rat shite
Posted by dallastigers
Member since Dec 2003
10594 posts
Posted on 4/6/23 at 3:13 pm to
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Obviously wasn't as simple as the media coverage made it seem. I know some people in the original thread were wondering how they did it. They ended up using some infinite series along with trigonometric identities.


The media didn’t make it out to be simple. They either just accepted it or didn’t include any of the work or proof.

The Pythagorean theorem has been proven many times using non-trig methods. Using trig to prove it has always been considered using trig to prove itself. They presented at conference to proving it using Trig but somehow without the inherent circular issues of basically using trig to prove itself correct.

“Trigonometric identities are equalities that involve trigonometric functions and are true for every value of the occurring variables for which both sides of the equality are defined.”

One of the trigonometric identities is the Pythagorean identity - “an identity expressing the Pythagorean theorem in terms of trigonometric functions, but it has others including sine and cosine for triangle identities.

Just avoiding Pythagorean theorem’s trig identity while using other trig and needing to use calculus push this outside of being a pure trig “proof”.

Great stuff but not disproving over 2000 years of math.


This post was edited on 4/6/23 at 7:55 pm
Posted by Buck_Rogers
Member since Jul 2013
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Posted on 4/6/23 at 3:23 pm to
Doesn't a tape measure already prove it?
Posted by ShootingsBricks4Life
Member since May 2017
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Posted on 4/6/23 at 3:24 pm to
If anyone is interested they go to St. Mary's Academy....not Jesuit.
Posted by Riggle
Member since Feb 2013
4593 posts
Posted on 4/6/23 at 3:27 pm to
Really cool construction
Posted by PaulBurbank007
Member since Nov 2013
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Posted on 4/6/23 at 3:27 pm to
Not gonna lie I was expecting to see a couple hood rats twerking on a Polaris sidewinder or something of that nature
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
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Posted on 4/6/23 at 3:27 pm to
I have two separate smartass comments that I will put in one comment:

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Obviously wasn't as simple as the media coverage made it seem.

Believing the general media is capable of understanding and explaining complex mathematics is foolish.

And....
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trigonometric identities

I don't particularly give a shite what someone identifies as.
This post was edited on 4/6/23 at 3:28 pm
Posted by aTmTexas Dillo
East Texas Lake
Member since Sep 2018
23984 posts
Posted on 4/6/23 at 3:30 pm to
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two NOLA girls proving Pythagorean theorem

More proof men should just be tradesmen.
Posted by QJenk
Atl, Ga
Member since Jan 2013
17574 posts
Posted on 4/6/23 at 3:30 pm to
I'm gonna be honest, I watched the entirety of that video, and I don't have the slightest clue of what that guy was talking about.

But congrats to those girls.
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
157336 posts
Posted on 4/6/23 at 3:31 pm to
I've always had faith in Pythagoras, I don't need proof
Posted by el Gaucho
He/They
Member since Dec 2010
59164 posts
Posted on 4/6/23 at 3:31 pm to
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Sure. I’m suppose to believe 2 teenagers out thought the greatest mathematicians in world.

Anything is possible with black girl magic
Posted by Kafka
I am the moral conscience of TD
Member since Jul 2007
157336 posts
Posted on 4/6/23 at 3:36 pm to
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Anything is possible with black girl magic
do you mean a BLACK MAGIC WOMAN for the Santana reference you fricking half wit???





























Yes I know Fleetwood Mac did the original version. Yes, the one with Peter Green, the only one that matters. frick you anyway for thinking you could correct me.
Posted by Epaminondas
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Member since Jul 2020
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Posted on 4/6/23 at 3:41 pm to
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I’m suppose to believe 2 teenagers out thought the greatest mathematicians in world. Guys with 180 IQ’s.
Apparently, a lot of dumbasses here believe it.
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