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Surprising Uses of the Pythagorean Theorem (betterexplained.com)
10 points by anandvc on April 4, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


> Suppose you want to see if a large pizza (16 inches) is bigger than two mediums (12 inches). Plug in 16 for C, and 12 for A. It looks like the large pizza can be split into a 12-inch and 10.5-inch pizza, so two-mediums are in fact bigger.

I never thought of applying Pythagorean Theorem here, but it's incredibly useful!


I feel like I need to confirm this independently... I'm going to order some pizza :)




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